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 

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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)

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'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

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