Voyage with dublab into new worlds. Each week we present field recordings that will transport you through the power of sound. Metabolic Sonics specializes in exploring the captivating sound waves and vibrations of the web of life. The Metabolic Studio is an interdisciplinary art and research hub based in Los Angeles, California directed by artist Lauren Bon. The studio addresses critical social and environmental issues through art interventions and innovative projects aimed at reparation.

Each week we will bring field recordings of Metabolic Studio’s current projects, Bending the River, Meandros. Moving Mountains, and archival material from past ventures including the improvised music of Metabolic Sonics. Bending the River is an adaptive reuse of the LA River infrastructure that reimagines the relationship between Los Angeles and the river that brought it into existence.

Let’s take a walk with Metabolic Sonics! Listen to footsteps (and hoofsteps) as Metabolic Sonics explore the watershed from which Los Angeles gets its water. From the wet splooshes and dry crackling surfaces in the varied terrain of the Owens Valley Dry Lake, to the High Sierra mountains at 11,000 feet where the granite rock is so dense its fragments cover the trail in tiny Lithophones–you hear distinct musical pitches the rocks! Finally we join the mule team as 100 hundred mules walk the Los Angeles aqueduct in Payahuunadu.