Moving Quickly with Compositional Chains

When you find a more powerful tool, it’s hard to avoid using it. We like to think of this as the ‘if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail’ syndrome, but the fact of the matter is - I have plenty of tools. It’s just that some are more powerful and it's hard not to use them.

Last night, I was playing noise music at an art space with a friend, and I met a couple of other guys who were doing interesting work. One of them had done a bit of programming and was excited about the...