I was lately much, much, much thinking about tools. We have so many tools! Now compare tools to instuments. In a very cheesy trailer about a DVD of Till Brönner he said a sentence that engraved into my brain. He said, that it can take quite a while to find the proper instrument, where you know: that is my instrument. I think the same applies to digital tools. I spent most of the time this year to get into new tools. Some of them I really love, others I don’t, although you can make theoretically the same things with them.

This is not only an artistically question. Even workers or researchers have to have their *own* tools fitting their workflow. Therefore we need flexible standarts and formats like xml, gif, midi or mp3. I think it is very irresponsible to force people to tools, even when they are “certified standarts”, like Microsoft Office or Apple iTunes. The freedom of choice for tools must be a basic right for people working with computers.