Where to?

I came across this song by Schubert as part of my research, and was struck by the loveliness of it. The piano accompaniment is rather charmingly brook-like. The words speak about the rushing of the little river, and how the protagonist is enchanted to follow it. The way the man interprets the natural environment as a kind of psychic landscape full of personal, subjective meaning - and the piano, acting as the brook, bends to the movement of the singer's line - is very close to the way we often locate ourselves in relation to bodies of water.

There are references too to a mill in the stream. Where I live, just next to the River Lea, is Millfields Park, presumably the site once upon a time, of just such a mill. Indeed the Bow Back Rivers, a series of channels fed by the Lea, were originally dug to power tidal mills for milling grain and gunpowder. The Lea has become slower and slower, no longer required to power the industry that has always been present along it. Even recently, the flow has been further stilled for the sake of the Olympics a little further downstream.

I took the music from the Schubert song and made a little study in deceleration, and interrupted flow.

Wohin?