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 practice explores the translation of natural environments into abstract sonic and visual forms, often filtered through digital and machine-driven processes, investigating the tension between expansive macrostructures and fragile, microscopic materialities. His aesthetic arises from an engagement with field recording, acoustic ecology, sound physics and synthesis, audio spatialization, and data sonification as compositional tools. His projects span a diverse set of ecological and anthropogenic contexts, including glacial and volcanic terrains, rainforest and marine ecosystems, industrial environments, and astronomical phenomena.

Fabris 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. 

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), Glitsteinar (w/ Kateřina Blahutová).  In the visual arts, he has scored and sound designed Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s three channels films The Dream Pool Intervals and An Experiment with Time, as well as DETONANTE, an upcoming multichannel film by photojournalist Sebastián Montalvo Gray. 

Fabris 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. Together with Kjartan Holm and Sin Fang is part of the experimental electronic project Tjara.

He is a resident artist at Greenhouse Studios (IS), 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: MUSICACOUSTICA (Beijing), EMS (Stockholm), SICMF (Seoul), Athens Digital Arts Festival, Moogfest (USA), Patchlab Festival (Krakow), WISDOME (Stockholm), Norient (Kunsthalle, Bern), Krakow Music Composer Festival, ICC (Istanbul), Kremlin Theatre (Moscow), Raagataala (Jodhpur, India), Venice Biennale, Gorki Theatre (Berlin), TQS (Milan/London), A Simana (France), CECM Indiana University (USA), CEMI UNT (Texas, USA), IRCAM (Paris), Bunkier Sztuki, Audio Art Festival, Solvay Modern Art Center, Arteteka (Krakow), Nonagon Festival (Sweden), Vetrarhátið, List Í Ljósi Light Festival, Mengi, Lunga Festival, Idno, Hurra (Reykjavík), Olympic Theatre of Rome, Regent Theatre (Toronto), Hangar Bicocca, La Triennale of Milan, INNER_SPACES S.Fedele (Milan), Festival Milano Musica, Milan Design Week, Milan Fashion Week, Terraforma, C/ART (Carrara), Circolo Magnolia, Babilon RadioRai2 (Milan), University of Turin, Mtv Days 2011 (Turin), Benetton Foundation Spazi Bomben (Treviso), Circolo degli Artisti (Rome), Municipal Theatre of Bolzen, Parole di Lulú (Rome), MEI Supersound (Faenza), Medimex, Municipal Theatre of Vicenza, Home Festival (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 Toyota, Maserati, Porche, Monclare, MSC, 66North, Fischersund Deutsche Bank and has been featured on Rolling Stone, Vice,  KEXP, Rainforest Alliance, RadioRai, MTV, DeeJay Tv, Arduino, La Repubblica. He has worked on different musical and technical roles on films and series by 20 Century Studios, Apple TV+, Netflix, Amazon Studios, HBO, NBC, ABC, Sky, Searchlight Pictures, FilmNation and records from labels including Sony, Universal, Deutsche Grammophon, BMG, Lakeshore, Invada, Rubyworks, Hollywood, New Amsterdam and many others. As FOH engineer, visual and light programmer has worked at festivals such as Montreux Jazz Festival, Semibreve, Scopitone, 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.