Ben Frost

Ben Frost (born 1980) is an Australian-born musician, composer, record producer, sound designer and director based in Reykjavík, Iceland as of 2014.

[1] Frost has contributed to albums by Canadian electronic musician Tim Hecker and American experimental rock band Swans.

Born in Melbourne, Australia, and based in Reykjavík, Iceland, since 2005, Frost composes minimalist, instrumental, and experimental music,[2][3][4] with influences ranging from classical minimalism to punk rock and black metal.

In 2011, commissioned by Unsound Festival, and as part of a collaboration with Brian Eno and fellow Icelandic composer Daníel Bjarnason, Frost released Solaris, a conceptual album which rescored Andrei Tarkovsky's film of the same name.

[4] He composed the music for the films Sleeping Beauty, the Icelandic drama The Deep,[7] and the 2015 British television series Fortitude.

[27] Frost participated in the recording of the Swans albums The Seer, Leaving Meaning and The Beggar; he would also join as a touring member.