Shrieks, shrills and trills done vocally and synth-etically inspire a quixotic nausea of the existential kind in the ten year concept that is Pharmakon. Creating this music installation from NYC, Margaret Chardiet’s solo project has released the output titled “Contact” in which she examines “what it takes to be human” in dabbling with trance states and primal vibrations. In her words she explains “Despite all our rambling rejections, we cannot transcend all of our instincts-just animals lost in a confused dream…”.
One of her fans on Bandcamp.com describes it as “This album sounds exactly as (the cover art) looks like. It makes you feel disgusting. It’s very, very good”. Taking a look at the album cover photo of pink, grubby, slimy fingers, mushing hair and the glistening flesh of a face is a reminder that we are all existing inside a sack of meat, a sort of biological nihilism. Yet, if we accept “this tiny sliver of time it opens us to revel in it, to make CONTACT”. On first listen, I felt ill. I turned the song "Nakedness of Need" off, only to be left with a sense of intrigue.
If you are in the mood for the intensity of say, Swans in their Filth-era paired with the dark unpredictability that Nurse with Wound has mastered with bleak relentless synth incisions and human cries from the depths of uncomfortable darkness this is for you. I would recommend coming to indulge in this show if you want to trudge in the fear and the glimmer of the human experience. It might make you sick in a way, but doesn’t life? In the word’s of Chardiet, “When the mind uses the body in order to transcend- escape it!”
Also the Chasms duo visits their home town of SF after a move to LA to perform their heroine-gaze-y collaboration as well as Oakland’s own masked demons of light V.E.X., doing their dual synth queer-core weirdness that hopefully involves some improv sax.
Be there and be moved….
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