Postcards Home, by Martha Skye Murphy

Postcards Home

by Martha Skye Murphy

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	1.	PRELUDE - Forgetting 01:58
	2.	ACT I - Your Mouth Is My Crypt 02:57
	3.	ACT I - Somnambulant:Arousal 11:37
	4.	ACT I - Pareidolia 09:53
	5.	ACT II - Call 02:58
	6.	ACT II - Response 03:01
	7.	ACT II - Burden 02:58
	8.	ACT II - No Such Thing 02:50
	9.	INTERVAL 07:24
	10.	ACT III - What She Is Watching Coming In To The Shore 03:12
	11.	ACT III - Choir of None 05:33
	12.	ACT III - Aria 02:46
	13.	ACT III - Forgetting (Reprise) 03:45
	14.	FINALE - I See You 04:03
	15.	FINALE - Underwater 03:21
	16.	FINALE - From The Wings 08:35

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Martha Skye Murphy’s opera 'Postcards Home' is a vocal dance with machines using the voice to usurp the in-built settings of analogue synths. Doors creak, dogs bark, and a guttural choir is heard as a binary signal. Quiet is loud. Improvised and preserved in the state they were left, the recordings were made on a simple 8-track device. The files were subsequently lost and corrupted but eventually retrieved by digging into the memory of the machine. What was left were process-driven snapshots, postcards to databases, hard drives, and past lives.

Somewhere between an intrusive field recording and a ritualistic experiment, with the enforced site-specificity of isolation and in the absence of external life, Murphy became the field, documenting her internal movements at a time of acute stillness.

'Postcards Home' was debuted at The Southbank Centre where once lost recordings were performed within an installation of flight recorders, titled Earwitness (2022) by the artist's sister, Ceidra Moon Murphy. The songs were sung to objects with traces of voices trapped inside them.

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released February 21, 2022

Written, Recorded, Mixed & Produced by Martha Skye Murphy
Mastered by Andrew Weathers
Artwork by Ceidra Moon Murphy
Cassette Design by Devin Shaffer

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