Theory does inform the process, but it's not the reason *why* certain things happen in the music I write and the pictures I make. For me, aspects of theory are a tool that I use to explain or express an idea that is already there, as opposed to playing around with theoretical ideas and submitting to the result. In most every case, I'm already hearing and seeing in my head what I want a certain thing to sound like, or look like, so the theory can come in as a shortcut if I apply it accurately to a thought.

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