As I write these liner notes in the summer of 2020—a summer of action, counter-action, protest and defiance, but also of learning, healing and education—putting out this work seems inconsequential. Nevertheless, I am very proud of “Immovable Transition” and feel it deserves a brief explanation to mark its entrance into the world.

The “Immovable Transition” EP is my first singular; that is a 20-minute listening piece, divided into three singulars, designed to be listened to while walking. The three tracks (“singulars”), Inside Trains, People in Stations, and Welcome Immovable Transition, are re-worked from field recordings and soundscapes that I made in 2011, at the very start of my everyday sound journey. During the UK lockdowns in 2020, I listened back through many of my recordings and felt that there was more I needed to express with not only the sounds themselves but also the themes of solitude, travel, physical space and place that had inspired the original works.

I’m extremely happy with the result and believe it is among my best work, mainly because I feel it expresses, in sound, that which I cannot with words. There is a clarity that emanates from having more confidence in my ideas, tools and materials.

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