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. 

Among the others: SICMF Seoul International Computer Music Festival, ADAF Athens Digital Arts Festival, MUSICACOUSTICA (Beijing), EMS Elekronmusik Studion (Stockholm), Moogfest (USA), Patchlab Festival (Krakow), CECM, Indiana University (USA), CEMI UNT University of North Texas (USA), Norient Festival (Kunsthalle, Bern), Kremlin Theatre (Moscow), Raagataala (Jodhpur, India), ICC (Istanbul), Gorki Theatre (Berlin), TQS (London), Station (Beirut), A Simana (France), Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow Music Composer Festival, Audio Art Festival, Solvay Modern Art Center, Arteteka (Krakow), IRCAM Forum Workshop, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Nonagon Festival (Sweden), Vetrarhátið, List Í Ljósi Light Festival, Mengi, Lunga Festival, Idno, Hurra (Reykjavík), Olympic Theatre (Rome), Regent Theatre (Toronto), Hangar Bicocca, La Triennale of Milan, INNER_SPACES c/o Auditorium S. Fedele, Festival Milano Musica, Milan Design Week, Milan Vogue Fashion Night, Terraforma Festival, Circolo Magnolia, BabilonRadioRai2 (Milan), University of Turin, Mtv Days 2011 (Turin), Circolo degli Artisti (Rome), Municipal Theatre of Bolzen, Parole di Lulú (Rome), MEI Supersound (Faenza), Medimex (Bari), Municipal Theatre of Vicenza, Home Festival, Benetton Foundation/Bomben Spaces (Treviso). Works were selected also for FILE Festival in Sao Paulo and ISEA2019 in South Korea.

He has created music and sound contents for brands including Maserati, Toyota, Porche, Deutsche Bank, Monclare, MSC, 66North, Fischersund and has been featured on Vice, Rolling Stone, Rainforest Alliance, RadioRai, MTV, DeeJay Tv, Arduino, La Repubblica. He has worked in a diverse range of musical roles on films and series produced by Apple TV+, Netflix, Amazon Studios, HBO Max, NBC, ABC, Searchlight Pictures and FilmNation. As FOH engineer, visual and light programmer has worked at festivals such as Semibreve, Scopitone, Montreux Jazz Festival, Philharmonie de Paris. 

Awards include: winner of ACC_R Creators 2020 (South Korea), PRIX CIME 2017 (Texas), Vetrarhátíð (Reykjavík 2024), S. Fedele Musica 2016 (Milan), DE.MO./ MOVIN’UP 2015, T.A.T. (2011, Rome) and nominated “Producer of the Year” at the Icelandic Music Awards 2022.

Fabris is a cum laude graduate in Electroacoustic Music Composition and Multimedia Technologies from the Conservatory “A. Steffani” of Castelfranco Veneto (IT), studied at the Intermedia Art Department, Academy of Music and SME Studio of Electroacoustic Music in Krakow, and graduated in Contemporary Writing and Production at the Cpm Music Institute in Milan.