Ben frost
Ben Frost has just uploaded 4 Albums / EP's with film music and music for dance performances on Emusic . . .
Ben Frost - FAR - (2010)
Ben Frost - Black Marrow - (2009)
Chunky Move Dance Company
By Erna Ómarsdóttir & Damien Jalet
Music by Ben Frost featuring Oren Ambarchi, Borgar Magnason,
Nico Muhly and Helgi Hrafn Jónson
Costume and Production Design by Alexandra Mein
World Premiere, Melbourne Australia 2009
http://ethermachines.com/together/black-marrow/
- "For much of its hour Black Marrow is more like avant garde physical theatre than straightforward contemporary dance. Choreographers Erna Omarsdottir and Damien Jalet have burst through the boundaries by bringing spoken word, grotesque carny and smatterings of Brecht into the mix. The upshot is a fluttering, disturbing, concept driven piece that skirts a line between the didactic and the visceral.
Its apocalyptic themes are apparent from the outset as shapes heave and writhe beneath a layer of ooze and Ben Frost’s dark rumbling electronic soundscape clicks and burbles with ominous intent. . . . .
Dance Informa
A Film by Julia Leigh
Music Written & Performed by Ben Frost
Music Recorded & Produced by Ben Frost and Paul Corley
Additional Programming & Sound Design Paul Corley
Violins by Una Sveinbjarnardóttir
Mixed & Produced at Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavík, Iceland
2011
EDIT: august 2017
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- Bedroom CommunityBorn in 1980 in Melbourne, Australia, Ben Frost relocated to Reykjavík Iceland in 2005 and working together with close friends Valgeir Sigurðsson and Nico Muhly, formed the Bedroom Community record label/collective.
His albums, including Steel Wound (2003), Theory of Machines (2007) and BY THE THROAT (2009) fuse intensely structured sound art with militant post-classical electronic music, shape-shifting physical power with immersive melody, concentrated minimalism with fierce, rupturing dark metal.
In 2010 he was chosen by Brian Eno as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé program for a year of collaboration, one of the outcomes of which was Sólaris; a re-scoring of the Tarkovsky classic for Poland’s Sinfonietta Cracovia. The pair continue to work together on a range of projects.
Frost regularly collaborates with other musicians and artists; in the production of albums such as Tim Hecker’s Ravedeath 1972 and Virgins, SWANS' The Seer, Colin Stetson’s New History Warfare and on various Bedroom Community releases. On the stage Frost has produced scores for choreographers including Wayne McGregor/Random Dance, Akram Khan, Gideon Obarzanek/Chunky Move, and German Director Falk Richter. For film he has composed the score for the Palme d’Or nominated Sleeping Beauty by Julia Leigh, and Djúpið by Icelandic Director Baltasar Kormákur (with Daníel Bjarnason). In the visual arts, Frost travelled with artist Richard Mosse deep beyond the frontlines of war-torn Eastern Congo to produce The Enclave, a multi-channel video and sound installation that premiered at the Venice Biennale in 2013.
Frost marked his debut as a director in 2013 with the première of his first opera, based on Iain Banks' renown 1984 novel, The Wasp Factory.
These various collaborations and alliances underline Frost’s continuing fascination with finding ways of juxtaposing music, rhythm, technology, the body, performance, text, art - beauty and violence - combining and coalescing the roles and procedures of various artistic disciplines in one place.
Ben Frost - FAR - (2010)
Wayne McGregor’s dynamic style and groundbreaking collaborative approach across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science has fuelled a string of truly unique works. FAR, which made its world premiere at Sadler’s Wells in 2010, is no exception.
Danced by an ensemble of ten incredible performers, FAR is set to a haunting score by the critically acclaimed composer Ben Frost and features lighting by Lucy Carter, set by rAndom International and costumes by Moritz Junge.
A prolific dance maker and the first resident choreographer of The Royal Ballet to come from contemporary dance, in the past year alone McGregor has delivered world premieres for Paris Opera Ballet, The Royal Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Radiohead and Elton John. In January 2011, Wayne McGregor was awarded a CBE for his services to dance. His company Wayne McGregor | Random Dance is a Resident Company at Sadler’s Wells.
Ben Frost - Black Marrow - (2009)
Chunky Move Dance Company
By Erna Ómarsdóttir & Damien Jalet
Music by Ben Frost featuring Oren Ambarchi, Borgar Magnason,
Nico Muhly and Helgi Hrafn Jónson
Costume and Production Design by Alexandra Mein
World Premiere, Melbourne Australia 2009
http://ethermachines.com/together/black-marrow/
- "For much of its hour Black Marrow is more like avant garde physical theatre than straightforward contemporary dance. Choreographers Erna Omarsdottir and Damien Jalet have burst through the boundaries by bringing spoken word, grotesque carny and smatterings of Brecht into the mix. The upshot is a fluttering, disturbing, concept driven piece that skirts a line between the didactic and the visceral.
Its apocalyptic themes are apparent from the outset as shapes heave and writhe beneath a layer of ooze and Ben Frost’s dark rumbling electronic soundscape clicks and burbles with ominous intent. . . . .
Dance Informa
"This new short film by Gael Garcia Bernal and Marc Silver, details the plight of the tens of thousands of men, women and children who leave their homes in Central and South America each year to travel across Mexico in search of a better life in the USA.
Inspired by the stories of the people who make this journey through Mexico, actor and director Gael García Bernal and director Marc Silver joined forces with Amnesty International to shine a light on the abuses migrants suffer. Told over four parts, the film is a shocking look at a world many people would rather you didn’t know about.
