Creative Process

What I learned about the creative process...

Throughout the Art Scholars program curriculum, I was introduced to various lessons and teachings in creativity and art. Most of the lessons, I was already familiar with, just not very active in practicing and participating in the lessons outside of class. One of these lessons that I initially overlooked but decided to use as an important factor of my project was the lessons of constraints inciting creativity within Art. During CPSA250, this was one of the items that was recommended to scholars to research and to analyze how it incites creativity through limits. The process basically states that the more limited you are, the more you will think outside the box in your creative process. "When options are limited, people tend to generate more varied solutions" (Marguc Förster, & Van Kleef 2011). At first, I didn’t think much of it, but I quickly realized that through more research and understanding what these constraints can be, I’ve already been using constraints for my own project toward inciting creativity. I participated in this effort through my limited and strict sample selection for the beats for the project. As previously mentioned, I only used Latin records and sounds as the primary sound for the beats. Finding samples that would work with hip-hop and still sound recognizable was very difficult but a fun challenge, as it pushed my music production technique to its limits. I’ve warped, shifted, and construed samples and sounds to their very limits to get the perfect sound I wanted for my project, and it was interesting to see how these constraints could push me to these results.

References

Marguc, Janina, et al. “Stepping back to See the Big Picture: When Obstacles Elicit Global Processing.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 101, no. 5, 2011, pp. 883–901, https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025013. Accessed 13 May 2023.

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