Why did you develop the video editing/mixing software, VJamm?
We developed VJamm because we wanted to be able to jam with visual samples in the same way we jam with audio. Pure and simple. We needed an instrument; it didn’t exist, so we built it ourselves.

How do you see music and image merging in the future?
Sound and image…they’ve always been merged, humans are audio/visual animals. Sound and vision naturally go together, and there are lots of examples of that in the past. We’re just coming at that with a different set of techniques and a different aesthetic—more drawn from hip-hop than from Hollywood.

What was the impetus behind the name of your most recent album, Sound Mirrors?
Sound Mirrors refers to the idea that sound and music are intimately connected to human feeling and memory, and I think that’s a big part of the appeal of music and why it’s an import part of the human experience. You could almost say music is software for manipulating your moods.

Tell us about the performance at Astra.
We’ll be doing the full Coldcut live audio/visual meltdown spectacular with our MC. We’ll be performing some old and new stuff, as well as the audio/visual scratch-tastical widescreen show, which I don’t think you’ve seen before.