Ben Frost’s soundtrack offers a stark and emotive backdrop to the film, enhancing the already breathtaking and moving scenes captured as the Invisibles’ stories unfolds. We’re hugely grateful to Ben for donating all proceeds from sales directly to Amnesty International.
A Film by Julia Leigh
Music Written & Performed by Ben Frost
Music Recorded & Produced by Ben Frost and Paul Corley
Additional Programming & Sound Design Paul Corley
Violins by Una Sveinbjarnardóttir
Mixed & Produced at Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavík, Iceland
2011
http://ethermachines.com/together/sleeping-beauty/"Death-haunted, quietly reckless, Lucy is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty Chamber old men seek an erotic experience that requires Lucy’s absolute submission. This unsettling task starts to bleed into Lucy’s daily life and she develops an increasing need to know what happens to her when she is asleep."
EDIT: august 2017
This post is restored from the wayback machine because just about everything was gone after one of the Emusers "upgrades"
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Welcome to this special Amnesty International download page for the Ben Frost soundtrack to The Invisibles.
- "This new short film by Gael Garcia Bernal and Marc Silver, details the plight of the tens of thousands of men, women and children who leave their homes in Central and South America each year to travel across Mexico in search of a better life in the USA.
Inspired by the stories of the people who make this journey through Mexico, actor and director Gael García Bernal and director Marc Silver joined forces with Amnesty International to shine a light on the abuses migrants suffer. Told over four parts, the film is a shocking look at a world many people would rather you didnt know about.
Ben Frosts soundtrack offers a stark and emotive backdrop to the film, enhancing the already breathtaking and moving scenes captured as the Invisibles stories unfolds. Were hugely grateful to Ben for donating all proceeds from sales directly to Amnesty International.
Download the album now and help Amnesty International to help migrants in Mexico. Free bonus material with every download.
To watch the film, take action and read more about Amnesty International's Mexico campaign visit:
http://www.youtube.com/user/invisiblesfilms"
Message from Ben Frost:
- "I first had the opportunity to work with Marc Silver a few years ago when he invited me to compose music for a film he made inspired by the swarming phenomenon of birds - the images in that film were overwhelmingly powerful and yet - given the current prevalence of technology and extraneous manipulation of the medium of film that is readily available to every film maker today - they were by contrast unbelievably raw and untouched - a series of incredible moments captured and sewn together, without agenda and without interference.
Marc Silver doesn't construct drama - he creates space for it to occur and similarly that is what this score is about; a space, a series of spaces within a space in fact.
You, the public, don't need my music to heighten the inherent tragedy and drama of the Invisibles, and you don't need my music to tell you this situation needs your attention, because through this film, the people, their stories and the spaces that surround them speak every word that needs to be said.
If there is one thing I want more than anything for you to walk away with from this music, it was and is the overwhelming sense of quiet strength, and of hope."
- Ben Frost, 5th November 2010 Reykjavík Iceland
Added to his Soundcloud page 5 days ago (the first in four years):
'Venter' - taken from Ben Frost's forthcoming album A U R O R A, out 26/27 May 2014 on Mute / Bedroom Community
Ben Frost - Live at St Katherines (Unsound Festival 2008)
- "Ben Frost's stunning performance from Unsound Krakow 2008, in St Katherine's, a 16th century Gothic church. The recording was made from the audience seating area, rather than via the mixing desk, to capture a sense of the church's massive interior and acoustics. At Unsound 2009, Biosphere and Stars of the Lid will perform in the same space."
- IDM
- Nolan
Performed by Ben Frost with Shahzad Ismaily, Greg Fox and Thor Harris.
Additional Sound Designs and Production by Lawrence English and Tim Hecker.
- "A U R O R A is Ben Frosts highly anticipated fifth solo release, his first since the widely acclaimed 2009 album BY THE THROAT.
A U R O R A aims directly, through its monolithic construction, at blinding luminescent alchemy; not with benign heavenly beauty but through decimating magnetic force.
This is no pristine vision of digital music, it is a filthy, uncivilized offering of interrupted future time where emergency flares illuminate ruined nightclubs and the faith of the dancefloor rests in a diesel-powered generator spewing forth its own extinction, eating rancid fuel so loudly it threatens to overrun the very music it is powering."
- Bandcamp
- "A U R O R A, Frosts fifth studio album, will be preceded by a series of live dates, launching with a performance at the Village Underground, London, on 26 April and festival appearances including Sonar in June and ATP Iceland in July.
Performed by Ben Frost with Greg Fox, Shahzad Ismaily and Thor Harris and largely written in Eastern DR Congo, A U R O R A aims directly, through its monolithic construction, at blinding luminescent alchemy; not with benign heavenly beauty but through decimating magnetic force.
Starved of all the adornments of its predecessor; wholly absent of guitar, of piano, of string instruments and natural wooden intimacy, A U R O R A offers a defant new world of fiercely synthetic shapes and galactic interference, pummeling skins and pure metals."
- Mute Records
Ben Frost - The Wasp Factory
- Jay !
Ben Frost - The Wasp Factory
- "In advance of new music from Ben Frost in 2017, Bedroom Community is excited to present the definitive recorded version of his 2013 opera and directorial stage debut, The Wasp Factory, based on the novel by the late Iain Banks.- Also on Emusic.
In the summer of 2016 Ben Frost landed in Chicago to work with Steve Albini. Over two weeks - vast systems; unstable, overloaded, and on the verge of collapse - were fed into an array of amplifiers inside a cavernous studio. Shapes were formed, speakers were torn. Behind the glass Albini committed live performances to tape; slashing at them intermittently with a razorblade. More than 2 hours of music was recorded. The Threshold of Faith EP is the first release of music from those sessions.
Steve Albini
- Including the new Ben Frost album:
BTW, Bedroom Community is moving on Emusic again