Celestial Image has created music for planetariums, films, commercials and retail music. You may have heard Celestial Image when Christmas shopping and did not know who it was. It is played in Walmart, CompUSA and Petco stores across the USA.
I am thinking about it but I dont really like the hassle of moving equipment etc.
I am influenced by film composers like Bernard Herman and Ennio Morricone. I also like Maurice and Michel Jarre.
EML Synthesizers, theremin, tape techniques but mostly the computer now. Like the Gigasampler but can get by with soundfonts sometimes.