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Melbourne, Australia (2001 – present)

Ben Frost (born 1980 in Melbourne, Australia, now based in Reykjavík, Iceland) is a musician, composer and producer, whose early work included the independently released EP Music for Sad Children (2000) and for his band School of Emotional Engineering. However Frost is probably most widely recognized for his music drawing widely on influences of , , and best demonstrated on the 2007 release Theory of Machines.

Frost’s compositional catalog includes Music for Sad Children (2001, independently produced and released), the ambient guitar exploration Steel Wound (2003, and reissued in 2007, Room40), described by Pitchfork Media as “an exemplary ambient experience”, and the widely critically acclaimed LP Theory of Machines on the Icelandic record label Bedroom Community, an album which earned Frost huge critical acclaim and it could be said, cemented his place as an artist on the global stage.

Ben Frost has performed and collaborated with acclaimed artists such as Amiina, American composer Nico Muhly, Tim Hecker and Björk. He is the closest collaborator of Icelandic producer/engineer/composer Valgeir Sigurðsson in Greenhouse Studios Reykjavik Iceland, often contributing programming work to Sigurðsson’s productions. It is within Greenhouse that the majority of Frost’s work is produced, often in collaboration of Sigurðsson. Frost is a member of the Icelandic music collective/record label Bedroom Community.
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  • xxxKillianxxx

    can anyone recommend me anything similar to Music For Sad Children? i couldnt find anything like it

    13 May 2:21pm Reply

  • elcruusto

    All music has the dimension of time. What is music but sounds organised in time? I also noticed you used the word "frequency" which relates entirely to the speed at which sound moves over time. enough of that though. I think what you mean is, music that doesn't utilize a regular rhythmic pulse. But I think it is simplistic dense to suggest that the only thing which communicates emotion in music high frequency. If you want to be entirely unscientific about it, there can be far more than just three dimensions to music. Yes Industrial and noise music can be chaotic, but to assume that the music of Xenakis, Prévost, Rowe & the AMM guys or even Schaeffer, Stockhausen, Wishart, Jony Harrison, David Berezan etc is "NOISY" or "CHAOTIC" presents a profound misunderstanding of the amount of CONTROL and DETAIL that has gone into that music. It's absolutely fine to be a noise purist but just dont be a dick about it!

    7 May 4:01pm Reply

  • TeatroAssente

    im not idealizing 3 dimensional music here. but noise is in fact such a music like that. cause its about embracing 'chaos' in you. Therefore you can see yourself as a object and you can see in 3 dimensional way. rhythm is for the people who cant handle chaos in themselves. AMM, Xenakis, The New Blockaders, MEV, Thomas Ankersmit, Horatiu Radulescu, Sachiko M and so on. these are good examples for noise. now noise is beeing used as a toy to excrement superficial feelings... in a so called powerful and cathartic way. it might be for you, have fun with it, but this music is too narrow minded for me. im the purist here, i know that my behaviour sounds stupid but in the end: who cares.

    6 May 9:41pm Reply

  • TeatroAssente

    Powerful and cathartic music? good. well... i checked your profile. you only listen to music with 2 dimensions... (no ad hominem here) rhythm(instincs and impulses) and treble sounds(feelings thoughts) but actually music may have 3 dimensions, the third dimension is time. and music with rhythm lacks that dimenson. cause rhythm kills the freedom of sense of 'time' in music. music with a rhythm in it is all about anal pleasure. İts like shitting, peeing... all the same. catharsis is excrementing bad feelings isnt it? i dont judge anal pleasure here, but music with rhythm lacks purity, lacks 3 dimensional imagination. calling a 2 dimensional pretentious music powerful is... well you name it. all i feel from his music is someone is peeing his feelings... because he cant handle them in himself, he excrements them in a perfumed way. When you can handle the feelings in you: in other terms when you dont need rhythm in your music you catch purity and balance between 'time' and 'you'

