(anti)INDUSTRIAL (de)COMPOSER
Pharmakon is the solo project of Margaret Chardiet, an interdisciplinary sound artist born and based in New York City. As a project, entity, and process, Pharmakon exists and evolves in true protean form, developing alongside and within Margaretâs 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 couldnât also exploit.
Pharmakonâs newest studio album, Maggot Mass, is set to be released October 4, 2024. Full of grimy, industrial noise and wrathful vocals with ecocentric lyricism denouncing our capitalistic society and its greed, violence, and lack of compassion for human and non-human life, drawing links between the crises of environment and humanitarian disasters.