Siegmar Fricke (Pharmakustik) started his earliest musique concrète-experiments in 1981. Since his activities within the global tape-scene, he has been concentrating on his solo-works and on collaborations with originators of the experimental art-scene who focus on idiosyncratic sound-architecture and decomposition: Maurizio Bianchi from Milano, Eberhard Kranemann (ex-Kraftwerk) and Conrad Schnitzler. Siegmar Fricke describes his current Pharmakustik-works as 'audiochemical soundpools'. Music with lots of references to medical processes and audiosurgical treatments.

Beside the musical projects Siegmar Fricke has been developing his decomposed collages since 1984. His artworks can be characterized as high dosed mixed-media dismemberments combined with chemotoxic political approach. Face-implants, pollution, explosions, apocalyptic scenarios, technology, psychotic convulsions, transformation and re-transformation, dramatic circulation of events…those are just a few elements that are part of Pharmakustik’s new collages illustrating 'The neoplastic present' term: Pharmakustik).

The new book 'Festins de desmando' by Louis Armand contains four collages by Pharmakustik, exclusively created for this wonderful edition. In addition, a special video and soundtrack was produced at Pharmakustik-studio Germany for the book-launches in Lisbon and Prague 2023.