Ben Frost (musician)


Ben Frost is an Australian composer and producer, 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, School of Emotional Engineering , Theory of Machines, By The Throat, Sólaris , Aurora, and The Centre Cannot Hold. 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 music for Solaris with Daníel Bjarnason, which was inspired by both Stanisław Lem's novel Solaris and the 1972 Tarkovsky film of the same name. 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.
In 2015, Frost provided the score for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, alongside Paul Haslinger.
Two years later, in 2017, Frost scored the film Super Dark Times. In that same year, he premiered a new installation, entitled Incoming, with Richard Mosse and Trevor Tweeten at the Barbican Centre in London, which is currently touring worldwide.
Frost participated in the recording of Swans' 2019 album Leaving Meaning and joined their touring band.
From 2017 to 2020, Frost provided the score for all three seasons of Netflix's German sci-fi thriller Dark.

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