Félicia Atkinson
I'm lucky to be part of an artist-in-residence programme in La Becque, Switzerland.
Where would you like to be?
Nowhere else, we've got a garden, a community, a lake, food, drinks, cats, a dog, birds. Our child is very happy.
What are you doing at the moment?
I'm working on different projects. A sound piece for the Riga bienniale, a piece for the GRM, a score for a documentary... I keep on writing my novel A Forest Petrified, and I draw everyday.
Otherwise, I spend a lot of time taking care of my one year and a half child, we watch the spring, and cooking.
What are you hearing right now?
I'm hearing the birds, the ventilation system of my studio, music on which I'm working through the speakers.
Are you using this containment period to make music?
Definitely. Actually, my routine haven't really changed. Besides the cancelled shows and the lack of travel, my days are quite the same as before. I wasn't going out a lot anyway, we're pretty remote here.
What will the world be like next?
I don't know. Inevitably upset. The weaker ones are going to suffer a lot. A lot of people will be in mourning.
How can we support the music community?
By garanteeing a postponment of the shows, and sometimes when possible, by paying the cancelled shows. By buying records on the web.
Five music to recommend?
Okkyung Lee, Yeo-Neun https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/yeo-neun
Theodore Cale Schafer, Patience https://theodoreschafer.bandcamp.com/
Lisa Lerkenfeldt, The Speed of Images https://lisalerkenfeldt.bandcamp.com/
Eliane Radigue, Songs of Milarepa
Harold Budd, Avalon Sutra
A book?
Don De Lillo, White Noise
What will you do when you get out?
I will walk for four hours.
Links:
http://feliciaatkinson.com
http://www.shelter-press.com/
