This piece was composed using recordings made during a two-week long 150km walk along the banks of the river Betwa in central India. The recorded composition was made as a performance of mixing different sounds from field recordings made along the way, in the manner of a disc jockey.

The piece can be heard as a docu-fiction in that the source material are field recordings but they have been arranged to form a brief aural immersion of a walking tour. The piece is built around the sound of crunching footsteps, the most ubiquitous sound during the walk, which also sets its rhythm and tempo. Various recorded sounds of the receding city and the larger riverbank area are slowly introduced and removed, as we imagine ourselves walking towards and eventually past temples, railway tracks, birds, people and so on.

There are fragments of conversations which we had along the way, particularly those of local people talking about their relationship with the river (in Hindi) through their individual lenses. Amongst these are fishermen lamenting their decreasing catch in recent years, an elderly man recounting a mythic origin story of the river and a tourist guide at the ancient Udayagiri caves, which the river flows past. And then there is the sound of the river itself, my constant companion and guide.