Metabolic Studio
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Metabolic Studio explores self-sustaining and self-diversifying systems of exchange that feed emergent properties that regenerate the life web.
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I heard Diego explain this when I visited last month and it was ASTONISHING and deeply informative for anyone working in urban ecologies. Tune in!!
Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, biologist Diego Zapata, a member of the Metabolic Studio team, explains how native plants remediate land contaminated with lead at "The Moon" aka Un-development 1. We'll also play you an improvised set from Metabolic Studio's Sonic Division. Tune in! bit.ly/47p8Mka
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I heard Diego explain this when I visited last month and it was ASTONISHING and deeply informative for anyone working in urban ecologies. Tune in!!
This summer, we gave tours of our Moving Mountains project at Un-development 1, a former tow yard beside the LA River. We pulled up the tarmac and replaced it with floodplain soil. Soon dormant seeds sprouted and their roots pulled up the residual contaminants, remediating the land. Learn more here!
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This summer, we gave tours of our Moving Mountains project at Un-development 1, a former tow yard beside the LA River. We pulled up the tarmac and replaced it with floodplain soil. Soon dormant seeds sprouted and their roots pulled up the residual contaminants, remediating the land. Learn more here!
Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, biologist Diego Zapata, a member of the Metabolic Studio team, explains how native plants remediate land contaminated with lead at "The Moon" aka Un-development 1. We'll also play you an improvised set from Metabolic Studio's Sonic Division. Tune in! bit.ly/47p8Mka
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, biologist Diego Zapata, a member of the Metabolic Studio team, explains how native plants remediate land contaminated with lead at "The Moon" aka Un-development 1. We'll also play you an improvised set from Metabolic Studio's Sonic Division. Tune in! bit.ly/47p8Mka
Tomorrow at 8:33am, Douglas Lee of Metabolic's Sonic Division and Dr. Martí Ruiz, from the sound sculpture workshop at the University of Barcelona, performed at the 2025 Baschet Conference in Kyoto. Check it out! bit.ly/4ofLcMN
We also demonstrate sound sculptures over on YouTube: bit.ly/3LAHONN
We also demonstrate sound sculptures over on YouTube: bit.ly/3LAHONN
Enchanting the Floodplain
The Sound Sculptures of Douglas Lee
In collaboration with Lauren Bon,
Dr. Martí Ruiz and the Metabolic Studio Sonic Division
Metabolic Studio works within a triangle of transmission connecting…
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October 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Tomorrow at 8:33am, Douglas Lee of Metabolic's Sonic Division and Dr. Martí Ruiz, from the sound sculpture workshop at the University of Barcelona, performed at the 2025 Baschet Conference in Kyoto. Check it out! bit.ly/4ofLcMN
We also demonstrate sound sculptures over on YouTube: bit.ly/3LAHONN
We also demonstrate sound sculptures over on YouTube: bit.ly/3LAHONN
Ñoquisonics, a monthly sound art happening, is tomorrow 10/29, unfolding simultaneously in LA at Metabolic Studio and in Buenos Aires at cheLA. We connect the LA River, Rio de la Plata and the tributaries in between. Tomorrow's sonic offering will livestream from 2-5pm: bit.ly/47vATgc. Join us!
October 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Ñoquisonics, a monthly sound art happening, is tomorrow 10/29, unfolding simultaneously in LA at Metabolic Studio and in Buenos Aires at cheLA. We connect the LA River, Rio de la Plata and the tributaries in between. Tomorrow's sonic offering will livestream from 2-5pm: bit.ly/47vATgc. Join us!
This weekend, October 24-26 in St Louis, Lauren Bon is presenting new work at the inaugural CIRCUS OF LIFE convening from Counterpublic, which brings together leading artists, thinkers, and advocates to imagine new ways of being in the world together.