    6 May 9:33pm Reply

  • elcruusto

    @ TeatroAssente and everyone else: I think if you judge Ben Frost purely on his credentials as a noise musician you miss the point completely and miss out on something really great. Yes, he uses noise- so did Trent Reznor and loads of other people far more "mainstream" than the Frostmeister- but the "whole" that he carves it into is (unlike Prurient or whaever) is instinctively communicative in terms of the emotion it gives to the listener. To dismiss this powerful and cathartic music as hipster music seems to me quite narrow minded. This aint exactly catwalk shit, right? This is challenging, confrontational and uncompromising music made by some guy who lives in a mountain hut north of Reykjavik. It takes influence from loads of different things, noise being one of them- and personally I don't give a flying monkey-cunt whether this is "noise music" or not.

    6 May 6:36pm Reply

  • socbless

    судя по твитам его сейчас другое заботит

    1 May 12:47pm Reply

  • MikaelRikhard

    что-то с альбомом новым не торопится

    27 Apr 7:16pm Reply

  • whalleywhat

    I'd say this is more like electroacoustic composition meets something like Mogwai. By The Throat could be the soundtrack to a major film and a lot of people probably wouldn't bat an eyelash. It's reminiscent of those Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross soundtracks, albeit with the intensity ratcheted up a fair amount.

    16 Apr 6:44am Reply

  • _Halleluhwah

    ''noise is about the melancholy of bringing back the illusion of meaningful life'' why is this so funny

    13 Apr 7:41pm Reply

  • Lysandr

    @TeatroAssente "i know that i sound like a purist" - well yes, when you compare Ben Frost to nu-metal, you're likely to come off as way too far up your own ass. Just because he uses a lot of distortion doesn't mean he's a noise musician. Noise a predominantly an atonal affair and Frost is very tonal.

    2 Apr 12:37am Reply

  • MalgreMoi

    Ben's the best

    23 Mar 7:57pm Reply

  • sadandboring

    это лучшее, что я когда-либо слышал.

    23 Mar 6:09pm Reply

  • stretts

    Adelaide show was fucking amazing

    23 Mar 7:58am Reply

  • mortauxvaches_

    I really like Ben Frost's work, but I also agree partially with TeatroAssente (couldn't agree more with the perfume). People seem to not appreciate when someone criticize their 'idols'. At least Teatro's 'negative' commentary offers more than 'cool', 'great stuff', 'amazing sounds'.

    20 Mar 11:20pm Reply

  • smoggod

    Excellent opinion......now fuck off :)

    20 Mar 6:15pm Reply

  • TeatroAssente

    you know nu-metal? good. do you remember how disgusting it is? i still do. Ben Frost is nu-noise, its even more irritating. noise is about the melancholy of bringing back the illusion of meaningful life. Ben Frost is noise music without any content, motive, method... and more importantly... this music has no opposite to fight against. noise is about giving a inner, emotional fight against something. even though its about giving a fight, noise never tries to win, as a motive, the goal of noise aesthetic is reaching to the 'zero'. They were doing it 20 years before of 'Fight Club'. Ben Frost vacuumed the content of the noise, the soul of noise, and revived it like a zombie. clothed it with hipster clothes, sprayed expensive perfumes all around, putted a good looking hat, and represented like a pop music. i know that i sound like a purist but still, Ben Frost is very superficial bullshit. nothing more nothing less.

    19 Mar 12:48pm Reply

  • huiva

    Hi. Listen to: Russian post rock / ambient / drone / instrumental http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Joywcs/MOONSHINE http://soundcloud.com/joywcs/sets/moonshine-single-2012/

    10 Mar 9:51pm Reply

  • Kristman

    He DID play in Melbourne, for I'll Be Your Mirror, but in perhaps the most catastrophically shortsighted management decision ever witnessed in the history of line-up planning at music festivals he clashed with Swans. It makes no sense.

    5 Mar 1:50am Reply

  • Dr_MoonOrGun

    If anyone has the Ben Frost + Bara Yoon tracks, it would be super cool if you'd be willing to share them. And I think Mr. Frost IS working on something new.

    25 Feb 1:48am Reply

  • Mort13

    make something new man

    19 Feb 1:24pm Reply
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