I want to talk about music a bit, my relationship to it & how I've approached producing it, with the added note that i am not very experienced there.
I'll preface this by mentioning that I am inspired by this: https://patches.vizor.io/machinedrum/ocean-of-thought (cw: hypnotic induction)
Writing and music have been two sides of the same coin for me, and I'm not sure how i could be a writer without music. Music trances me, and tells me stories in a way that only music can. chords and harmony and layers from so many types of instruments that spark emotions in our brains and play with our associations to paint pictures in sound traveling through the air. Empathetic, communicative.
It's magic, honestly, and I had this opinion looong before I was ever spiritual.
I take the scenes I see playing out to music and I record them. At times, I feel more like a field reporter than an author, with the paracosm as my field. On the other end, I'm not good with actual terminology or any left-brain approach to music/sound. I approach it like I would be reverse-engineering the process, telling stories that I have in my mind's eye.