Monday 23 October 2017, 7.30pm
Félicia Atkinson is a French composer and visual artist. After recording serveral records under the Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier moniker, she has been releasing music under her own name since 2013. Having moved to the French Alps for two years she recorded her highly acclaimed album “A Readymade Ceremony” and the material for her collaborative album with NY-based musician Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.
With those two albums, she reached a milestone in her musical research, defining the seminal elements of her composition tools: concrete music, asmr voices, minimal electronics, field recordings, improvisation with guitar and piano, abstract distortions and infra basses, always held by a strong sense of musical harmony.
Her latest release, “Hand in Hand”, is easily her most ambitious to date. It sees Atkinson foreground her voice, whilst limiting other instrumental elements to an almost austere minimum, thus creating space – somewhat reminiscent of dub music – for her lyrical experiments to assume a rare presence and materiality.
https://feliciaatkinson.bandcamp.com
http://feliciaatkinson.com
Lee Fraser (b. 1981) is an English composer based in Turin, Italy. His work explores notions of interiority, liminality, and the Outside, and is characterised by an ongoing concern with synthetic sound and complex auditory experiences. He has received commissions from the BBC, Distractfold, Ensemble Adapter, Galeria Duarte Sequeira, the Royal Academy, and others, and released two albums of his music to date, on Entr’acte (2014) and Ge-stell (2018), with a third scheduled for release in 2024 by Cripta747, which will be accompanied by a book of essays from Fraser and other contributors.
