Pharmakon & Container at the 2016 Gray Area Festival
We are thrilled to bring you the very best in experimental noise from Pharmakon, receiving best new album last year on Pitchfork for her breakthrough album Bestial Burden. And Container, AKA Ren Schofield, joins us for a live set at the borders of techno and noise with live visual accompaniment by the artist Marpi! The show will start with an opening set by local DJ, Justin Anastasi. Learn more on the Gray Area Festival website!
Artists
Pharmakon
TVOD after-party with Pharmakon
Join us for the TVOD late-night after-party with Pharmakon at Counterpulse, 80 Turk St, San Francisco, on October 7th. The party kicks off right after the Gray Area Theater performances conclude, for attendees to continue the night's festivities.
Get tickets for the TVOD after-party with Pharmakon here
Margaret Chardiet is an interdisciplinary sound artist born and based in New York City. As a founding member of the Red Light District collective in Far Rockaway, NY, she has been a figurehead in the underground experimental scene since the age of seventeen. Pharmakon as a project, entity, and process exists and evolves in true protean form, developing alongside and within Margaret’s personal experience and auto-didactic philosophies. Her work as a whole is a forced self-possession: a celebration of ferality and viscereality, abandoning a society that has never accepted anything it couldn’t also exploit. Chardiet uses electronic synthesis as a tool to transfer this self-possession physiologically and intra-spatially into the bodies of their audience. Timbre becomes temper, a tameless social contagion or biorhythm.
Container
Container is the stripped-down, beat-oriented electronic project of Providence, RI's Ren Schofield, who somehow sculpts viscous punk sonics into raw jackhammer rhythms that groove in the most relentless, hypnotic, unstoppable and psychedelic ways currently working the grid. This lo-fi mesh of maxed-out drum patterns, spiralling loops and mesmerising arrangements makes for live music of serious weight and function, suitable for both high-end dancefloors and filthy warehouse parties alike.Started in 2009 in response to his discovery of nineties minimal techno, Container combined elements from his background in noise and cassette collage music with a new found interest in repetitive beats to create this raw and damaged rhythmic sound.
Justin Anastasi
Former bassist in The Soft Moon and longtime San Francisco DJ, Justin Anastasi is the creative head and producer behind the club night VX and co-founder of the SF based Surface Tension DJ collective.
