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.

Piano and Fender Rhodes melodies create an emotional link between abstract moments. They live in our memory, like an imaginary remembrance or a daydream.

 Atkinson lives on the wild coast of Normandy and has played music since the early 2000s after studying at the Beaux-arts de Paris. Her music practice has always been linked to the art world, hence the importance of abstract colors in her musical tonalities.

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), Volksbühne (Berlin), the Barbican Center (London), Le Guess Who (Utrecht), Atonal (Berlin), Issue Project Room (NYC), Henie Onstad (Oslo), Unsound (Krakow), and Skanu Mesz (Riga).

Her work has been commissioned by filmmakers (Ben Rivers, Asher Rosen, Chivas de Vinck, Pier Philippe Chevigny) and fashion houses (Prada, Burberry). She has exhibited in museums, galleries, and biennials including RIBOCA Biennale (Riga), Biennale Son (Sion), Overgaden (Copenhagen), BOZAR (Brussels), Espace Paul Ricard (Paris), and MUCA ROMA (Mexico City)

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Lisa Lerkenfeldt is an Australian composer and performer based in Melbourne.

Over the past four years she has enchanted audiences as an expanding force in contemporary classical and ambient music. Her gently glitched piano recitals span genres and melt time. Primarily using the piano, analogue tape systems and contemporary digital software she blends tradition and experimentation.

In 2020 she joined the roster of esteemed French imprint Shelter Press alongside heavyweights Félicia Atkinson and Claire Rousay, via her debut EP A Liquor Of Daisies and LP Collagen. Water Up To Her Knees — an electro acoustic work and film- premiered in November 2022. Following national tours of Australia and Japan, in 2024 she was a composer in residence at INA GRM Paris. In June 2024 she premiered the multichannel work In The Window Of Time at Le Centquatre, commissioned by INA GRM.