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Pharmakon
Pharmakon returns to Gray Area touring on her new album Devour.
Artist Margaret Chardiet, aka Pharmakon, returns to Gray Area touring on her upcoming album Devour. With live shows that are charged and even confrontational, this performance will leave you wanting to dive deeper into the extremes of sound and consciousness.
Devour marks the fourth full-length record from Pharmakon and the most intense output of her 12 plus years creating industrial noise. Like her previous albums, Devour comes with a strong concept that is exorcised throughout the five demolishing tracks on the album, using imagery and language of self-cannibalism as allegory for the self-destructive nature of humans. As one of the premiere vanguards of modern industrial and power electronics, Pharmakon continuously pushes genres. Devour explores new sonic territory, with denser electronics, groovier hooks, and moments of her most unhinged vocal deliveries to date.
Opening Acts:
Las Sucias
rose cherami && thee true indigo ensemble
Artist
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.
Las Sucias
Las Sucias is the Avant-Tropical Noise duo formed by Danishta Rivero and Alexandra Buschman-Román. Through ritualistic and improvisatory manifestations involving electronics and bruja voices, they look to their Venezuelan and Puerto Rican roots, and the diaspora's cultural expression, steeped in Afro-Caribbean and mestiza consciousnesses.
rose cherami && thee true indigo ensemble
rose cherami splashes sand from the leaky side of a beach town. she will be exploring physical liberation thru ritual improvisation joined by other members of the true indigo collective of san francisco california
