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I'd say before you start making noise get a grasp of various techniques in composition. They don't have to be particularly complex ones, but a better undertstanding of making music, rather than making noise, will potentially work to your advantage if you intend to progress. You can make noise in so many ways; it really is that easy. Your best friend is a good recorder, so you can capture the majority of enviromental sounds around you, which you can then manipulate into ''controlled'' freakouts. Using a computer is perfectly fine, but if you want to stand out from the crowd you'll need to start working on your own preferences in how things should sound, rather than just emulate what's been done by others. In other words, do make noise but make it with a musical mind/soul, rather than just channeling some aggression. That will naturally come out if it's meant to be there.
One good method of practice to decide if pedals are fitting into what you do is to familiarise yourself with the different sounds that various objects make when you hit them with your hands or with other objects. That gives you an idea of how much you can get out of them before you resort to the help of alien (figure of speech here, since pedals are often used in banal and unimaginative ways) sounds.
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