When creating music, I tend to approach it more as “painting” sound as opposed to “composing”. For me, this is a better analogy for what I do. I find my self very attracted to creating mood through sound “textures”. If we consider it, “texture” is a very tactile and/or visual term. It’s important in painting.
And while I’m not really thinking in visual colors when creating, I sometimes get the sense that I’m using a paint brush to create a music track’s landscape. Sound is just color that the ears can hear and these colors can be combined in an almost limitless array.