News Release

Local environmental arts program announces 2021 international artist-in-residence, Félix Blume.

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News Release Date: June 10, 2021 NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla, June 7, 2020 – The ACA Soundscape Field Station, a partnership between Atlantic Center for the Arts and Canaveral National Seashore, announces Félix Blume as its 2021 artist-in-residence. This residency program invites musicians, composers, and ecologists to find innovative approaches that help preserve a healthy and balanced soundscape for current and future generations. The sounds of our environment tell a story of wildlife biodiversity and the health of people living in that community. “It is important to provide innovative opportunities for sound artists to engage the community with the natural world in a new way that will inspire us to protect this resource,” says Eve Payor, ACA Director of Community Programs. Atlantic Center for the Arts has over 40 years of experience in producing artist-in-residency programs that attract distinguished artists from all over the world.

Félix Blume is a French sound artist who has created installations and sound art throughout the world, including Chile, Mexico, Thailand, Brazil and Haiti. He says, “my work focuses on the listening experience as a shared moment during the recording, as an invitation to the audience to listen. I often work with communities in a participative way. I like to learn from places and people, from the relation between inhabitants and their environment. My microphones and sound recording gear are a pretext to meet people, to listen to them, to receive sounds and capture them. I am interested in the dialogue between humans, animals and geophonic sounds. I believe there is a very deep relation between our way of listening and our way of producing sound, how we become part of a place.

More information:  Artist-in-Residence at Canaveral National Seashore - Atlantic Center for the Arts

This program is supported by Friends of Canaveral, the City of New Smyrna Beach, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. For media inquiries, please contact Eve Payor, ACA Director of Community Programs at 386-423-1753 or Laura Henning, Chief of Interpretation & Visitor Services, Canaveral National Seashore at 321-267-1110 ext. 25.                                                          ####