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.

Among the others: MUSICACOUSTICA (Beijing, China), EMS Elekronmusik Studion (Stockholm), SICMF Seoul International Computer Music Festival (South Korea), ADAF Athens Digital Arts Festival (Athens), 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), 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, New Generation (Bratislava), 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 The Creator Projects, Rolling Stone, Rainforest Alliance, Arduino, RadioRai, Vice, MTV, DeeJay Tv, La Repubblica. 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), 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.