Ben Frost (musician)
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Ben Frost (born 1980) is an Australian composer and producer.[2] He is based in Reykjavík, Iceland. Frost composes minimalist, instrumental and experimental music,[3][4][5] with influences ranging from classical minimalism to punk rock and black metal.[1]
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).[3][4] He has collaborated with contemporary dance companies Chunky Move,[6] the Icelandic Dance Company[7] and the British choreographer Wayne McGregor.[8] 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.[5] He composed the music for the films, Sleeping Beauty, the Icelandic drama The Deep[7] 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.[9]
In 2013, in his first directorial role, he premiered a critically acclaimed music-theatre adaptation of the Iain Banks novel The Wasp Factory.[10][11][12][13]
Discography
- Music for Sad Children (2001) – independent
- Steel Wound (2003/re-issue 2007/2012) – Room40
- School of Emotional Engineering (2004) - Architecture
- Theory of Machines (2007) – Bedroom Community
- By the Throat (2009) – Bedroom Community
- The Invisibles (2010) – for Amnesty International
- Sólaris (with Daníel Bjarnason) (2011) – Bedroom Community[14]
- Sleeping Beauty (2011) – independent – Soundtrack for Julia Leigh's movie of the same name.
- Black Marrow (2013) – independent
- F a R (2013) – independent[15]
- Aurora (2014)- Mute Records / Bedroom Community
References
- 1 2 Buchanan, John D. "Ben Frost biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
- ↑ "Nico Muhly's Team Spirit". The New Yorker. 20 October 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- 1 2 "BBC - Music - Review of Ben Frost - By the Throat". BBC.co.uk. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- 1 2 Grayson Currin (8 January 2010). "Ben Frost: By the throat". Pitchfork. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
- 1 2 Cripps, Charlotte (3 June 2011). "Music for Solaris: the mentoring process". London: The Independent. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ↑ "Chunky Move". Southbank Centre. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- 1 2 "Jane Campion Presents a film by Julia Leigh: Sleeping Beauty" (PDF). Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ↑ "Inside choreographer Wayne McGregor's brain". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ↑ http://www.electronicbeats.net/en/articles/ben-frost-speaks-to-richard-mosse-your-work-will-be-distilled-into-a-plugin-in-photoshop/
- ↑ "The Wasp Factory". Royal Opera House. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ↑ Church, Michael (3 October 2013). "Opera review: The Wasp Factory". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ↑ "The Wasp Factory, Linbury Studio Theatre, London – review". Financial Times. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ↑ "The Wasp Factory – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ↑ John D. Buchanan. "Ben Frost - Discography - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ↑ "Ben Frost". Bandcamp. Retrieved 30 November 2013.