We invited our artists to share snapshots from their life in lockdown, offering a small insight into their sounds and surroundings in this collection of Postcards from Home.
Dominic Murcott
Imagining an escape – 7.30am 11th April 2020
I live on a dirty street in New Cross Gate. Litter, fly tipping, human and animal waste of every kind. However, I am lucky enough to have a garden that is surrounded by other gardens. Despite being 100 metres from a busy main road, the song of the great tit and the neighbour’s water feature dominate the soundscape and I can pretend I have escaped to the country.
Dominic Murcott features on 1:3:5:7 Improvised Duos, The Harmonic Canon
Tom Richards
Here is a picture of bean seedlings growing behind the curtain in my studio, and a video of freshly captured snails enjoying some lettuce – we are catching and moving the snails to give the beans a chance to survive in the garden!
Tom Richards features on Pink Nothing
Colin Alexander (Tre Voci)
'Breakers, breezes, bells and birds' - for percussion and nature
Colin Alexander features on Auro
Kate Carr
Back To The Bounce
Sonic postcard from lockdown.
Yes that is Yoga with Adriene at the end :-)
Kate Carr features on Fieldwave vol. 1
Sarah Dacey (Juice Vocal Ensemble)
I left my flat in Woolwich three weeks ago for my parents house in Surrey. I discovered this little paradise valley last week, it's a dell only about 15 minutes walk away. I go there every day now as it's often full of birds singing away. Upon leaving earlier this week, I heard a rustling in the bushes to my left and a huge deer with antlers ran past me, only about three feet away. It was so magical.
Sarah Dacey features on Songspin, Laid Bare: Love Songs, Only Girl in the World
Héloïse Werner (The Hermes Experiment)
It’s a very short and simple piece I wrote for voice and cello, inspired by my (many) plants, and performed in my living room.
The Hermes Experiment won Nonclassical’s Battle of the Bands 2014