Ben Frost

Ben Frost is an Australian/Icelandic composer, sound artist, and stage director. His work spans studio recordings, live performance, installation, and collaborations across dance, theatre, and film.

Frost’s acclaimed studio albums include Theory of Machines (2007), By The Throat (2010), Aurora (2014), The Centre Cannot Hold (2017), and Scope Neglect (2024). 

His music for film and television includes Sleeping Beauty (dir. Julia Leigh), Palestine 36 (dir. Annemarie Jacir), Raised By Wolves (dir. Ridley Scott), and Die My Love (dir. Lynne Ramsay), and the cult series Dark.

In 2011 Brian Eno selected Frost as his protégé as part of the Rolex Arts Initiative. His decade-long collaboration with artist Richard Mosse has produced three award-winning multi-channel sound and video installations: The Enclave (2013), Incoming (2017), and Broken Spectre (2022) which have been exhibited in museums and festivals around the world.

Frost has written and directed two operas: The Wasp Factory (2013), based on the novel by Iain Banks, and The Murder of Halit Yozgat (2021), developed with London-based research agency Forensic Architecture.

His current work focuses increasingly on large-scale sound installations and sculptural adaptations of PA systems. Ecological and political realities often underpin Frost’s work, though its impact is invariably more direct: sound as an immediate, physical medium.

Frost is currently artist in residence at the Onassis Foundation in Athens, Greece where he developing a third opera; Prometheus.