Félicia Atkinson’s sound collages — ever-expanding webs of electronics, field recordings, spoken word, and piano — seem to haunt the spaces they occupy, draping themselves in every corner like an otherworldly presence. With SANS VISAGE, the French composer’s new score for Georges Franju’s 1960 film Les yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face), she leans into her music’s ghostliness, using delicate layers of airy electronics to conjure the film’s looming dread and pairing contrasting textures to meditate on the invisible and visible bars that trap us.
The Belgian cultural center Viernulvier approached Atkinson to create the score as part of its Videodroom series; the recorded version pares the full 90-minute score down to…
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The lapping water that burnishes the edges of this collaboration between multidisciplinary artists