Kwisp
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Kwisp is a psychedelic rock
band formed in San Francisco. They include members of the legendary Fifty Foot Hose
, who are best known for their rather large influence on experimental music
.http://www.o-art.org/history/50s&_60s/Trips/50/HOSE.html Fifty Foot Hose has been cited as an influence by such bands as Throbbing Gristle
, Pere Ubu
and Chrome
.
Their first album, Teriyaki Vest Odyssey, merged Elf songs, free jazz, Dada, Δϑ ±µÇ and Tantric Appalachian Pygmy Music. The main core member is Altered Walter Funk, and Reid Johnston also plays on many of the tracks.
Kwisp currently has two released recordings, Teriyaki Vest Odyssey, and Altered States of Alien Kwisp.
Fifty Foot Hose founder, Cork Marcheschi was a guest on Teriyaki Vest Odyssey for one song. Kwisp's second album, Altered States of Alien Kwisp is a musical collaboration between Kwisp and Daevid Allen
from the band Gong
.
Kwisp is sometimes joined live by Daevid Allen
from Gong
, also Lenny Bove from Tripod Jimmie and Fifty Foot Hose
.
Some live performances feature hologlyphic animations that animate along with the music, using a custom built hologlyphic video synthesizer.
The Hologlyphic Video Synthesizer, called the Hologlyphic Funkalizer, projects Hologlyphic Glyphs that animate and spatially transform into each other, controlled by unique sound sculptures and a dedicated control panel. Moving hologlyphs and music become one, they are integrated and inter-modulating.
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...
band formed in San Francisco. They include members of the legendary Fifty Foot Hose
Fifty Foot Hose
Fifty Foot Hose is a psychedelic rock band that formed in San Francisco in the late 1960s, and reformed in the 1990s. They were one of the first bands to fuse rock and experimental music...
, who are best known for their rather large influence on experimental music
Experimental music
Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...
.http://www.o-art.org/history/50s&_60s/Trips/50/HOSE.html Fifty Foot Hose has been cited as an influence by such bands as Throbbing Gristle
Throbbing Gristle
Throbbing Gristle were an English industrial, avant-garde music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions...
, Pere Ubu
Pere Ubu
Pere Ubu is an experimental rock music group from Cleveland, Ohio.Père Ubu may also refer to:* Ubu, the enigmatic central figure of a series of French plays by Alfred Jarry, including Ubu Roi, and subsequent plays Ubu Cocu and Ubu Enchaîné...
and Chrome
Chrome (band)
Chrome was an experimental rock group founded in San Francisco, California in 1976.Chrome took part of their inspiration for their rough and sometimes chaotic music from proto punk pioneers like The Stooges. The sound of the group was often coarse and featured heavy elements of feedback and...
.
Their first album, Teriyaki Vest Odyssey, merged Elf songs, free jazz, Dada, Δϑ ±µÇ and Tantric Appalachian Pygmy Music. The main core member is Altered Walter Funk, and Reid Johnston also plays on many of the tracks.
Kwisp currently has two released recordings, Teriyaki Vest Odyssey, and Altered States of Alien Kwisp.
Fifty Foot Hose founder, Cork Marcheschi was a guest on Teriyaki Vest Odyssey for one song. Kwisp's second album, Altered States of Alien Kwisp is a musical collaboration between Kwisp and Daevid Allen
Daevid Allen
Daevid Allen , sometimes credited as Divided Alien, an Australian poet, guitarist, singer, composer and performance artist is co-founder of psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine and Gong .-Biography:In 1960, inspired by the Beat Generation writers he had discovered...
from the band Gong
Gong (band)
Gong is a Franco-British progressive/psychedelic rock band formed by Australian musician Daevid Allen. Their music has also been described as space rock. Other notable band members include Allan Holdsworth, Tim Blake, Didier Malherbe, Pip Pyle, Gilli Smyth, Steve Hillage, Francis Moze, Mike Howlett...
.
Kwisp is sometimes joined live by Daevid Allen
Daevid Allen
Daevid Allen , sometimes credited as Divided Alien, an Australian poet, guitarist, singer, composer and performance artist is co-founder of psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine and Gong .-Biography:In 1960, inspired by the Beat Generation writers he had discovered...
from Gong
Gong (band)
Gong is a Franco-British progressive/psychedelic rock band formed by Australian musician Daevid Allen. Their music has also been described as space rock. Other notable band members include Allan Holdsworth, Tim Blake, Didier Malherbe, Pip Pyle, Gilli Smyth, Steve Hillage, Francis Moze, Mike Howlett...
, also Lenny Bove from Tripod Jimmie and Fifty Foot Hose
Fifty Foot Hose
Fifty Foot Hose is a psychedelic rock band that formed in San Francisco in the late 1960s, and reformed in the 1990s. They were one of the first bands to fuse rock and experimental music...
.
Some live performances feature hologlyphic animations that animate along with the music, using a custom built hologlyphic video synthesizer.
The Hologlyphic Video Synthesizer, called the Hologlyphic Funkalizer, projects Hologlyphic Glyphs that animate and spatially transform into each other, controlled by unique sound sculptures and a dedicated control panel. Moving hologlyphs and music become one, they are integrated and inter-modulating.