Francis Plagne

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Introduction Francis Plagne is a musician from Melbourne, Australia whose work swings between songwriting and a variety of other approaches, including group improvisation, instrumental abstraction, and domestic musique concrète. He performed live regularly since 2005 and has released recordings on labels such as Black Truffle, Horn of Plenty, Kye Records, Penultimate Press and his own Mould/Mouse Museum micro-label. In addition to performing his own work either solo or with a band, he has performed and recorded in improvised and other arrangements with Tetuzi Akiyama, Oren Ambarchi, Andrew Chalk, Crys Cole, James Rushford, and Joe Talia, among others. Since 2011, he has occasionally convened variably sized ensembles to perform scores by composers such as Manfred Werder, Christian Wolff and Toshi Ichiyanagi. Some collaborative projects, present and past, include Food Court, The Inevitable Orbit, and the ocarina ensemble Waste Drink.