Francesco Fabris is an Italian, Reykjavík-based interdisciplinary artist, experimental composer, and musician working with audiovisual pieces, live electronics, multimedia installations, and recording studio productions as a producer and engineer.
His work investigates procedures that translate natural environments into abstract sonic and visual forms, filtered through digital & machine-driven techniques, and musically explores the intersection of intense, textural macrostructures with quiet, microscopic concrete elements. His aesthetic emerges from interests in field recordings, acoustic ecology, sound physics and synthesis, audio spatialization, and data sonification as composition tools, with projects developed in a diverse array of environments such as glaciers, rainforests, oceans, volcanoes, urban and industrial spaces.
His has released via labels including Bedroom Community, Room40 (VAKNING, Meradalir w/ Ben Frost, STILL~AEOLIAN w/ Sandro Mussida), INNI and Until Riots. His musical contributions include the OSCAR and BAFTA-winning score All Quiet on the Western Front, DARK series, Golden Globe, OSCAR and BAFTA nominated Conclave, Dune: Prophecy, The Old Guard, Silo, Defending Jacob, Fresh and many other including video games, theatre plays, operas and stage artworks.
In the visual arts, he has scored and sound designed Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s three-channel films The Dream Pool Intervals and An Experiment with Time, as well as DETONANTE, an upcoming work by photojournalist Sebastián Montalvo Gray, developed by the duo in the VRAEM region of the Amazon rainforest, following the Peruvian military operations in the war on drugs.
He has created solo and collaborative installations such as Stellar, 2120: 42°35’04.2″N 9°17’57.7″E, Stored Void (w/ Blair Alexander), PETRA (w/ Ava Grayson), and Glitsteinar (w/ Kateřina Blahutová). Together with Kjartan Holm and Sin Fang is part of the experimental electronic project Tjara.
Resident at Greenhouse Studios since 2017, has been collaborating on projects for screen, live and recorded mediums alongside artists including Valgeir Sigurðsson, Ben Frost, Lawrence English, Swans, Jónsi, Alex Somers, Dustin O’Halloran, Atli Örvarsson, Volker Bartelmann, Damien Rice, Nadia Sirota, Kaleo, Talos, JFDR, Sandrayati, 404.zero, and many others.
He is the founder of Outer Fields, a platform for field recording based projects, sound libraries and plug-ins and serves as the regional representative in Iceland for Quiet Park International. Fabris has performed worldwide with solo and collaborative projects in clubs, festivals, galleries, residencies and theatres.
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