BEN FROST is an Australian/Icelandic composer, sound artist, and stage director born in Melbourne, Australia. His work spans studio recordings, live performance, installation, and collaborations across dance, theatre, and film.

Frost’s acclaimed studio albums include Aurora (2014), The Centre Cannot Hold (2017), and Scope Neglect (2024). His music for film and television include Sleeping Beauty (dir. Julia Leigh), Palestine 36 (dir. Annemarie Jacir), Raised By Wolves (dir. Ridley Scott), 1899, Die My Love (dir. Lynne Ramsay) and the cult series Dark.

In 2011 Brian Eno selected Frost as his protégé as part of the Rolex Arts Initiative. His decade-long collaboration with artist Richard Mosse has produced three award-winning multi-channel video installations: The Enclave (2013), Incoming (2017), and Broken Spectre (2022) which have been exhibited in museums and festivals internationally. 

Frost has written and directed two operas: The Wasp Factory (2013), based on the novel by Iain Banks, and The Murder of Halit Yozgat (2021), developed with London-based research agency Forensic Architecture. His current work focuses increasingly on large-scale sound installations and sculptural adaptations of PA systems. Ecological and political realities often underpin Frost’s work, though its impact is more direct: sound as an immediate, physical medium.

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FRANCESCO FABRIS is an Italian, Reykjavík-based interdisciplinary artist, composer, and musician working with live electronics, audiovisual performances, multimedia installations, and recording productions. 

His practice explores the translation of natural environments into abstract sonic and visual languages, merging digital and machine-driven processes with acoustic ecology, sound physics, field recordings, spatialization and data sonification, investigating the tension between expensive macrostructures and fragile, microscopic materialities.

His music has been released on labels including Bedroom Community, Room40, INNI, Until Riots, and his contributions span film, tv, theatre and opera, with credits including the OSCAR and BAFTA-winning score All Quiet on the Western Front, DARK, Conclave, Dune: Prophecy and more. 

In the visual arts, he has scored and sound designed for multichannel films by Ailbhe Ní Bhriain and Sebastián Montalvo Gray, and created installations such as Stellar, Stored Void, and PETRA. Resident at Greenhouse Studios Reykjavík, he has collaborated with artists including Jónsi, Swans, Ben Frost, Lawrence English, Alex Somers, Dustin O’Halloran, Volker Bertelmann, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Atli Örvarsson, 404.zero, and others. He is founder of the multimedia platform Outer Fields, and represents Quiet Park International in Iceland