Pharmakon, Bolt Ruin

Magasin 4 presents Pharmakon (US) and Bolt Ruin (BE) on 13 May 2026 at 17h30.

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 protean form, developing alongside (or more so within) Margaret’s personal experience and autodidactic philosophies. Her work as a whole is a forced self-possession, a celebration of ferality and viscerality, 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 her 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 DIY 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.