• prompting unexpected connections
• supporting bisociation (The Act of Creation)
• promoting new "creative paths"

  if there are paths that users often take (...) tell them when they are making common creative moves, challenge them to find an uncommon path

  — Casual Creators - Kate Compton

• following a "sense of beauty"
• "responding" to inputs instead of "processing" them (Tools as Collaborators)
  • Hainbach in one of his videos describes how working with Bastl Thyme is like working with a collaborator with his own ideas

• Idea Collider
• Novelty Search
• Orca and other Esolangs
  • it's not a tool through which I'd personally compose a track, but one that promotes different approach to music, and a different way of looking at the tools I already have
  • a great example of End-User Programming Should be Task-Oriented
  • it also seems to be the result, and antithesis of how Fixating on Solution Aesthetics can Lead to Solving Wrong Problems
• Dadaism paper bag poems
• Oblique Strategies

The music isn't in the piano.

— Alan Kay

• maybe the music is in the piano, at least a bit? - we build and tune pianos in a very specific way, to support making music, and these Tools are Building Us
• Gordon Brander argues that looking through a Cybernetic lens, the music is in a feedback loop between the piano and the player