Ende Tymes 16: Feat. Raven Chacon & Iggor Cavalera, and more

Ende Tymes is honored to present six noise artists from the heights and depths of sonic exploration.

Pioneer Works is excited to present the closing night of the 16th Annual Ende Tymes Festival of Noise and Sonic Liberation, featuring performances by Raven Chacon & Iggor Cavalera, Pedestrian Deposit, Jeph Jerman, 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.

Raven Chacon brings his expansive, quietly confrontational approach to sound, blending minimalism, noise, and spatial listening, while Iggor Cavalera delivers a percussive onslaught shaped by decades of boundary-pushing work across metal and experimental music. LA legends Pedestrian Deposit (Shannon A. Kennedy and J. Borges) are masters of delicate tension and extreme sonics. Since 2000, they have created hundreds of performances utilizing custom armatures and homemade instruments, powered by resonant electronics and storms of harsh noise. Jeph Jerman creates site-specific performances using his body and found objects gathered in the Arizona desert for his "Bio Electric" project—work that reaches back to his project Hands To in the late 1980s. Cult classics Relay For Death (Rachal and Roxann Spikula) dive deep into the enlightened noise pollution of urban life in an industrial meditation fueled by hypnotic nihilism. Las Sucias (Danishta Rivero and Alexandra Buschman) conjure brujería via noise bachata, and local duo Shot Dog (Kieran Arora and Tyler Keen) will play their first-ever performance after releasing numerous acclaimed albums. Learn more about the festival on its website.

Ende Tymes is organized by Bob Bellerue and Jackson Kovalchik.

About the artists

Raven Chacon is a New York-based composer, performer, and installation artist. He holds a degree in music from the University of New Mexico and a master’s degree from the California Institute of the Arts. Chacon is known for exploring the intersections of sound, space, and Indigenous histories. In 2022, he became the first Native American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his composition Voiceless Mass, and in 2023 he was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship. His work has been presented at events such as the Whitney Biennial (New York), documenta 14 (Kassel), the Sydney Biennale, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. He also serves as senior composer and mentor for the Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP).

Iggor Cavalera is a London0based drummer, producer, and sound artist. He is the co-founder of the thrash metal band Sepultura, and is currently involved in projects such as Cavalera Conspiracy, Soulwax, Petbrick, and the electronic duo Mixhell, created in 2006 with Laima Leyton. Since 2004, he has worked as a DJ and electronic music producer, performing at festivals like Glastonbury, Bestival, and Reading. In 2016, he joined Soulwax. With Petbrick, he explores fusions of heavy drumming, noise, and electronics. From 2017 onward, he built his own studio and, by 2019, began composing experimental music using modular synthesizers, blending ethereal sounds, electronic beats, and live drums. He works as a producer and performer in contexts that intersect music, art, and activism.

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.

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.

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.