Finding ourselves at the bottom of the former Zuiderzee, we are in an imaginary sea of time. Where once the ebb and flow of the sea marked the flow of time, now there is a beach on a small peninsula. For this place, and this specific moment in time (June 29, 2024), Almere-based composer Miranda Driessen composed a 6-hour performance for 8 Aeolian harps and solo voice. Within this span of time—the average duration of the tidal cycle at sea—sung and wind-generated sounds blend together in slowly shifting hues. Apart from the tide, the wind also plays a major role in shaping currents and water levels at sea, and thus determines safe routes for ships. These were marked by beacons. Whenever the tide changed, proverbially speaking, the beacons had to be repositioned. In Driessen’s performance, the Aeolian harps function as beacons that—quite literally—delineate the playing field within which the singer moves. During the 6 hours of the composition, she periodically shifts the beacons, making new sounds audible and setting a new course. The necessity to turn the tide at this moment in history is all too clear. The idea that humanity still has an ocean of time is increasingly revealed to be an illusion. When the Tide Turns is an attempt to make the resolve and perseverance required for this shift truly palpable. "In omnem terram exivit sonus eorum et in finis terrae verbum eorum" Due to organizational circumstances the eventual performance needed to be shortened to 'only' 3 hours...