Arvo Part,William Basinski,Max Richter,Alva.Noto,Deaf Center,Christian Forshaw,Akira Rabelais,Harold Budd,Sylvain Chauveau,Ketil Bjornstad,David Darling,Punkt,John Tavener,Herbie Hancock,James Bernard(hammer films composer), Michael Nyman,Louis Andriessen,?? (Fearful God),helmut schaefer,Claude Debussy,Henryk Gorecki,Rafael Anton Irisarri,Kate Bush,Sogar,Esbjorn Svensson Trio, Jean Musy,Erik Satie,Toru Takemitsu,Siouxsie and the Banshees, Ludovico Einaudi,Elegi,Library Tapes,Ornette Coleman, Stephan Micus, Thomas Koner,Eivind Aarset,olivier cavaillé, György Ligeti, David Cunningham' Brian Eno,ON,Nils Petter Molvaer,Biosphere,Scanner,The Beatles,John Lennon,Gary Numan,Heaven 17, Johann Johannsson,Robert Fripp,Tord Gustavsen Trio,Craig Armstrong,Wim Mertens,David Hykes & The Harmonic Choir, David Toop,Art Blakey,Roy Budd,The Psychedelic Furs,New Order, John Carpenter,The Doors,Big Country,Ultravox, The Human League,Fabbio Frizzi,Marconi Union,Miles Davis,Dmitri Shostakovich,Johnny Cash,Triosk,The Rolling Stones,The Band,carol decker,Gustav Mahler, Stars of the Lid,Angelo Badalamenti,Jumpel,The James Taylor Quartet,Ryuichi Sakamoto,Vanessa Lann,Morton Feldman,Meredith Monk,Roger Eno, John Hassell,Jan Garbarek,Julien Neto,Tangerine Dream,Goldmund,Tomasz Stanko,J.S Bach,Steve Reich,Svarte Greiner,John Adams,Bruce Springsteen,John Zorn,David Shea,Morrissey/The Smiths,Machinefabriek,Gavin Bryars,Frank Bretschneider,Richard Chartier,Bernard Herrmann,Grouper,Trey Gun,Quodia,Einojuhani Rautavaara,lalo schifrin,Richard Wagner,Thomas Tallis, Lustmord,Clint Mansell,Arve Henriksen,Ennio Morricone,John Barry,Jeff Love and his Orchestra,Systems Music, Shuttle 358, Murcof,Rothko,Dictaphone,Radio Massacre International,Marsen Jules,Lisa Gerrard,Ute Lemper,Ryan Teague,Philip Glass,Paul Lawler, Arcane,Brian Pike,John Dowland,Valentin Silvestrov,Taylor Deupree,Mike Oldfield,Nik Bartsch,The Gentlemen Losers,Paul Giger,Arild Andersen,John Cage,Tetsu Inoue,Helios,Marsen Jules,Jan Garbarek,Zbigniew Preisner,Howard Skempton
Ingmar Bergman films - especially: Hour of The Wolf, The Passion of Anna,Shame,Through a Glass Darkly, The Silence. Bela Tarr Films - especially:Damnation, The Werckmeister Harmonies.Andrei Tarkovsky films, especially Mirror, Stalker, Solaris,Andrei Rublev.Michelangelo Antonioni films,John Cassavetes films, Stanley Kubrick films, Orson Welles films,David Cronenberg films,Alfred Hitchcock films,films that star Peter Sellers, Jean Cocteau films,Get Carter,Broken Flowers,Puritan,The Mission,l'inferno,Cape Fear (1962 version),Night of the Hunter, Most Woody Allen films, Most Werner Herzog films,David Lynch films,Laurel and Hardy,La Jettee by Chris Marker, KOYAANISQATSI by Godfrey Reggio, Into a Great Silence by Philip Groning,Crumb by Terry Zwigoff,Downfall,The Agony and the Ecstasy, Lust For Life, Ben Hur, Zulu,The Great Escape,Girl with a Pearl Earing,Pollock, Universal horror films of the thirties and forties,Film Noir of the forties and fifties,The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,Nosferatu,M,Hammer/Tigon/Amicus films,John Carpenter films from the seventies and early eighties, Abe Ferrara films,Michael Mann films, Italian and american horror/action exploitation films of the seventies and early eighties, The Belly of an Architect by Peter Greenaway,Gosford Park by Robert Altman and Julian Fellowes,The films of Darren Aronofsky,Scarface by Brian de Palma, La Belle Noiseuse, Monsieur Hire,King of Comedy, The Legend of the Holy Drinker.... many American films of the seventies including : The Exorcist, Five Easy Pieces, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, The Godfather 1 and 2, Death Wish, The French Connection,Rocky, Dirty Harry, Magnum Force,Deliverence, The Three Days of the Condor, Apocalypse Now,The Deer Hunter,A Force of One, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Eiger Sanction,Play Misty for Me, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest,The Gambler, Rollerball,The Stepford Wives,Enter the Dragon,The Mechanic,McQ,The Conversation,All the Presidents Men etc...
