I am a person that picks things up because of the way they look or because the name of the title catches my attention and holds it. Funny enough, I chose my girlfriend through this same process. I did not read her profile but thought she had an honest smile and nice eyes. This title: For More Than One Voice, jumped out and spoke to me too. I listened first before reading the information connected to it. What this reading was meant to evoke within me. Some of the connected words are: resonance, polyphony, dissonance, ambiguity, plurality and embrace. I held onto polyphony and embrace. I will admit to having to look up the meaning of polyphony (the style of simultaneously combining a number of parts, each forming an individual melody and harmonizing with each other). I liked this because it speaks about the individual combing with the other. Could my open curiosity about what I would hear become harmony and even further an embrace of the sounds of life contained within this recording. There are not only voices but shuffling about, phones ringing, coughing, and the turning of pages. Life is happening and many states are converging but neither seeks to overpower the other. It makes me think about the time I have spent this semester speaking with my peers and Dr. Fukushima. I would like to think we say with each other in much this same way. Couching, clicking our keyboards, sighing in agreement, or keeping our silence close so the we might more fully connect. I think some migrant futures seem unsettled because of the current landscape of our world that tells them they are unwanted or a strain on a system. But, if we connected our individual and present state to them we would find that we are also in transition and somewhat unsure. What this recording asks me personally, it to sit down and seek harmony rather than difference. But also a struggle with points of dissonance between myself and others because they can serve as jumping off points for connection, learning and change.