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一開始在紐約炮製內臟噪音而開始藝術生涯的 Margaret Chardiet，個人噪音計畫以Pharmakon為名，在布魯克林獨立音樂廠牌Sacred Bones Records推出的第三張專輯。
唱片封面藝術總是強烈而具有身體性的，如同Pharmakon自始探究身體、物理限制的音樂，2017年發行的Contact，繼前兩張探究身體的衰敗與經歷手術後所感受到的身心分離狀態，發展出更加延展的空間，同時也是Pharmakon開始思考與社會連結的作品。
在充滿壓力、密集的電子聲響中，Pharmakon的尖叫聲與宣告式地怒吼迸裂，在精準的音色追求與編排下，整張專輯完整而純熟，如同完美的宣洩，在戲劇與情感超越的過程中掙扎，從Nakedness of Need到Transmission，重複的警鈴聲響背景不斷訴說著人類物理肉體的限制與規則，在消長的噪音間，人類情感的搏鬥在扭曲間明滅，Sleepwalking Form更有著鳥獸叢林般的、縈繞你我夢境的嗡嗡鳴聲，在無法解決的現世困境中，Pharmakon進入人類深層意識的共同經驗，超越亦或逃離，都是你我可能的選擇。
- Fang
The release date of Contact marks the ten-year anniversary of Margaret Chardiet s project, Pharmakon. While working on her newest release, she began to evaluate the project as a whole. Though the content of each record has been very different and specific, the pervading question, which has underlined them all, is what is means to be human. Her last album, Bestial Burden, focused on the disconnect between mind and body, looking at the human as an isolated consciousness stuck inside of a rotting vessel. For Contact, she wanted to look at the other side of the spectrum – the moments when our mind can come outside of and transcend our bodies.
Because an album is itself an object, she struggled with how to convey the transcendence of the physical, through a physical medium. She started to study trance states and equate her live performances to them. In trance states, music and the body are used to transcend the physical form and make contact with some outside force. In the live setting, she used sound and her body to create an exchange of energy and make contact with outside forces - humanity, empathy, the audience. This energy/empathy exchange has always been at the heart of a Pharmakon performance, but she felt that on records, it wasn t translating. They were one-sided and flat – declarations rather than conversations. She decided to structure the compositions of each side of Contact after the four stages of trance: preparation, onset, climax, and resolution. By using these stages as a biorhythm for the album, she animates it, and instills the intention of communion into the music.
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