Félicia Atkinson
NEWS
- 05/11/2024
Félicia Atkinson : nouvelle signature
Murailles Music a l’honneur et le plaisir d’accueillir en ses rangs la compositrice, musicienne, et plasticienne Felicia Atkinson. Son oeuvre est déjà riche et remarquée, de disques solo en collaborations diverses, de concerts méditatifs, d’expositions en plateformes aventureuses. Elle pense, creuse et pratique avec une espèce de fièvre calme l’infinie possibilité des passages entre improvisation musicale, ready made,
BIO
For Félicia Atkinson, human voices inhabit an ecology alongside and within many other things that don’t speak, in the conventional sense: landscapes, images, books, memories, ideas. The French electro-acoustic composer and visual artist makes music that animates these other possible voices in conversation with her own, collaging field recording, MIDI instrumentation, and snippets of essayistic language in both French and English. Her own voice, always shifting to make space, might whisper from the corner or assume another character’s tone. Atkinson uses composing as a way to process imaginative and creative life, frequently engaging with the work of visual artists, filmmakers, and novelists. Her layered compositions tell stories that alternately stretch and fold time and place, stories in which she is the narrator but not the protagonist.
Atkinson lives on the wild coast of Normandy and has played music since the early 2000s. She has released many records and a novel on Shelter Press, the label and publisher she co-runs with Bartolomé Sanson. She has collaborated with musicians including Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Chris Watson, Christina Vantzou, and Stephen O’Malley, and with ensembles including Eklekto (Geneva) and Neon (Oslo). She has performed at venues and festivals including INA GRM/Maison de la Radio and the Philharmonie (Paris), Issue Project Room (NYC), the Barbican Center (London), Le Guess Who (Utrecht), Atonal (Berlin), Henie Onstad (Oslo), Unsound (Krakow), and Skanu Mesz (Riga). Her work has been commissioned by filmmakers (Ben Rivers, Chivas de Vinck) and fashion houses (Prada, Burberry). She has exhibited in museums, galleries, and biennials including RIBOCA Biennale (Riga), Overgaden (Copenhagen), BOZAR (Brussels), Espace Paul Ricard (Paris), and MUCA ROMA (Mexico City).
#1 ‘Space As An Instrument’: laptop, grand piano, fender rhodes, vocals
#2 laptop, grand piano, vocals
#3 laptop + fender rhodes, vocals
Commissioned by Arts Centre VIERNULVIER & Film Fest Gent for Videodroom
#1 Christina Vantzou + Félicia Atkinson: laptop, gong, grand piano, fender rhodes, vocals
#2 Chris Watson + Félicia Atkinson: laptop, grand piano, modular, quadraphonic or multiphonic vocals
#5 Jefre Cantu-Ledesma + Félicia Atkinson: laptop, gong, grand piano, fender rhodes, vocals, modular
LINKS
PRESS
Art Forum
“Lofty and weird as it appears in this work, that movement is derived from actions as simple as reading, looking, hearing, speaking. Atkinson’s version of art music, informal and deeply serious all the same, feels close because it is woven from life.”
Pitchfork
“Atkinson’s work frequently references a complex web of concepts, histories and philosophies, but the most satisfying way to listen is to let go of any preconceptions and engage with it second by second, taking it in as you might a landscape or a particularly vivid dream.”
