Music is like a language we knew before our birth, its intimacy both surprising and obvious in turn.1
I magine this scenario. An auditorium is filled with music students. A large projection screen displays an image from an obscure video game level. None of the students have seen the image before. The lecturer asks, “How would you score this level? What would your music sound like?” The students begin calling out ideas—specific instruments, harmonies, rhythmic patterns, mixing processes, etc. The group’s ideas are written down as they come, raw, unscreened and unedited.
When the list is complete the lecturer continues, “So according to the ideas you have just generated, the music should sound like … ...
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