Event Free Range 2

Free Range 2

Francis Plagne and Pious Faults

19 September 2024
7–9pm

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Free Range sounds, sunny side up. The second instalment of our new Thursday night sound club.

Once described as a guitarist with a museum in his head, Francis Plagne‘s sound world is a Wunderkammer of Canterbury styling, musique concréte curios, and notes collected from Italian library music. His extraordinary run of recent albums will become the stuff of legend. Joined on bass by fellow Naarm/Melbourne-based curiosity collector Alex Macfarlane, expect a set of delicate song craft from two of the finest.

After blazing a trail of hardcore decimation across the US in 2018, Meanjin/Brisbane’s Pious Faults arrived in Europe, already ingesting prog-rock cookies and befuddling continental punks. A leaked copy of their much-awaited second album now finds them sounding like Scott Walker in cahoots with Ligetti. An expanded line up at the IMA sees ubiquitous Alex Macfarlane and local string bender Kahl Monticone join the fray.

Francis Plagne. Photo: Rudi Williams.

The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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