Building products & writing music

Building products and writing music have always felt very similar to me. In both cases, you're working, either alone or with a team, to create a new experience with the goal of providing some value to an audience, be that utility, an evocation of an emotion or insight, or simply a way, as Shklovsky would have it, to "make the stone stony." Both products and music are an expression of structure and form, and both articulate a vision of an imagined order.