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Some people who make music are instantly very savvy about how they can get their music to communicate in a larger way. For me, the music was always first, and I put a lot of time and effort and thought into making the recordings. But everything else around it, all the things that were necessary to have a career in pop music, I was completely ill equipped to handle.
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Some people who make music are instantly very savvy about how they can get their music to communicate in a larger way. For me, the music was always first, and I put a lot of time and effort and thought into making the recordings. But everything else around it, all the things that were necessary to have a career in pop music, I was completely ill equipped to handle.
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I am a musician who stopped working with music. Now I work with visual music, or audio-visual music.

Kurt Ralske Musician

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

Kurt Ralske Musician

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Kurt Ralske Musician

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