Music, software, and sculpting software

I should put out a disclaimer that although I was in a band for a couple of years, I'm hardly a musician. I played guitar and sang in a three piece punk rock outfit, but I was never one of those talented musicians. I can't tune by ear, I can barely improvise, and I sing from my throat (the wrong way to do it).

I first heard about the brain composition of musicians on a Radiolab story. Digging a little deeper, I've found several articles that detail the relationships between creating software and creating music. There's even a book on the subject. I heard it again on .Net rocks in an episode with Bob Martin.

I won't repeat what others have written, but in general the idea is that as a musician you are putting difference pieces of music together and make them fit, and that there are different shapes and patterns that need to be combined into a singular piece of music. Much is the same in software.