Under the Bay

About Under the Bay

Written and narrated by Lisa Moren with music composed by Dan Deacon, the Chesapeake Bay is described in both enlightenment and medieval terms. The narrator weaves personal observation with scientific knowledge to unpack recent political events and argues for a broad perspective on diversity. The reader imagines the planet as an ensouled body soaked in a wet film that inhales and exhales like a living organism. Meandering stories reminisce on similar patterns in cryonics, meditation, the origins of the Internet, protests, US elections, and algae blooms all describing a world out of balance. This podcast is an audio version of the AR project “Under the Bay”, in collaboration with marine biologist Tsvetan Bachvaroff. Voiceover engineering is by Woody Lissauer. Copy editing and fact-checking are by Aliyah Baruchin. Funding for the AR project is through the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, The Deutsch Foundation, IMET, and UMBC. For more information on the full project see: lisamoren.com/underthebay

Publisher

Lisa Moren

Category

arts · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Sept 2021

Latest episode

30 Sept 2021

Latest episodes

8 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Sept 2021

   Origin Story

   A scientist utters the taboo of how breath itself originated.

2. 

   30 Sept 2021

   Water Moving Around My Fingers

   Internet pioneer, Ted Nelson, describes how he came up with the idea of "hypertext" when he was a boy on his grandfather's boat. With additional narration by Woody Lissauer [Ted Nelson] and Ruskin Nohe-Moren [Theodore Schwenk].

3. 

   30 Sept 2021

   Chalky Faeries

   A swim in the Chesapeake Bay prompts memories of microbes responsible for chalk, cloud behavior, ancient coastlines, and wisdom from Selma Alabama, to art installations, and Steve Kornacki's 'big board’ election map.

4. 

   30 Sept 2021

   Crooked Shelters

   What can architects can learn from microbes about building sustainable structures. This episode reminisces on cryonics while arguing for a 21st c. Victorian version of form and function based on biology.

5. 

   30 Sept 2021

   Lava Lamps in the Sky

   The narrator looks to both flocking behavior and meditation to find the meaning of peace.

6. 

   30 Sept 2021

   Instrumental

   Composer Dan Deacon is inspired by evolving water conditions influencing his music streaming in from the Chesapeake Bay.

7. 

   30 Sept 2021

   Vaccine Blooms with Pink Hats

   Can we imagine a vaccine against anger as the Women's March flows through the DC streets like Celtic interlacing patterns inscribed by 8th-century monks?

8. 

   30 Sept 2021

   Turnover

   Tsetso, a marine biologist, encounters an algae bloom on Baltimore's Pier V. The red mahogony critters are enmeshed with the stone head of Christopher Columbus toppled into the City’s Inner Harbor by protestors the night before.

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