Anklepants is the experimental electronic music and performance project of Reecard Farché, an Australian artist, instrument builder, vocalist, producer, and live performer.

Active under the Anklepants name since 2004, Farché’s work combines hyper-detailed rhythm programming, warped vocal performance, mutant club music, unstable funk, grotesque melody, and custom-built performance systems. The project moves between precision and collapse: complex beat structures, bass pressure, processed voice, absurdist theatricality, and moments of emotional disorientation.

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A central part of Anklepants is the instrument system itself. Farché develops and performs with custom embedded musical interfaces including microphone instruments, body-based controllers, wearable systems, shoe controllers, sensor networks, OSC/Max/MSP control systems, and animatronic performance mechanisms.

 

These tools are not stage props; they are part of the composition, allowing movement, voice, gesture, and physical pressure to shape rhythm, timbre, and live processing in real time.

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Anklepants has released music through labels including QWERTY Records, Love Love Records, and Detroit Underground, with releases such as Pl-easkill, insideyourfacedubstepbeanstalktoheavenfortheatheist, and Pollen. Across clubs, festivals, broadcasts, and experimental art contexts, Anklepants has appeared on lineups with artists including Aphex Twin, Björk, Squarepusher, Arca, Jlin, SOPHIE, Oneohtrix Point Never, Luke Vibert, Alec Empire, John Carpenter, Otto Von Schirach, DJ Scotch Egg, and others.

The live work has been presented internationally across underground club settings, festival stages, broadcast platforms, and experimental performance contexts, including Boiler Room Berlin, Bangface Weekender, Day for Night, Soft Centre, and other documented event archives.

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Through Anklepants, Reecard Farché treats electronic music as a physical system: part composition, part instrument design, part voice experiment, part live-body interface. The project sits at the intersection of experimental electronic music, custom instrument development, performance art, and body-integrated sound control.

Official archives:
Music
Live archive
Press
Anklepants Event Graph
Metadexterious Instrument Archive

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For booking and enquiries:
bookings@reecardfarche.com