"Ben Frost (born 1980) is an Australian composer and producer. He is based in Reykjavík, Iceland. Frost composes minimalist, instrumental and experimental music, with influences ranging from classical minimalism to punk rock and black metal.
His albums include: Steel Wound (2003), School of Emotional Engineering (as part of the band School of Emotional Engineering) (2004), Theory of Machines (2007), By The Throat (2009), Sólaris (with Daníel Bjarnason) (2011), and Aurora (2014). He has collaborated with contemporary dance companies Chunky Move, the Icelandic Dance Company and the British choreographer Wayne McGregor. He composed the music for Wayne McGregor's 2010 work FAR.
Frost co-composed with Daníel Bjarnason, Music for Solaris, which was inspired by both Stanislaw Lem's original novel and the 1972 Tarkovsky film Solaris. Commissioned by Unsound Festival, it was performed by Frost, Bjarnason and Sinfonietta Cracovia. He composed the music for the films, Sleeping Beauty, the Icelandic drama The Deep and the 2015 British television series Fortitude. In 2012 he travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo with Richard Mosse, along with Trevor Tweeten and John Holten, to score the sound for Mosse's artwork The Enclave.
In 2013, in his first directorial role, he premiered a critically acclaimed music-theatre adaptation of the Iain Banks novel The Wasp Factory."
wikiAlbums
Steel Wound - Room40 2003
Theory Of Machines - Bedroom Community 2006
By The Throat - Bedroom Community 2009
The Invisibles (8xFile, MP3, Album, 320) Amnesty International none 2010
Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason - Sólaris - Bedroom Community 2011
F A R (9xFile, MP3, Album, 320) Not On Label (Ben Frost Self-released) none 2013
Black Marrow (7xFile, FLAC) Not On Label (Ben Frost Self-released) none 2013
A U R O R A - Bedroom Community, Mute 2014
Singles & EPs
Music For Sad Children (CDr, EP, Ltd) Not On Label (Ben Frost Self-released) none 2001
Untitled EP (7", EP, Ltd, Num) Inventing Zero Records IZR 701 2002
Bora Yoon + Ben Frost - The Journal Of Popular Noise Vol. 1 Issue 8 (7", EP, Ltd, Num) Journal Of Popular Noise JPN108 2008
Past Lives / Bora Yoon & Ben Frost / Na + Junko - Journal Of Popular Noise Vol. 1 Issues 7-9 (3x7", Ltd) Journal Of Popular Noise JPN107, JPN108, JPN109 2008
Richard Mosse - Ben Frost - The Enclave (7", EP, Ltd, Gre) Aperture Foundation RMBF001 2012
Sleeping Beauty (7xFile, MP3, EP, 320) Not On Label (Ben Frost Self-released) none 2013
Variant - Mute, Bedroom Community 2014
DJ Mixes
Ben Frost Has No Business DJing (File, MP3, Mixed, 320) FACT Magazine FACT 235 2011
Videos
Ben Frost / Valgeir Sigurðsson / Nico Muhly / Sam Amidon - Everything Everywhere All The Time / Whale Watching Tour (2xDVD, Ltd, vac) Bedroom Community HVALUR 14DVD 2013
Miscellaneous
Lawrence English & Ben Frost - Anyone Can Play.... Anyone Can Sing.... (2xFile, MP3, 128) Dreamland Recordings DLNET020 2004
Rare Decay (File, MP3, 320) Not On Label (Ben Frost Self-released) none 2015
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