Johann Sebastian Bach, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith, Anton Webern, Erik Satie, Edgard Varèse, Walt Whitman, Henry Cowell, James Joyce, Henry David Thoreau, Lou Harrison, Lazare Lévy, Marcel Duchamp, Supply Belcher, Fannie Dillon

Radiohead, The Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa, Sonic Youth, Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Aphex Twin, Philip Glass, Pierre Boulez, Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Crass, Morton Feldman, Henry Cowell, Ciccone Youth, The Pop Group, Stereolab, Witold Lutoslawski, Roger Miller, Alvin Lucier, Yoko Ono, Earle Brown, Thom Yorke, Robert Ashley, SPK, Fred Frith, Toru Takemitsu, Meredith Monk, Harold Budd, Christian Wolff, James Tenney, Roger Reynolds, Cornelius Cardew, Robert Moog, Sofia Gubaidulina, Pete Wright, Phil Dat, Joy de Vivre, Nurse With Wound, Boyd Rice, Gavin Bryars, Tony Conrad, John White, Michael Parsons, Ben Johnston, Julia Wolfe, Calibre, Tuxedomoon, Fifty Foot Hose, Sylvano Bussotti