Stereo sound recording 9’ 04” 2022. This piece applies artist and composer Annea Lockwood’s sound map techniques to an exploration of the agency of a short stretch of tidal Thames: from its tidal limit at Teddington Lock to Richmond lock. It is based on hydrophonic and surface recordings of incoming and outgoing neap and spring tides, weirs, currents and pools. It seeks to bring out current’s melodies and counter-melodies, rhythms and recurring patterns, layered and collaged with riverside sounds and with women’s voices – responding to the questions that Annea herself posed to those who lived or worked on the rivers she has mapped. It explores time and tides’ effect on the river, its banks and the beings who inhabit them; its ebbs and flows governed by relationships of sun, moon and earth – an exploration more through time than space. The intention is not to document the river, but, as Annea has done, to draw the listener in to the energy of the river, to immerse them in the river as its sounds enter their bodies, a step at least towards interconnectedness, caring, and action.