This is how I look at (or listen to)  sounds. What you can make from them, rather than what they are. What they are made of, the textures, the rhythms etc.

We had this school project where we had to make a stopmotion video, and include some other things (this is why there's stop motion and close-ups in the edit, but it's the sound that matters anyways).

I ended up setting up some more rules to the project:
All audio is created from the audio from the video-clip, no other sources added.

So basically just a lot of granular processing, cutting, pasting, looping, resampling, repitching, rince and repeat.