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.