Pharmakon

Pharmakon Returns with 'Contact'

PUBLISHED Jan 12, 2017

This year marks the 10 year anniversary of Margaret Chardiet's Pharmakon project, and in celebrating the milestone, the experimental noise...

Pharmakon / Marshstepper / Ligature


La Vitrola, Montréal QC, December 12


PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2014

Noise outfits are not creatures born to be loved. But just as Santa can't be the merry obese old man he is without Krampus (or his French e...

Pharmakon Announces North American Tour, Reveals 'Bestial Burden' Short Film

PUBLISHED Dec 10, 2014

Noise artist Pharmakon (a.k.a. Margaret Chardiet) has announced she'll be taking the brilliantly disturbed sounds of her body horror master...

Pharmakon

Bestial Burden

PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2014

There's always been an intense physicality to Margaret Chardiet's music as Pharmakon; the throat-shredding screams she pairs with throbbing...

Pharmakon

"Body Betrays Itself"

PUBLISHED Aug 18, 2014

As previously reported, a major medical emergency inspired New York noise artist Pharmakon (a.k.a. Margaret Chardiet) to make her next LP,...

Pharmakon Transforms Medical Emergency into 'Bestial Burden' LP

PUBLISHED Jul 30, 2014

Though a major surgery temporarily sidelined Pharmakon (a.k.a. New York noise artist Margaret Chardiet), forcing her to cancel a 2013 Europ...