Francesco Fabris is an Italian, Reykjavík-based interdisciplinary artist, composer, and musician working with live electronics, audiovisual pieces, multimedia installations, and recording productions. His practice explores the translation of natural environments into abstract sonic and visual languages, merging digital and machine-driven processes with acoustic ecology, sound physics, field recordings, spatialization and data sonification, investigating the tension between expensive macrostructures and fragile, microscopic materialities.
His music has been released on labels including Bedroom Community (DISPLACES), Room40 (VAKNING, Meradalir w/ Ben Frost, STILL~AEOLIAN w/ Sandro Mussida), INNI, Until Riots, and his contributions span film, tv, theatre and opera, with credits including the OSCAR and BAFTA-winning score All Quiet on the Western Front, DARK, Conclave, Dune: Prophecy, Fresh, Silo, and more. In visual arts, he has scored and sound designed for multichannel films by Ailbhe Ní Bhriain and Sebastián Montalvo Gray, and created installations such as Stellar, Stored Void, and PETRA.
Resident at Greenhouse Studios (IS), he has collaborated with artists including Valgeir Sigurðsson, Jónsi, Swans, Lawrence English, Alex Somers, Dustin O’Halloran, Volker Bartelmann, Atli Örvarsson, 404.zero, and many others. Together with Kjartan Holm and Sin Fang is part of the experimental electronic project TJARA. He founded Outer Fields, a platform for field recording projects, plug-ins and sound libraries, and represents Quiet Park International in Iceland. Fabris has performed worldwide in clubs, festivals, galleries, residencies and theatres.