Kwisp is a San Francisco based musical group, started by musician and holographic movie pioneer Walter Funk. Their instrumentation is unique, most of it built by the band itself. Their first album, Teriyaki Vest Odyssey, merged Elf songs, free jazz, Dada, and Tantric Appalachian Pygmy Music.

Walter Funk & Lenny Bove will be performing with Kwisp at IAMINDUST 2008. They first met through mutual friend Cork Marcheschi, whose 1960's experimental rock band Fifty Foot Hose, was among the very first of underground rock bands to perform with experimental and electronic instruments, influencing such later bands as Throbbing Gristle, Pere Ubu, and Chrome, plus sampled by musicians Jon Spencer and Skinny Puppy. In 1995, when Marcheschi was asked to reform the Hose, many original band members were unavailable, due to the fact that 'their molecules had drifted apart', so Walter and Lenny were asked to join Fifty Foot Hose.

Walter Funk plays surreal sound sculptures and custom electronic synthesis/sound transformation devices. Not just playing music, but creating sonic worlds, he has worked with John Cage, Leon Theremin, James Goode, LX Rudis, Winston Tong, and Gong's Daevid Allen. He appears on five Mandible Chatter recordings and has performed with Daevid Allen live many times since 1991, in both the US and Europe. Daevid appears on two Kwisp recordings so far. Their second release, Altered States of Alien Kwisp, is a musical collaboration between David and Kwisp. They have another full length collaboration CD to be released very soon.

Walter in 1994 began pioneering work with Hologlyphic Movies, with the intent to merge music with holography. His Hologlyphics are True 3D movies, these spatial visuals are seen in full 3D without glasses. Imagine circuit bending R2D2 while she is holographically projecting Princess Leia. He has several groundbreaking publications in well respected scientific journals on this technology and artistic technique.

Lenny Bove is a multi-instrumentalist, inventor, animator and sculptor who is equally at home with hand carving wooden chess sets shaped like Mafia Hit Men as he is with hand winding high voltage Tesla Coils. He plays bass, electronics, tape loops, Indian instruments, and the Flamingo Sitar. Lenny built and will be playing the Tower Electronique, a tower of hand-built analog devices, including a voice scrambler/spectral inverter system and a reverse engineered flying saucer control panel.

Lenny was a founding member of the late 70's punk/new wave group, The Peens. In 1981 when Pere Ubu's guitar player Tom Herman, left the band, Lenny, Tom and Rodger Prehoda started Tripod Jimmie. Lenny played electric bass and ran the controls on Jimmie, a tape machine mounted on a tripod with cassette loops playing. Later Lenny played in ?I am your Conscience? along with Tom, plus 3D Jesus, Little Batman and Fifty Foot Hose. His movie Baby Boom, won the Peninsula Movie Makers award in 1989, for Best Movie of the Year. Lenny also recorded with Daevid Allen for the upcoming collaboration with Kwisp.

At IAMINDUST 2008, Kwisp will bend sound through an ocotphonic sound system like a rabid banshee in heat.