Gigi Masin + Felicia Atkinson - Iðnó

Extreme Chill Festival Kynna: 

Gigi Masin + Felicia Atkinson í Iðnó Laugardaginn 23 September.
Upphitun sjá um: Gunnar Jónsson Collider + Masaya Ozaki 
Ekki missa af þessum einstaka viðburði. 

Gigi Masin
The innovative composer, musician and producer Gigi Masin has been experimenting with sound and making music since the late 1970s. His 1987 album, Wind, gained a cult following and his track ‘Clouds’ has been sampled by everyone from Björk to the Black Eyed Peas.

A 2014 compilation album of his work marked the start of wider recognition for Gigi, and he then went on to form the trio Gaussian Curve with British producer Jonny Nash and cult Dutch DJ Marco Sterk. The music came naturally and the group’s debut album, Clouds, was released in 2015. Back in his native Italy, Gigi released two joint albums – Hoshi and Tsuki –  with Luciano Ermondi and Paolo Mazzacani, and he appeared as part of the group Lifted.

This all prompted a series of singles, appearances at festivals and being asked to support Oneohtrix Point Never and Devendra Banhart on tour. With more international tour dates, collaborations and an album of new material coming soon, and a continuous refusal to be pigeonholed in any one genre, Gigi Masin continues to be one of the most quietly innovative and singular artists on the scene..

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 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.

Atkinson 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).