“I am a musician who stopped working with music. Now I work with visual music, or audio-visual music.” MusicianVisualsAudioAudio Visual Author:Kurt Ralske
“Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.” MusicianRootsPerformancesVisualsComposerImprovisingAudioAudio Visual Author:Kurt Ralske
“I was a musician who began playing with computers, to see if they could make some tasks simpler. I developed some "tricks" or strategies for working with audio files, and then discovered that the same tricks could be applied to video files, or really, any type of data. Previously I made many different kinds of music. I did some work as a composer of film scores. In that role, my task was to create audio to match and deepen the visual. In my work now, the role is often reversed: I have to create images to match and deepen the audio.” IfsKindMadeDifferentFilmRolesTypeComputerMusicianTasksStrategyTricksVideoDataVisualsScoreComposerDifferent KindsFilesAudioDifferent Kinds Of MusicFilm Scores Author:Kurt Ralske
“My attitude towards my time as a musician, is that I really wanted to completely reinvent myself and not be one of these people who, twenty, thirty years later, is trying to recreate something that happened. I'm glad that Neil Young still makes records, but I don't know that everybody needs to be frozen in time forever. I think it's good that pop music is ephemeral.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsTryingYearsStillsWantedYoungAttitudeForeverRecordsHappenedMusicianMusic IsTwentiesPopsGladThirtyMy TimeFrozenPop MusicThirty YearsMy AttitudeEphemeralFrozen In Time Author:Kurt Ralske
