Francesco Fabris is an Italian, Reykjavík-based interdisciplinary artist, experimental composer, and musician working with audiovisual pieces, live electronics, multimedia installations, and recording studio productions as a producer and engineer.

His work investigates procedures that translate natural environments into abstract sonic and visual languages, often filtered through digital & machine-driven techniques, and musically exploring the intersection of intense, textural macrostructures with quiet, microscopic concrete elements.

His aesthetic emerges from interests in field recordings, acoustic ecology, sound physics and synthesis, audio spatialization, and data sonification as composition tools, with projects developed in a diverse array of environments such as glaciers, rainforests, oceans, volcanoes, urban and industrial spaces.

His has released via labels including Bedroom Community, Room40 (VAKNING, Meradalir w/ Ben Frost, STILL~AEOLIAN w/ Sandro Mussida), INNI and Until Riots.

His musical contributions include the OSCAR and BAFTA-winning score All Quiet on the Western Front, DARK series, Golden Globe, OSCAR and BAFTA nominated Conclave, Dune: Prophecy’, The Old Guard, Silo, Defending Jacob, Fresh and many other including video games, theatre plays, operas and stage artworks. 

In the visual arts, he has scored and sound designed Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s three-channel films The Dream Pool Intervals and An Experiment with Time, as well as DETONANTE, an upcoming work by photojournalist Sebastián Montalvo Gray, developed in the Amazon rainforest in the VRAEM region, following Peruvian military operations in the war on drugs.

He has created solo and collaborative installations such as Stellar, 2120: 42°35’04.2″N 9°17’57.7″E, Stored Void (w/ Blair Alexander), PETRA (w/ Ava Grayson), and Glitsteinar (w/ Kateřina Blahutová). Together with Kjartan Holm and Sin Fang is part of the experimental electronic project Tjara.

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, Damien Rice, Nadia Sirota, Kaleo, Talos, JFDR, Sandrayati, 404.zero, and many others.

He is the founder of ‘Outer Fields’, a platform for field recording based projects, sound 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.

Contacts: 

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Taking advantage of his past as a keyboard player in an electrorock band and the experience with the duo Pitch2Decide, the eclectic Electronic Expansion (aka Exel) challenge the contemporary club scene with a series of productions anything but banals and obvious: an effective mix of electro, funk, house and breaks, ingredients that make the final result very intriguing and funny.
Over the past four years, the Italo-South African producer has released official remixes for Zoot Woman, Monarchy, Middleman, Phinx, Plastic Fun, Miss Wonder, to which are added a good number of tracks, including "Daedalus", used live by several international artists, Mustard Pimp, first of all. In 2012 he released his first official EP, "Reckon with Funk" collecting a good number of consensus in the underground international scene. Most of these tracks has been powered by many international blogs in the past, like Data Sapiens, Stockholm Beat Connection and more.
For years it has also been linked to one of the coolest Italian party, the Tash-Dance, where he was resident DJ and member of the Trash-Dance Soundsystem with Auza (Torpedo AU), Butyreux (So French Rec) and others.
He toured throughout Italy, in London and in Cape Town, sharing the stage with artists like Mixhell, Mstrkrft, Drop the Lime, Shitdisco, Hostage, Subsonica and more.
Between 2012 and 2013 he produced two tracks at the Red Bull Music Studio in Cape Town for the 2013 Red Bull Beat Battle.

Hypnotic, Melodic, Raw Techno. 





Demo & infos:

EXODUS Recordings & M87 records:

Riccardo@syntheke.com 

"Sounds from the Earth crushed with machines for human beings"

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