Ende Tymes 16: Jeph Jerman, Pedestrian Deposit, Relay For Death, Las Sucias, Shot Dog
Pioneer Works is excited to present the closing night of the 16th Annual Ende Tymes Festival of Noise and Sonic Liberation, featuring performances by Jeph Jerman, Pedestrian Deposit, Relay For Death, Las Sucias, and Shot Dog.
The Ende Tymes Festival of Noise and Sonic Liberation was founded in 2011 in the wake of Fukushima, and returns for its 16th edition in today's frozen and fascist apocalypse. On the closing night of the festival, Ende Tymes is honored to present five lifer artists from the heights and depths of sonic exploration.
Jeph Jerman will bring textures from the human body and found objects discovered in the Arizona desert from his "Bio Electric" project—a volume that gather the five “body sounds” tapes released by Hands To in the late 1980s while Jeph was living in Colorado: Maesh, Decesh, Invesh, Aggresh, and Recesh. Pedestrian Deposit will harness the visceral body of the Pioneer Works space, in their first return to the building since their 2017 appearance. Relay For Death dives deep into the background noise pollution of urban life in an industrial meditation engulfed in a hypnotic nihilism. Las Sucias conjures brujerĂa noise and Shot Dog will provide support. Learn more about the festival on its website.
Ende Tymes is organized by Bob Bellerue and Jackson Kovalchik.
About the artists
Jeph Jerman (b. 1959, Agana, Guam) started playing drums around age 16, eventually wasting time in various bar bands until giving that up to focus on re-inventing music. In Colorado during the '80's formed the bands: Cruel Posture, The Mudmen, Big Joey, City Of Worms and Blowhole, and began performing and recording under the name hands to. Moved to Seattle during the '90's and learned to improvise, beginning long associations with Dave Knott, Doug Theriault, Paul Hoskin, Lori Goldston and Wally Shoup among others. Formed the first animist orchestra and wrote music for it to perform. Moved to Arizona in the late '90's and started an investigation of the sonic properties of the desert, built crude sounding devices and generally tried to disappear.
Pedestrian Deposit is a longstanding sound and performance project formed in 2000. The collaborative effort of Shannon A. Kennedy and J. Borges is best described as visceral and intense; narrative and highly composed, often abstract sound textures informed by elements of experimental sound, shoegaze, harsh noise, musique concrete, neo-classical, dark ambient and performance art.Beginning with harsh noise compositions and early computer-based cut-up techniques, the project has evolved through multiple phases spanning electroacoustic minimalism, digital composition, amplified sculptural objects, and carefully structured dynamics that traverse the full range of sonic intensity.From 2008, Pedestrian Deposit has operated as a duo with Shannon Kennedy, whose contributions of extended cello technique, movement, and performance through physically-activated handmade instruments and amplified sculptures using strings, wood and metal, brought a critical shift in presence and sonic scope. Together, their live performances are known for being unrelenting and emotionally immersive; a dynamic and deliberate presence defined by precise, layered electroacoustic textures, high-pressure silence and explosive sonic chaos, pushing both composition and endurance to aesthetic limits.
Relay For Death is the experimental noise project of twin siblings Rachal and Roxann Spikula. Since 2005, the duo has created immersive, often bleak, sonic environments using field recordings, motors, radio transmissions, and handmade elements. They have released records on RRRecords, Hanson, No Rent, Helen Scarsdale, Total Black, Ballast, and a collaboration on Ecstatic Peace.
Las Sucias is an Avant-tropical noise duo formed by Danishta Rivero and Alexandra Buschman-Roman in Oakland, CA in 2014. Performances are rituals that draw from their Venezuelan and Puerto Rican roots.
Shot Dog is the collaborative project of New York City based artists Tyler Keen and Kiran Arora, who have both been active under various guises since the early 2010s. As a duo they have released recordings on the labels Idiopathic and Dead Gods. This will be their sole live performance.