Ben Frost is a composer, sound artist, and stage director. His work includes the studio albums Theory of Machines (2007), By The Throat (2009), AURORA (2014), The Centre Cannot Hold (2017) and Scope Neglect (2024) and spans an array of other forms including live performance, collaborations in dance, theatre, and film where he has composed several scores including the Palme d’Or-nominated Sleeping Beauty (dir. Julia Leigh), the cult series Dark, 1899, and Raised By Wolves (dir. Ridley Scott).  

 

In 2011, Frost was awarded a fellowship from Rolex Arts which resulted in several years of mentorship from electronic music pioneer and visual artist Brian Eno. Frost has collaborated extensively with the Irish artist Richard Mosse to produce three multi-channel video and sound  installations: The Enclave (2013), Incoming (2017) and Broken Spectre (2022). He has written and directed two operas - The Wasp Factory (2013) and The  Murder of Halit Yozgat (2021) - a collaboration with London-based research agency Forensic Architecture.

In recent years Frost has returned to his origins as a visual artist, producing several large scale physical installation and sculpture projects, focused on exploitation of the physicality of sound and decontextualisation of the audio technology which has defined his work as a musician, now reimagined as an innately physical, visual medium.