PHARMAKON (US) + BOLT RUIN (BE)

Name: PHARMAKON (US) + BOLT RUIN (BE)
Start: 2026-05-13T19:30:00+02:00
Location: Magasin 4

Schedule

Wed, 13 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Magasin 4 | Brussels, BU

MAGASIN 4 PRESENTS :
PHARMAKON (US) (Harsh Noise / Electronic)
Margaret Chardiet is an interdisciplinary sound artist born and based in New York City. Raised by underground musicians and artists, Margaret was surrounded by a collective of the city’s impassioned, cultural detritus. Instead of following a path of higher education, she began the experimental project Pharmakon in 2006, at the age of 16. Pharmakon as a project, entity, and process, has evolved and exists in true protean form, developing alongside (or more so 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, which performatively abandons 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. Ferality, a social contagion or biorhythm. Margaret has also played in numerous punk groups that extend out to a greater international D.I.Y. music community, and has composed score and original music for the films Transfiguration (2017), and Sound of Metal (2019).
BOLT RUIN (BE) (Electronic / Drone / Experimental)
BOLT RUIN brings immersive electronic music that fuses the heaviness of sludge with cinematic sonic palettes. Distorted sound-design and crunching textures clash with broken industrial rhythms.
In the past he has shared the stage with artists like BIG|BRAVE, The Body & Dis Fig, Duma, Wiegedood, Divide and Dissolve, ...
~ PRICE : 15€
~ TMING : TBA