Conscious or unconscious restrictions may produce art.
They are very useful as they make choices become simple and easy.
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Restrictions could be for example:
Producing music in mono (early Beatles etc?)
Producing music only with electrically generated sounds (OMD?)
Producing music only with samples (Depeche Mode?)
Learning music on a broken piano where only rightmost and left most keys operate (Arvo Part?)
Musicians in a band playing a different instrument than the instrument they have learnt (Brian Eno?)
Recoding only with the instruments on the right side of the room (Brian Eno?)
Recording only with battery operated instruments
Recording with a broken cassette or reel to reel recorder where only one track records etc.
Perhaps the best example of a restriction is the scales themselves. From all the 12 notes (both white and black) of a piano keyboard only 7 are normally allowed. For example on Just Hold Me - Maria during some time of the song the scale or key is A Dorian. This means only A B C D E F# G is allowed. At other times the A minor is the key meaning the notes allowed are those coming from all the white keys ie the 7 natural La Si Do Re Mi Fa Sol. For example at some point the song plays F7 ie F A C E or F major 7th.
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