Kurt Ralske quotes:

I am a musician who stopped working with music. Now I work with visual music, or audio-visual music.

Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.

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.