Sydney Festival
BEN FROST
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WHAT IS IT
With Frost’s critically acclaimed 2017 LP The Centre Cannot Hold as a departure point, Widening Gyre combines the unique studio approach of the album into a new live performance concept: a powerful and highly volatile multi-point sound environment performed in the round. Created as part of a residency at ZKM Karlsruhe, Widening Gyre sees Frost dive deep into the physicality of spatialisation. Synthesis, analogue tape and live guitars are all fed in real-time through an array of digital objects which relentlessly push and pull against one another in a new kaleidoscope of sonic ecology.
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DISTINCTIVE FEATURES
The performance creates a sound environment in the round, with the audience surrounding the stage inside a circle of speakers
Frost’s style has been compared to ambient music artist Brian Eno, who mentored him for a year
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ARTISTS & SPOKESPEOPLE
Ben Frost (artist)
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ARTIST INFORMATION
Ben Frost is an Australian composer and producer, now based in Iceland. Frost composes minimalist, instrumental and experimental music, with influences ranging from classical minimalism to punk rock and black metal.
A member of the Icelandic music collective and label Bedroom Community, he was selected to be mentored for a year by Brian Eno as part of the Rolex Mentors & Protégés Initiative in 2010. Along with his album releases, Frost has also written music for dance and theatre performances, co-produced a video-game soundtrack and scored a film and TV series. Most recently he provided the soundtrack to acclaimed Netflix’s German-language supernatural thriller Dark.
Frost’s latest release, The Centre Cannot Hold was produced by revered American sound engineer Steve Albini. Recorded in Chicago over ten days, the album “unleashes volleys of brutalizing electronic sound as an allegory for the grim state of the world” (Pitchfork).
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SHOW DETAILS
Ben Frost – Widening Gyre
Genre: Music
Where: Carriageworks
When: 12 January, 2019
Price: $49 + booking fee
Duration: 60 minutes
Link
Telephone: 1300 856 876
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