Come check it out! bit.ly/3J9Al7L
Come check it out! bit.ly/3J9Al7L
October 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This weekend, October 24-26 in St Louis, Lauren Bon is presenting new work at the inaugural CIRCUS OF LIFE convening from Counterpublic, which brings together leading artists, thinkers, and advocates to imagine new ways of being in the world together.
Come check it out! bit.ly/3J9Al7L
Come check it out! bit.ly/3J9Al7L
Tomorrow morning at 8:33am on Out There, we're broadcasting a soundscape from Metabolic Studio's Sonic Division. In this session from 2022, we accompanied our yearly ritual corn planting with metallophones, gongs, and wooden percussion.
Listen in: bit.ly/47gyaHq
Listen in: bit.ly/47gyaHq
October 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Tomorrow morning at 8:33am on Out There, we're broadcasting a soundscape from Metabolic Studio's Sonic Division. In this session from 2022, we accompanied our yearly ritual corn planting with metallophones, gongs, and wooden percussion.
Listen in: bit.ly/47gyaHq
Listen in: bit.ly/47gyaHq
"Art & Science Collide" showcases Lauren Bon and other artists featured in the Getty's 2024-25 art event Pacific Standard Time, showing how artists and scientists working together can find new ways to address our world's urgent challenges.
Today at 8/10 p.m. on PBS, PBS.org, and the PBS App!
Today at 8/10 p.m. on PBS, PBS.org, and the PBS App!
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October 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"Art & Science Collide" showcases Lauren Bon and other artists featured in the Getty's 2024-25 art event Pacific Standard Time, showing how artists and scientists working together can find new ways to address our world's urgent challenges.
Today at 8/10 p.m. on PBS, PBS.org, and the PBS App!
Today at 8/10 p.m. on PBS, PBS.org, and the PBS App!
Metropolis Magazine's feature "Designers Rethinking Our Relationship to Water" highlights Lauren Bon's "Bending the River" along with work from other artists making invisible water systems visible again—and challenging us to live differently with them bit.ly/3IRzzw5
Designers Rethinking Our Relationship to Water - Metropolis
Across sculpture, planning, and public space, designers are making invisible water systems visible again—challenging us to live differently with them.
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October 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Metropolis Magazine's feature "Designers Rethinking Our Relationship to Water" highlights Lauren Bon's "Bending the River" along with work from other artists making invisible water systems visible again—and challenging us to live differently with them bit.ly/3IRzzw5
Tomorrow morning at 8:33am on Out There, a poetry reading by member of Project 1521, from January 7th, 2022 at “The Moon”, a former tow yard being un-developed and regenerated using phytoremediation. The poems are interspersed with improvised music by Metabolic Sonics. Listen here! bit.ly/4ogQ43G
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October 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Tomorrow morning at 8:33am on Out There, a poetry reading by member of Project 1521, from January 7th, 2022 at “The Moon”, a former tow yard being un-developed and regenerated using phytoremediation. The poems are interspersed with improvised music by Metabolic Sonics. Listen here! bit.ly/4ogQ43G
Soil Time tomorrow at 10am! Come visit the new Cesar Chavez Community Garden and learn about soil, health and natural remediation, and make your own soil and seed sculpture to take home! Hosted by Metabolic Studio, culivatLA and Prospering Backyards. Sign up here: bit.ly/46OIIPe
October 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Soil Time tomorrow at 10am! Come visit the new Cesar Chavez Community Garden and learn about soil, health and natural remediation, and make your own soil and seed sculpture to take home! Hosted by Metabolic Studio, culivatLA and Prospering Backyards. Sign up here: bit.ly/46OIIPe
The Sky High Farm Biennial 2025 in Germantown, NY closes tomorrow! The closing celebration is a day of art events and performances, including a panel at 12:30pm featuring Lauren Bon in conversation with Dan Colen, Joshua Harrison & Luke Fischbeck. Check it out! bit.ly/4h57Qoj
October 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The Sky High Farm Biennial 2025 in Germantown, NY closes tomorrow! The closing celebration is a day of art events and performances, including a panel at 12:30pm featuring Lauren Bon in conversation with Dan Colen, Joshua Harrison & Luke Fischbeck. Check it out! bit.ly/4h57Qoj
Metabolic Studio's Sonics Division holds jam sessions in unique locations, using a variety of instruments and sound sculptures to tap into sound waves and vibrations. Tomorrow's Out There on dublab is a “party mix” from the Metabolic Sonics’ archives. Check it out! bit.ly/48lFlAr
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Metabolic Studio's Sonics Division holds jam sessions in unique locations, using a variety of instruments and sound sculptures to tap into sound waves and vibrations. Tomorrow's Out There on dublab is a “party mix” from the Metabolic Sonics’ archives. Check it out! bit.ly/48lFlAr
Metabolic Sonics explores the captivating sound waves and vibrations of the web of life/ Thursdays at 8:33am on dublab, we present field recordings that transport you through the power of sound. This week's show is music is from the archive, a jam from March 18, 2019.
