Félicia Atkinson

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 drawings and installations are at the frontier of abstraction and figuration, through a singular point of view, one, maybe animal or vegetal, or the myopic person she is when she removed her glasses, where objects and creature, as the Middle Age poet Sei Shonagon could put looking appear as ” things that are far yet near”. Her visual works is inspired by the drawings of John Cage as well as the works on paper of an Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell or Milton Avery: a landscape, or perhaps the blurred dream of it.

Atkinson graduated with a MFA with honours from Les Beaux Arts de Paris. She 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).

Felicia is a regular on NTS radio and championed by the numerous hosts including the amazing Jack Rollo from Time is Away fame, and many others music/ sound lumineries such as the WIRE. Her work is seen as a huge influence of many artosts working at intersection of sound, music, field recording and the art of storytelling. Recent records released include Sans Visage, and Relections vol 3 water poems with Christina Vantzou in 2026 and in 2025 the limited k7 release Promenade and the collaborative Annie A, with Félicia Atkinson, Time is Away, Christina Petrie and Maxine Funke.

Live Performance