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Under the Bay

8 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -

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

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Episodes

Origin Story

September 30, 2021 16:53 - 10 minutes - 13.7 MB

A scientist utters the taboo of how breath itself originated.

Water Moving Around My Fingers

September 30, 2021 16:48 - 7 minutes - 10.3 MB

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

Chalky Faeries

September 30, 2021 16:45 - 15 minutes - 18.2 MB

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.

Crooked Shelters

September 30, 2021 16:35 - 10 minutes - 13.6 MB

This episode reminisces on cryonics and what architects can learn from microbes about building sustainable structures.

Lava Lamps in the Sky

September 30, 2021 16:29 - 9 minutes - 11.6 MB

In this episode, the narrator looks to both flocking behavior and meditation to find the meaning of peace.

Instrumental

September 30, 2021 16:27 - 8 minutes - 12.9 MB

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

Vaccine Blooms with Pink Hats

September 30, 2021 16:26 - 6 minutes - 8.79 MB

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

Turnover

September 30, 2021 16:16 - 9 minutes - 12.2 MB

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.