VOICE-MOTION-EUPHONY, 2001

Muslim call to prayer and passing truck:

Diesel locomotive and temple percussion

Voice-Motion-Euphony is a sequence of recordings made during a trip I took through India in 1998. The material has been edited but remains essentially an indexical work about the voices of people, street sounds and travel experienced as an acoustic continuum.

It is a personal sound diary, a sequence of sonic events that have become memories, which unfold like journeying itself. Ribbons of audiotape, lines of rail track and cries of song and prayer, merge together in my recollections to assume a special sort of equivalence with movement through space and unknown places.

As a phonic journal it is composed with a 'rough' contingent feel for a disconnected succession of events, the kind that make up a traveller's universe where each unexpected encounter becomes a co-ordinate that eventually maps a way to the anticipated point of arrival.

Martin Sims, June 2001