Recently: all the above + Fatima Al Qadiri, The Knife, Savages, Jehnny Beth, Cobrah, Cosey Fanny Tutti and Chris Carter, FKA Twigs, PJ Harvey, Depeche Mode, Terry Riley, Bohren and the Club of Gore, Nick Cave, Anohni, etc. etc.

If you want to compose like I do (I consider myself as a composer more than an instrumentalist), don’t lie to yourself, don’t try to be someone else, use your memory and musical influences from the beginning of your life until now, put them in a blender and serve us a good (non-alcoholic) cocktail.

What I generally like to have is a direction, or a sort of fil rouge of any kind. It can be a musical motive, or an instrumentation that I particularly like or a text (which might also then not be used, but be there as a sub-text for me). What I generally do is that I start writing and often I feel stuck because my music indicates a pulse and a time very clearly, which I don’t really like often. So what I do, and most of the times helps me out, is to write a choral without using the piano. Just from the skeleton idea of a harmonic or melodic 3/4 voice piano part, I start imagining that it will be sung by 4 voices from Bach’s time. That often gets me out of the "stuck mode”.

What I like to have, is a little notebook with music paper where I write down small ideas, that seem insignificant, and then after a while I open it and often one of the many ideas pops out and feels right to be used.