Curb Your Enthusiam,Extras,The Sopranos,The Shield, CSI, Sherlock Homes as portrayed by Jeremy Brett,Star Trek (original 60's only)The Prisoner, Columbo (1970's version only)....also from the seventies - The Professionals, The New Avengers, Starsky and Hutch, Callan, Kolchak,The Persuaders, The Six Million Dollar Man,Space 1999, The Sweeney, The Water Margin....
a few amongst many might be - The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse, Images,my life in film by Ingmar Bergman,Species of Spaces and Other Places by George Perec,The Outsider by Colin Wilson,Correction by Thomas Bernhard,Essential Brackhage - selected writings on filmmaking by Stan Brakhage,Nausea by Jean Paul Satre,Time Within Time:Diaries 1970-86 by Andrei Tarkovsky,Haunted Weather by David Toop,Dreaming to Some Purpose by Colin Wilson,Religion and the Rebel by Colin Wilson,Ritual in the Dark by Colin Wilson,The Books in My Life by Colin Wilson,Oceans of Sound by David Toop, Mark Rothko by James E. B. Breslin,The Music of Primes - why an unsolved problem in mathamatics matters by Marcus du Sautoy, Darkness Visible by William Styron,Modern Nature by Derek Jarmen,The Journal of Eugene Delacroix,Notes From Underground by Fedora Dostoevsky,Dr Faustus by Thomas Mann,Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stephenson,The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, The Cinema as Art by Ralph Stephenson and Guy Phelps, Crime and Punishment by Fedora Dostoevskyy,The Unknown Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac,Solitude by Anthony Storr, Churchills Black Dog by Anthony Storr,A Year From Monday by John Cage, Rembrandt - the painter at work - Ernst Van Der Wettering, I am Alive and You are Dead - a journey inside the mind of Philip K Dick by Emmanuel Carrere,Divine Invasions a life of Philip K Dick by Lawrence Sutin,What if our World is Their Heaven - the final conversations of Philip K Dick,The Shifting Realities of Philip K Dick - selected Philosophical Writings,Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire,Post Office by Charles Bukowski,The Anti-Christ by Frederick Nietzsche,The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer,In Search of Serenity by Harold Kampf,The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton,Being There by Jerry Kosinski,Party of One by Anneli RufusThe Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan,Doubting Thomas - a novel about Caravaggio by Atle Naess,Strange Life of Ivan Osokin by P.D Ouspensky,The Ninth Configuration by William Peter Blatty (script),The Story of Edvard Munch by Ketil Bjornstad, Minimalists by K Robert Schwarz, Jackson Pollock - an american saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, Man and Superman by Bernard Shaw, Odd Nerdrum Themes by Bjorn Li, The Journals of Josef Herman, everything by Edgar Allen Poe, all the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels by A.C Doyle,Odd Nerdrum Paintings Sketches and Drawings by Richard Vine,a portrait of Robert Lenkiewicz by Dr Robert Stokes,No Exit by Jean Paul Satre,The Outsider by Albert Camus,The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol,Hunger by Knut Hamsun,Simulations by Jean Baudrillard,Rings of Saturn by W.G Sebald,The blue Notebooks by Franz Kafka etc etc...
I don't have heroes as such ...so here are some visual artists whose work I admire more than others :
Caravaggio, Rembrandt,Edvard Munch, Zurburan, Titian, Odd Nerdrum, ,Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko,Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning,LS Lowry,Franz Kline,Bill Viola, Barnett Newman,Don Judd,Piet Mondrian, Gerhard Richter, Frank Stella,Ingres,Peter Howson,Sargent,Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Antoni Tapies,Robert Motherwell,Guido Reni,Carl André, Dan Flavin,Stan Brakhage,Peter Kubelka,Joel Peter Witkin,Sol LeWitt,Tony Conrad,Edward Gorey, Michael Snow,Bruce Nauman,Botticelli,Agnes Martin,Hollis Frampton,Vincent Desiderio....