{"id":3007,"date":"2026-10-13T11:12:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2026-10-13T11:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:12:36","slug":"creative-constraints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/creative-constraints\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative constraints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI think that we&#8217;re paralyzed by decisions in everything right now. [For example], I can have any sounding kick drum in the world I want on any track, which means I can spend all day \u2014 and any producer or author knows this \u2014 you&#8217;ll listen to like 80 different kick drums to find the one, instead of writing the song. [Whereas] old school hip hop or anything, they had whatever they had, and they made the track work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love that idea. Even so much [that] I intentionally limit what I can do \u2014 so that forces me to be in a creative mind space as opposed to being in just an analytical mind space.\u201d<\/p>\n<cite>Seth Paul (via <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/geekwire\/id427374434?i=1000794665268\">GeekWire podcast<\/a> Oct 10, 2026)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think that we&#8217;re paralyzed by decisions in everything right now. [For example], I can have any sounding kick drum in the world I want on any track, which means I can spend all day \u2014 and any producer or author knows this \u2014 you&#8217;ll listen to like 80 different kick drums to find the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/creative-constraints\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Creative constraints&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3009,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}