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Even highly-influenced artists can leave out a pioneer. I recently saw a band that was playing microtonal prog rock, and they didn't list Harry Partch as an influence. When I look back on all the creative things that I’ve done in my life, it’s always been shaped by things that I learned subsequently. One of the exercises that I used to give to some of my music students was to open a music dictionary at random and start to investigate one of the items on the page. This is something that I did myself do a long time ago. I think it’s a good way to branch out and start to be more curious, which transforms the work going forward. What you want is to co-evolve with the work.