Félicia Atkinson

For Félicia Atkinson, human voices inhabit an ecology alongside 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. Her layered compositions tell stories that 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.