The Importance of Culture in Composing

I wanted to make things that were, it sort of made sense to me and that aligned properly with my ideas of what those cultures are, rather than the language themselves. The songs that we've done have been created in various ways and means. Some of them began with thinking about the instruments that they would develop, especially culturally as, you know, what their society is based on. For instance, one society is very imperialistic, militaristic. And so I wanted to create instruments that would be used like for battlefields, for kind of marches and drum stuff. So I had them based around brass but then considering the limitations and pros and cons was then kind of breaking that down into music