First solo album of the creator of Ultra Vivid Scene (4AD/pop with irony) and Cathars (meta-electronic), now back with a soulful minimalist electronic music.
Audio -- Kurt Ralske is a Manhattan-based composer, electronic musician, and computer audio-video artist. As a composer, he has scored nine feature films, including Elements Of A Forgotten Merzbau (Kurt Schwitters), the complete original score for Not A Love Song, winner of the Critic's Award Best Feature Film at the Berlin Film Festival 1997. What we propose here is Kurt's current electronic music project, the result of his work in computer programming for digital audio using the language Max/MSP. Experimental ambient textures are liquid and otherworldly, as described by Alternative Press as 'proving than machines do indeed have souls -- it just takes special musicians to reveal them'.
Video -- The recent release of the new computer language Nato. 0+55 caused Kurt's computer music work to drift into the realm of computer video. he explains, "Nato.0+55 allows me to take programs I've written that generate audio, and slightly modify them to be able to generate video. Data is just data; audio, video, the media type is secondary to what one does with it. working on scoring films, my role was to create music for visuals; now, I am using Nato to do sort of the reverse -- creating real-time visuals to match the music. plus, now there are new ways for audio and video data to interact and influence one another..."
