on creating...

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In general, do you find that your ideas come first, and then you figure out the tools to realize them, or do your ideas come out of the capabilities of your tools?

Is one way better than another?

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[pied-piper70.livejournal.com]

If I'm working on just a music piece out of thin air, the ideas I come up with are, most times, based on the tools I have in my hands or at my disposal: guitar, keyboard, software, whatever. Often, too, the idea is germinated by another outside source, be it a sound, a noise, a rhythm, a sampled beat, a chord shape, a musical accident...Sometimes there is a concept that I have in mind that I want to do, but with no actual musical ideas until the tools are in place to realize that concept; then once the tools are in place, my fingers start moving (or the mouse starts clicking) and the ideas roll in automatically...

However, when it comes to scoring or other projects like that, my ideas come first, and then I find the tools to utilize those ideas (or at least approximate them)...This is a oftentimes frustrating endeavor, especially when I don't have certain items or programs or skillsets at my disposal...although this is also why I like (even prefer) working on outside projects cuz it gets me to think outside my little box...

Tools...I wish I had more tools...You can never have too many tools...