Ben Frost, composer of the Wasp Factory opera, has signed a deal with Mute Song, the music publishing arm of the Mute group.
Ben has inked a worldwide music publishing agreement with the company to help seek out future projects and opportunities.
His first opera, The Wasp Factory based on the late Iain Bank’s infamous 1984 novel of the same name, premiered at the Royal Opera House earlier this month.
Ben has already enjoyed a lengthy career working in experimental music. He relocated to Reykjavík in 2005 to form the Bedroom Community record label/collective and released a series of well received electronic albums.
According to Mute, Ben’s albums ‘fused intensely structured sound art with militant post-classical electronic music, shape-shifting physical power with immersive melody, concentrated minimalism with fierce, rupturing dark metal’.
In 2010 he was picked by Brian Eno as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protegé program for a year of collaboration. The two worked together on a range of projects both in and outside the recording studio.
He has also worked on music for a number of films including the original score for the Palme d ?Or nominated Sleeping Beauty by Julia Leigh and the score for Djúpið by Icelandic Director Baltasar Kormákur.
Ben has inked a worldwide music publishing agreement with the company to help seek out future projects and opportunities.
His first opera, The Wasp Factory based on the late Iain Bank’s infamous 1984 novel of the same name, premiered at the Royal Opera House earlier this month.
Ben has already enjoyed a lengthy career working in experimental music. He relocated to Reykjavík in 2005 to form the Bedroom Community record label/collective and released a series of well received electronic albums.
According to Mute, Ben’s albums ‘fused intensely structured sound art with militant post-classical electronic music, shape-shifting physical power with immersive melody, concentrated minimalism with fierce, rupturing dark metal’.
In 2010 he was picked by Brian Eno as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protegé program for a year of collaboration. The two worked together on a range of projects both in and outside the recording studio.
He has also worked on music for a number of films including the original score for the Palme d ?Or nominated Sleeping Beauty by Julia Leigh and the score for Djúpið by Icelandic Director Baltasar Kormákur.
