Freddie Murphy
Performer, Sound Artist
Freddie Murphy
Performer, Sound Artist
Freddie Murphy is a sound artist and curator based in Torino, Italy.
His sonic research has shifted from cathartic performances to express the Catholic sense of guilt to an intimate investigation on feelings of loss and acceptance connected with grief, using an approach to composition that is bound to visual imagery and concepts linked to rituality.
His musical practice involves experimenting on the duality of natural/synthetic, using acoustic recordings processed into synthetic sounds, as well as mimicking natural sounds using analogue tools.
As a founding member of the seminal experimental outfit Father Murphy he released a series of concept albums on labels such as Joyful Noise, The Flenser, Avant! and performed extensively across the world. Appearances include Venice Biennale and Santarcangelo Festival (IT), Dark Mofo Festival (Australia), Le Guess Who!? Festival (NL).
Movies with his original soundtrack have premiered at Locarno Film Festival (CH), Karlovy Vary (CZ), MOMA Fortnight Festival (US).
Together with Chiara Lee Murphy is the present curator of the music public program for the Museum of Asian Art (MAO), Torino, Italy, and guest curator for the MADRE Museum of Contemporary Art, Naples (IT).