CONTACT
Booking : Julien Bitaudeau
Promo : Varvara Papaspanopoulou
TAGS
Le chuchotement des dunes (Vivanto pour Mondes Nouveaux, 2022)
'Adaptation Assez Facile' (2017)
'Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante' (INA grm, octobre 2021)
'Ghost Ranch' performed by Eklekto (Biennale Son, 2023)
live with Violeta Azevedo at Semibreve Festival, 2022
DISCOGRAPHIE
Space As An Instrument
Shelter Press2024
LP / CD / Digital
Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante (Pour Georgia O’Keeffe)
Portraits GRM2023
LP / Digital
Image Langage
Shelter Press / La Becque Editions2022
LP / CD / Digital
Echo
Boomkat2021
LP / Digital
Everything Evaporate
Shelter Press / Mute Song Limited2020
K7, Digital
The Flower And The Vessel
Shelter Press2019
LP / CD / Digital
Hand In Hand
Shelter Press2017
Digital
A Readymade Ceremony
Shelter Press2015
LP / Digital
Visions / Voices
UMOR REX RECORDS2013
Digital
O-RE-GON
Home Normal2011
Digital
Past shows
- DateCountryCityVenuewith
- 02/07/2025EspagneBarcelona (ES)Casa Montjuïcinfos event
- 01/17/2025FranceParis (75)Le TrabendoAlessandro Cortiniinfos event
- 01/16/2025FranceLyon (69)Le Périscopeinfos event
- 01/15/2025FranceRennes (35)Festival Autres Mesures, Les Champs Libres (12h)infos event
- 12/13/2024FranceMontreuil (93)Théâtre Berthelot, Zone de Silence (orgas. Instants Chavirés et COAX)Stéphanie Lotion, Megabasse, Eggregoreinfos
- 11/03/2024FranceParis (75)Présences Electroniques, Maison de la Radio (18h30)duo avec Chris Watsoninfos event
- 10/24/2024FranceDijon (21)Festival MV, Musée archéologique de Dijoninfos event
- 10/13/2024BelgiqueGhent (BE)Videodroom Festival, Miry Concertzaal (orga. Viernulvier)ciné-concert 'Les Yeux Sans Visage'infos event
- 09/21/2024MexiqueMexico (MX)Festival Poesía en Voz Alta, Casa del Lago UNAM creation 'Thinking Iceberg'infos
- 07/12/2024Grande-BretagneLondres (UK)St John’s ChurchOren Ambarchi infos
- 06/22/2024FranceRegneville-sur-mer (50)Chateau de Regneville-sur-mer - 18hdans le cadre de l'exposition de Félicia Atkinson, 'CHOSES QUI SONT PROCHES ET LOINTAINES A LA FOIS'infos
- 06/15/2024FranceMesnil Hue, Gavray-sur-Sienne (50)Église Saint Etienne - 18hconcert de musique électroacoustique et installation textileinfos
- 05/25/2024FranceEvreux (27)Les yeux fermés (filature Levavasseur)Diane Barbé - Nova Materiainfos event
- 10/01/2023FranceReims (51)Opéra de Reims (orga. Césaré CNCM/Reims) création 'Rêves électroniques Chaque Ombre Creusée par le Soleil'infos
- 04/15/2023FranceParis (75)ENSBA Paris, Mondes Nouveauxinfos
- 10/09/2022FranceRennes (35)Festival Maintenant, la salle de la Cité duo avec Violeta Azevedoinfos event
- 07/22/2022FranceLyon (69)Les Nuits Sonores infos event
- 06/25/2022FranceLyon (69)Superspectives, Maison de Loretteinfos event
- 01/26/2022FranceLe Mans (72)Le Mans Sonore, soirée Akousma avec l'INA GRMinfos event
- 10/31/2021FranceParis (75)Présences Electroniques, Maison de la Radiocréation 'Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante'infos
- 10/02/2021FranceParis (75)Philharmonie de Paris, Nuit Blanche : Nuit ambient duo avec Christina Vantzou /// Kali Malone, Suzanne Ciani, Chloéinfos
- 06/12/2021FranceParis (75)La Gaîté Lyrique, Les yeux fermésinfos
- 09/12/2020FranceNantes (44)lieu unique, Ars Electronica à Nantesinfos
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Le chuchotement des dunes (Vivanto pour Mondes Nouveaux, 2022)
-
'Adaptation Assez Facile' (2017)
-
'Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante' (INA grm, octobre 2021)
-
'Ghost Ranch' performed by Eklekto (Biennale Son, 2023)
-
live with Violeta Azevedo at Semibreve Festival, 2022
NEWS
- 05/11/2024
Félicia Atkinson : nouvelle signature
Murailles Music a l’honneur et le plaisir d’accueillir en ses rangs la compositrice, musicienne, et plasticienne Felicia Atkinson. Son oeuvre est déjà riche et remarquée, de disques solo en collaborations diverses, de concerts méditatifs, d’expositions en plateformes aventureuses. Elle pense, creuse et pratique avec une espèce de fièvre calme l’infinie possibilité des passages entre improvisation musicale, ready made,
BIO
For Félicia Atkinson, human voices inhabit an ecology alongside and within many other things that don’t speak, in the conventional sense: landscapes, images, books, memories, ideas. The French electro-acoustic composer and visual artist makes music that animates these other possible voices in conversation with her own, collaging field recording, MIDI instrumentation, and snippets of essayistic language in both French and English. Her own voice, always shifting to make space, might whisper from the corner or assume another character’s tone. Atkinson uses composing as a way to process imaginative and creative life, frequently engaging with the work of visual artists, filmmakers, and novelists. Her layered compositions tell stories that alternately stretch and fold time and place, stories in which she is the narrator but not the protagonist.
