Cadaver Eyes | Autumn Descends / The Road Extends
Shaul Kohn & Ron Sheskin
Cadaver Eyes | Autumn Descends / The Road Extends
Two individuals are facing each other in the dark. They play heavy, ear-splitting music. Both operate at the rawest level of the instruments at their disposal. One uses his body: he drums and screams. He reacts to the world’s violent and oppressive actions on his suffering body. The other plays an electronic system, amplifying the electrical murmur of the silent channels of a no-input mixer, generating unstable sound phenomena. The two navigate as a unit, trapped together in a treacherous and roaring musical terrain. As in an organism, every movement in a cell, even the slightest, causes the entire unit to shift; as in an organism, the cell’s action changes the environment. Cadaver Eyes weave a network of channels for the transmission of high-intensity physical-mental-sonic energy in space. At the site they build from acoustic mud, sludge, and pain, that network is wired to receptors that produce in the listeners the preliminary intense human experience. At its most basic level, their performance replaces the violent reality with an equally intense reality, but one that is fundamentally human and compassionate.
Cadaver Eyes are the drums/no-input-mixer duo of veteran drummer/vocalist David Opp. (BARBARA, Carnation Dingthang, Heart & Crossbone Records) and no-input-mixer virtuoso Eran “Zax” Sachs (Dumitrescu’s Hyperion Ensemble, Asher.Zax). Cadaver Eyes harness their dynamic force through the propulsive structures of Extreme Metal and Hardcore Punk. Their live sound is a total immersive sonic experience – heavy, pounding, and punishing. Their sensory overload operates on the our primal substrate, acting on the very mechanisms that situate us in the world. Projecting their sounds at high volume levels, the acoustic characteristics of the spaces in which they perform necessarily get activated, involving the structure itself in the production of sonic phenomena.
“Autumn Descends / The Road Extends” is the result of a long and arduous process, which intensified in 2022, as Cadaver Eyes started a residency at Hazira. They spent two years researching their relationship to the theater space, collaborating closely with the Tech Poetry team, who constructed costume aparati for the spatial projection of the amplified sound. The project initially dealt with the pain and suffering at the most writhing and primal levels of existence in our age of accelerated capitalism. Over the long stretch of time, another, very personal layer, had accumulated and became deeply infused in the project: life. Life in its hardships and its tributaries, its turns and its crises and the traumatizing scars that it leaves upon us. Cadaver Eyes will open the 2024 edition of Deluziot with a culmination of this vortex, the recorded results of which are also released in an LP by Orthodox Records (Paris).
The performance includes extremely high audio levels, smoke, prolonged darkness and flashing lights, and is not recommended for those dealing with photosensitive epilepsy.
Cadaver Eyes: Eran Sachs & David Opp | Sound design: Marco Milevski Tomasin | Amplifier training: Ron Sheskin | Special Machines: Amit Drori | Development, construction, and technical guidance: HaZira Tech Poetry
Shaul Kohn & Ron Sheskin
Shaul Koh (Andarta) and Ron Sheskin (Karka’it), the scene’s two infamous guitar heroes, converge on Deluziot, each from their own extreme end, to sacrifice themselves on the altar of drone and feedback. In a joint act of destruction and revival, they will breathe new life into the shattered remains of the amplifiers that Cadaver Eyes left behind, and try to extend, for a few moments longer, these instruments’ last throes of life.
