Félicia Atkinson

Félicia Atkinson was born in Paris in 1981 and lives on the wild coast of Normandy. She has been composing music since the early 2000s. She has released numerous albums and a novel on Shelter Press, the label and publisher she co-manages with Bartolomé Sanson.

She has collaborated with musicians such as Jefre Cantu Ledesma, Chris Watson, Christina Vantzou and Stephen O’Malley, as well as with ensembles such as Eklekto (Geneva) and Neon (Oslo).

She has performed in venues and festivals such as INA GRM/Maison de la Radio and the Philharmonie (Paris), Issue Project Room (NYC), the Barbican Center (London), Le Guess Who (Utrecht), Sonic Acts (Amsteerdam), Atonal (Berlin), Henie Onstad (Oslo), Unsound (Krakow) and Skanu Mesz (Riga)… Her work has been commissioned by film-makers (Ben Rivers, Chivas de Vinck) and fashion houses (Prada, Burberry). She has exhibited in museums, galleries and biennials, including the RIBOCA Biennial (Riga), Overgaden (Copenhagen), BOZAR (Brussels), La Criée (Rennes), Kunsthaus Bethanien Kreuzberg (Berlin), Espace Paul Ricard (Paris) and MUCA ROMA (Mexico).

For Félicia Atkinson, human voices inhabit a certain ecology alongside and within many other things that do not speak: landscapes, images, books, memories, ideas…

The French electroacoustic composer and visual artist creates plastic and sound works that bring these other possible voices to life in conversation with her own, in association with her own.