Atkinson lives on the wild coast of Normandy and has played music since the early 2000s. She has released many records and a novel on Shelter Press, the label and publisher she co-runs with Bartolomé Sanson. She has collaborated with musicians including Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Chris Watson, Christina Vantzou, and Stephen O’Malley, and with ensembles including Eklekto (Geneva) and Neon (Oslo). She has performed at venues and festivals including INA GRM/Maison de la Radio and the Philharmonie (Paris), Issue Project Room (NYC), the Barbican Center (London), Le Guess Who (Utrecht), Atonal (Berlin), Henie Onstad (Oslo), Unsound (Krakow), and Skanu Mesz (Riga). Her work has been commissioned by filmmakers (Ben Rivers, Chivas de Vinck) and fashion houses (Prada, Burberry). She has exhibited in museums, galleries, and biennials including RIBOCA Biennale (Riga), Overgaden (Copenhagen), BOZAR (Brussels), Espace Paul Ricard (Paris), and MUCA ROMA (Mexico City).
#1 ‘Space As An Instrument’: laptop, grand piano, fender rhodes, vocals
#2 laptop, grand piano, vocals
#3 laptop + fender rhodes, vocals
Commissioned by Arts Centre VIERNULVIER & Film Fest Gent for Videodroom
#1 Christina Vantzou + Félicia Atkinson: laptop, gong, grand piano, fender rhodes, vocals
#2 Chris Watson + Félicia Atkinson: laptop, grand piano, modular, quadraphonic or multiphonic vocals
#5 Jefre Cantu-Ledesma + Félicia Atkinson: laptop, gong, grand piano, fender rhodes, vocals, modular
LINKS
PRESS
Art Forum
“Lofty and weird as it appears in this work, that movement is derived from actions as simple as reading, looking, hearing, speaking. Atkinson’s version of art music, informal and deeply serious all the same, feels close because it is woven from life.”
Pitchfork
“Atkinson’s work frequently references a complex web of concepts, histories and philosophies, but the most satisfying way to listen is to let go of any preconceptions and engage with it second by second, taking it in as you might a landscape or a particularly vivid dream.”
DISCOGRAPHIE
Space As An Instrument
Shelter Press2024
LP / CD / Digital
Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante (Pour Georgia O’Keeffe)
Portraits GRM2023
LP / Digital
Image Langage
Shelter Press / La Becque Editions2022
LP / CD / Digital
Echo
Boomkat2021
LP / Digital
Everything Evaporate
Shelter Press / Mute Song Limited2020
K7, Digital
The Flower And The Vessel
Shelter Press2019
LP / CD / Digital
Hand In Hand
Shelter Press2017
Digital
A Readymade Ceremony
Shelter Press2015
LP / Digital
Visions / Voices
UMOR REX RECORDS2013
Digital
O-RE-GON
Home Normal2011
Digital
CONTACT
Booking : Julien Bitaudeau
Promo : Varvara Papaspanopoulou