SHADOW PUPPIES

Nick Didkovsky & Hans Tammen - guitars, homebrew software
Kurt Ralske - video, homebrew software

Shadow Puppies is a cutting edge trio which conjures rich, complex, and entrancing worlds of electronic sound and vision in real-time. Didkovsky and Tammen stretch the boundaries of the electric guitar with an arsenal of objects, electronics, and homebrew computer software, while Ralske interactively captures and processes video using digital technology of his own design. The result is an uninterrupted journey through sonic eruptions, video hallucinations, and aggressive, entrancing mediascapes.

MPEG-Movie 1, MPEG-Movie 2 - All images are taken from Kurt's video, live at Roulette's 2003.
More about Nick Didkovsky: http://www.doctornerve.org, Kurt Ralske: http://retnull.com

Full high-res picture of Nick/Hans/Kurt here...

As part of a residency in 2004 at CREATE@iEAR at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, the Shadow Puppies worked with the LEMUR GuitarBots, four single-stringed slide guitar units that can be remotely controlled via MIDI. See two excerpts of the performances with Kurt's live video processing of the GuitarBots here: MPEG-Movie1, MPEG-Movie2.