Francesco Fabris is an Italian, Reykjavík-based interdisciplinary artist, composer and musician working with audiovisual works, multimedia installations and recording studio productions as producer and engineer.
His work investigates procedures that depict sound and visual forms out of a naturalistic context, while often filtering the outcome with machine-driven techniques. His aesthetic generates from interests in field recordings, acoustic ecology, sound physics & synthesis, audio spatialization and data sonification as composition tools.
He has released via labels including Bedroom Community, Room40 (‘VAKNING’, ‘Meradalir’ w/ Ben Frost, ‘STILL~AEOLIAN’ w/ Sandro Mussida), INNI, Outer Fields and Until Riots with projects developed in a diverse array of environments such as glaciers, the Amazon rainforest, urban contexts, oceans and volcanos.
His musical contributions include the OSCAR and BAFTA-winning score ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’, ‘DARK’ Netflix series, ‘Dune: Prophecy’, ‘Against the Ice’, ‘The Old Guard’, ‘Silo‘, ‘Without Remorse’, ‘Fresh’ and many other including video games, theatre plays, operas and stage artworks.
In the visual art he has scored and sound designed for Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s three channel films ‘The Dream Pool Intervals’ and ‘An Experiment with Time’, and created solo and collaborative installations such as ‘Stellar’, ‘2120: 42°35’04.2″N 9°17’57.7″E’, ‘Stored Void’, ‘PETRA’, ‘Voltage IO’ and ‘Glitsteinar’.
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 (Hauschka), Damien Rice, 404.zero, and many others.
He is the founder of ‘Outer Fields’, a platform for field recording based projects, 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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