| Influences | ::Film Composers::
Bernard Herrmann, Tôru Takemitsu, Ennio Morricone, Fumio Hayasaka, Nino Rota, Jerry Goldsmith, Maurice Jarre, Masaru Satô, Zbigniew Preisner, Eduard Artemyev, Georges Delerue, Angelo Badalamenti, Howard Shore, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Christopher Young, Joe Hisaishi, Dario Marianelli, Michael Nyman, Hikaru Hayashi, Miklós Rózsa, Alberto Iglesias, Jon Brion, Peer Raben, Lalo Schiffrin, Wojciech Kilar, John Williams, Thomas Newman, Jeff & Mychael Danna, Trevor Jones, Philip Glass, Elmer Bernstein, Tan Dun, Clint Mansell, Alexandre Desplat, Kenji Kawai, Gabriel Yared, Shigeru Umebayashi, James Newton-Howard. VG composers: Matt Uelmen, Jeremy Soule, Ben Houge, Michael Hoenig
::Autonomous Composers::
Stravinsky, Debussy, J.S. Bach, Perotin, Frank Zappa, Tôru Takemitsu, Khachaturian, Bela Bartok, Gyorgy Ligeti, Beethoven, Steve Reich, Sofia Gubaidulina, Jacob ter Veldhuis, Guillaume de Machault, Satie, Alexander Skrjabin, Claudio Monteverdi, Kryztof Penderecki, Francesco Landini, Mussorgsky, Berio, John Adams, Tan Dun, Maurice Ravel, Mahler, Shostakovich, Chopin, George Crumb, Berlioz, Arvo Pärt, Louis Andriessen, Olivier Messiaen, Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Cage, Giya Kancheli, Charles Ives, Kaija Saariaho, Claude Vivier, Prokofiev, Theo Loevendie
::Artists::
Djivan Gasparyan, John Coltrane, Ernst Reijsiger, Mingus, Ali Farka Touré, Adrian Belew, Miles Davis, Cachao, Jaco Pastorius, Bismillah Khan, Tom Waits, Tim & Jeff Buckley, Thelonius Monk, Youssou n'Dour, Erkan Ogur, Nick Cave, Herbie Hancock, Joyce Moreno, Zakir Hussain, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Robert Fripp, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Youssou N'Dour, Charlie Parker, Yeghish Manoukian, Billie Holiday, Bobby McFerrin, Brian Eno, Sainkho Namtchylak, David Sylvian, Jean-Luc Ponty, Björk, Ry Cooder, Kudsi Ergüner, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Aphex Twin, Burt Bacharach, Ruben Gonzales, Ibrahim Ferrer, Fela Kuti, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Phil Collins, Alva Noto, Amon Tobin, Trent Reznor, Stephan Micus, Imogen Heap, John McLaughlin
::Bands/Groups::
Huun-Huur-Tu, King Crimson, Erschiglen, Buena Vista Social Club, Radiohead, Gentle Giant, Soundgarden, Inti, Atlas Ensemble, Steely Dan, Taraf de Haidouks, Radiohead, Air, Kronos Quartet, Pink Floyd, Japan, Kocani Orkestar, Motorpsycho, Gentle Giant, Melody of China, Al Turath Ensemble, LCD Soundsystem, Elliott Smith, Nick Drake, Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Police, QOTSA, Van Der Graaf Generator, Goblin, Joy Division, Porcupine Tree, Orkest de Volharding, Jaga Jazzist, New Cool Collective
::Filmmakers::
Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Maya Deren, John Cassavetes, David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jim Jarmusch, P.T.Anderson, David Cronenberg, Wes Anderson - Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Seijun Suzuki, Nagisa Oshima, Shohei Imamura, Masaki Kobayashi, Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhito Ishii, Shinya Tsukamoto - Fritz Lang, F.W.Murnau, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog - Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Roberto Rosselini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci - Sergei M.Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Kira Muratova, Alexander Sokurov, Andrey Zvyagintsev - Jean Renoir, Jacques Tati, Alain Resnais, Francois Truffaut - Luis Buñuel, Alejandro Amenábar, Pedro Almodóvar - Peter Greenaway, Alfred Hitchcock, Terry Gilliam - Alex van Warmerdam, Paul Verhoeven, Nanouk Leopold - Ingmar Bergman, Lukas Moodysson - Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg - Kryzstof Kieslowski, Roman Polanski, Andrzej Wajda - Milos Forman, Jan Švankmajer - Béla Tarr, György Pálfi - Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Yilmaz Güney, Fatih Akin - Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Jia Zhangke - Johnny To, Wong Kar-Wai (except MBN) - Joon-ho Bong, Kim Ki-Duk - Carlos Reygadas, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuarón - Aki Kaurismaki, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Emir Kusturica, Theo Angelopoulos, Tony Gatlif, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiarostami, Siddiq Barmak, Byambasuren Davaa, Tsai Ming-Liang, Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Abderrahmane Sissako, Ousmane Sembène |