Check it out! bit.ly/4mIqmE4
Check it out! bit.ly/4mIqmE4
October 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Metabolic Sonics explores the captivating sound waves and vibrations of the web of life/ Thursdays at 8:33am on dublab, we present field recordings that transport you through the power of sound. This week's show is music is from the archive, a jam from March 18, 2019.
Check it out! bit.ly/4mIqmE4
Check it out! bit.ly/4mIqmE4
Each week, Dublab and Metabolic Studio transport you through the power of sound. Tomorrow at 8:33am check out Metabolic Sonic Division's jam from March 18, 2019. Tune-in, open up, and venture out there as we take excursions into evocative audio fields together. Only on Dublab!
bit.ly/46AhfiH
bit.ly/46AhfiH
September 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Each week, Dublab and Metabolic Studio transport you through the power of sound. Tomorrow at 8:33am check out Metabolic Sonic Division's jam from March 18, 2019. Tune-in, open up, and venture out there as we take excursions into evocative audio fields together. Only on Dublab!
bit.ly/46AhfiH
bit.ly/46AhfiH
Come visit us today from 3-7pm at the the LA River Farmers Market. Our mobile art studio is ready for community members to contribute to our textile project honoring the 20th Anniversary of Lauren Bon's "Not A Cornfield." Supplies provided, just bring yourselves!
foodaccessla.org/la-river
foodaccessla.org/la-river
September 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Come visit us today from 3-7pm at the the LA River Farmers Market. Our mobile art studio is ready for community members to contribute to our textile project honoring the 20th Anniversary of Lauren Bon's "Not A Cornfield." Supplies provided, just bring yourselves!
foodaccessla.org/la-river
foodaccessla.org/la-river
Tomorrow on Out There, 8:33am on Dublab, we're playing an excerpt from 3000 Minutes, Lauren Bon’s durational work commemorating the 20th Anniversary of 9/11—and the 3000 people killed. Composed in collaboration with Douglas Lee and performed with Brooklyn Rail on September 12, 2021 bit.ly/4m8rGj6
September 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Tomorrow on Out There, 8:33am on Dublab, we're playing an excerpt from 3000 Minutes, Lauren Bon’s durational work commemorating the 20th Anniversary of 9/11—and the 3000 people killed. Composed in collaboration with Douglas Lee and performed with Brooklyn Rail on September 12, 2021 bit.ly/4m8rGj6
Our Moving Mountains tours extended through September! Friday mornings, walk through a living floodplain on the bank of the LA River and see a former tow yard transformed by bio-remediation and inoculation with Topanga Canyon landslide soil. Discover what's possible. Sign up here: bit.ly/45Pfpvl
September 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Our Moving Mountains tours extended through September! Friday mornings, walk through a living floodplain on the bank of the LA River and see a former tow yard transformed by bio-remediation and inoculation with Topanga Canyon landslide soil. Discover what's possible. Sign up here: bit.ly/45Pfpvl
Tomorrow morning on Out There, we feature our Bending the River project. Check out field recordings of removing metal shoring, placing vitrified clay pipe and rebar, and pouring concrete as we close up the launch pit in the LA River channel that diverts water to Metabolic Studio! bit.ly/45N69b6
September 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Tomorrow morning on Out There, we feature our Bending the River project. Check out field recordings of removing metal shoring, placing vitrified clay pipe and rebar, and pouring concrete as we close up the launch pit in the LA River channel that diverts water to Metabolic Studio! bit.ly/45N69b6
