Mike Oldfield, Yann Tiersen, Joe Hisaishi, Kraftwerk, Kitaro, Andreas Vollenweider, classical music, folk music, 80's and 90's pop music, soundtracks (films, cartoons, adverts, games...etc.), and everything else I've ever listened to including sounds (such as door creak, bird songs, glass/photocopy machine/computer sounds, Morse Code...etc.), everything I've ever heard.

I was born to compose. If music was a congenital abnormality I would most most most definitely be considered majorly affected by it! As I was born with it I don't know the theory behind half of the things I do when composing - only that they work. I hear music in my head which is waiting to be played and recorded. That is how I compose. Everything inspires me. Absolutely everything. Even just hitting a key on a piano/keyboard. Sometimes I hear very quiet, "unidentified music" that normally turns out to be the murmur of my PC or the tap dripping. Every now and then I dream music when asleep; as I am a lucid dreamer I wake myself up and bring it out of there (into reality), quickly whistle or sing it onto my phone or whatever is near to record. I'm not crazy I just have very sensitive ears + selective hearing. I'm desperate to work as a professional composer / audio developer, so if you know anyone who needs someone like me, please get in touch!!! Thank you! :)

What I mean by SELECTIVE HEARING:

I have the ability to separate or “select” each and every sound or instrument within music & audio by just listening to the piece and recreate / play back exactly what they play. My ears are able to pick up and pay attention to every detail within music & audio. I can even slow these picked out melodies, rhythms, and patterns down in my head to make it easier to replicate, which only takes moments. Once I hear them it’s almost like they’ve been “recorded” in my head, so I can tweak them and do whatever I want with them both in - and outside of my head. It seems like I have a built in sound bank somewhere in my brain as I can remember what key songs are in that I haven’t heard in the past 10 years and can sing them in the right key before any melodies come in. I’ve had all this ever since I was born.

My ears are able to perceive a broader range of frequencies than what they say are generally audible to the human ear. The only “physical” proof of this is my ear test results – the rest is just demonstration. As a result of this perception my ears are extremely sensitive to certain sudden sounds, such as buses “puffing,” trains’ high pitch sound when they whizz through a station, someone sneezing, coughing, feedback from speakers, ambulance alarm from a distance, whistle and so on. These make my ears hurt like as if a needle has rapidly entered them and pierced something in them unexpectedly and within a fraction of a second...so very painful. Usually with stuff like trains or ambulances I have a reaction time to cover my ears as I can hear them approaching, but not with other things that occur without any notice.