Free Frags

Free Frags is a platform of expression for visual artists who also practice sound. Created by visual artist François Bianco in 2020, this project takes the form of an association under the law of 1901 which will serve as a support for the production and diffusion of the artists’ projects: music, sound piece, poetry, parallel musical researches are welcomed and printed on one of the most apt supports to resist the passage of time: vinyl. The aim of this artistic publishing label is to collect this sound material and give it a concrete physical existence. In addition to the making of a recording, Free Frags also makes it possible to implement a graphic work linked to the artist’s practice: inserts, booklets, photographic prints, serigraphs... which will become one with the musical object. The artist can therefore associate this particular form to his plastic art research. The principle of making vinyl, a reproducible engraving, gives to this object the status of a memory, which can be compiled and archived. Free Frags aims to bring together these multifaceted artists, witnesses of a generation at the crossroads between the development of technology and the expansion of artistic practices towards hybrid forms.