Tomorrow morning on Out There, we're playing an archival recording from the Anabolic Orchestra, a social practice exercise where we fabricating 90 gongs and chimes ranging from 8"–30” in diameter, inspired by the ancient gong and chime orchestras of Southeast Asia. Listen in! bit.ly/3HwGyKf
August 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Tomorrow morning on Out There, we're playing an archival recording from the Anabolic Orchestra, a social practice exercise where we fabricating 90 gongs and chimes ranging from 8"–30” in diameter, inspired by the ancient gong and chime orchestras of Southeast Asia. Listen in! bit.ly/3HwGyKf
Come visit us today from 3-7pm at the the LA River Farmers Market. Our mobile art studio is ready for community members to contribute to our textile project honoring the 20th Anniversary of Lauren Bon's "Not A Cornfield." Supplies provided, just bring yourselves!
foodaccessla.org/la-river
foodaccessla.org/la-river
August 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Come visit us today from 3-7pm at the the LA River Farmers Market. Our mobile art studio is ready for community members to contribute to our textile project honoring the 20th Anniversary of Lauren Bon's "Not A Cornfield." Supplies provided, just bring yourselves!
foodaccessla.org/la-river
foodaccessla.org/la-river
Tomorrow on dublab, we continue last week last week's conversation, part of our Moving Mountains tour. Learn about our Meandros soil columns, Topanga Canyon landslide soil and using native plants to remove petrochemicals from a former tow yard on the edge of the LA River. Listen in! bit.ly/4oM73Mo
August 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Tomorrow on dublab, we continue last week last week's conversation, part of our Moving Mountains tour. Learn about our Meandros soil columns, Topanga Canyon landslide soil and using native plants to remove petrochemicals from a former tow yard on the edge of the LA River. Listen in! bit.ly/4oM73Mo
The LA River Farmers Market is a community hub we're proud to support, hosting local growers and artisanal producers at LA State Historic Park. We're creating a collaborative textile project honoring the 20th Anniversary of Lauren Bon's "Not A Cornfield." Today 3-7pm!
foodaccessla.org/la-river
foodaccessla.org/la-river
August 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The LA River Farmers Market is a community hub we're proud to support, hosting local growers and artisanal producers at LA State Historic Park. We're creating a collaborative textile project honoring the 20th Anniversary of Lauren Bon's "Not A Cornfield." Today 3-7pm!
foodaccessla.org/la-river
foodaccessla.org/la-river
Check out our project Moving Mountains tomorrow on at 8:33am on dublab, where we'll play clips from the tour. Instead of seeing healthy topsoil from Topanga Canyon landslides as refuse, Moving Mountains treats it as a resource, inoculating distressed soil to support ecological repair. bit.ly/47u8ZCV
August 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Check out our project Moving Mountains tomorrow on at 8:33am on dublab, where we'll play clips from the tour. Instead of seeing healthy topsoil from Topanga Canyon landslides as refuse, Moving Mountains treats it as a resource, inoculating distressed soil to support ecological repair. bit.ly/47u8ZCV
Lauren Bon (@bendingtheriver.bsky.social) joins Futurology talk about the Cyborg Watershed and the complexity of the infrastructural water systems that making life possible in the American West. Listen here apple.co/4fCUmiP and post any questions below!
August 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Lauren Bon (@bendingtheriver.bsky.social) joins Futurology talk about the Cyborg Watershed and the complexity of the infrastructural water systems that making life possible in the American West. Listen here apple.co/4fCUmiP and post any questions below!