I make electronic music: http://soundcloud.com/gau5/spotlight, and the usual stuff like hang out with friends, I love watching movies, doing mathematics and watching videos on creating music and other forms of art.
Just wondering because I'm a programmer who doesn't know anything about musical production or theory but has always entertained the idea of making ambient-style electronic music.
[3] http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu
[4] http://supercollider.sourceforge.net
[5] http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Music-Synthesis-Composition-P...
But I don't think people give enough credit to listening music a lot to develop your ears.
But in terms of your typical musical background, about 5 months ago I threw myself into reading music theory and sound engineering books like crazy whenever I could and have been hooked ever since.