This Earth Day w @codepink.bsky.social, we're hosting a special screening of Earth's Greatest Enemy, tracing the environmentally disastrous footprint of the US military. Join us for conversation with local orgs and food from street vendors supported by Inclusive Action for the City
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Dublab tomorrow at 8:33am! This broadcast mixes archival recordings, the Interdependence Choir singing into the silo from locations across the Los Angeles area and across the country, connecting in the echo of the silo and the massive Aeolian Harp strung along its sides. Listen in!
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Metabolic's Sonic Division and cheLA, artist/activists in Buenos Aires, play together and eat together, sharing the Argentine tradition of ñoqui on the 29th of each month. We combined amplified sounds of prep in the kitchen, with strings, gongs, baschets, and voice. Listen on dublab!
Tomorrow on dublab, Marcus Aguilar, the exec director of Anawakalmekak, an indigenous-led charter school, gives a land acknowledgement at an event celebrating the end of phase one of Bending the River, redirecting a portion of the LA River to LA State Historic Park. Listen up!
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This Friday, from 9am-12pm, Metabolic Studio is hosting Optimists’ Day: Another City Is Possible. Our opening procession celebrates the flow of the LA River, and throughout the morning we are hosting learning sessions on community work and new configurations of care. RSVP now: bit.ly/3NjOFN1
And listen to a field recording of Butler's daughter, artist Corazon del Sol, and archivist Carolyne Aycaguer preparing for Metabolic Studio’s Special Projects in Archiving presentation of Eugenia P Butler's work on Out There, tomorrow morning at 833am on dublab!
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Come see Eugenia P. Butler at the Barn, once the home and office of architect A. Quincy Jones. Butler's incredible work uses images, alchemy and talismans as she calls out systems of domination, and explores her own, and our, collective unconscious
W/Th now through April 29, 2026!
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In this week’s episode of Out There, we listen to a physical sound map of Payahuunadü made by Metabolic Studio Optics Division. The listener patches audio cables into different locations on a map of the Owens Lake dry bed, to order to hear field recordings collected there.
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Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, we're in Owens Valley where an 80 foot silo, formerly owned by the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, has been transformed into a massive Aeolian Harp. This field recording captures the sound of the harp, accompanied by owls who live in the silo. Listen in!
Tonight at 4:30 PST/5:30PM MT Lauren Bon presents "The Cyborg Watershed of the Intermountain West" for the Grand Challenges Lecture series, tracing the path of her large-scale artworks along this hybrid natural/engineered water network central to our limited water supply.
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Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, we're playing Lauren Bon's keynote address for the Oberlander Prize Forum IV: Soak it Up, sounds from the gigantic Aeolian Harp strung on a silo beside Owens Lake, and an excerpt from an operatic work-in-progress, Bending the River, a Rite. Listen in!
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Have you ever watched a sand mandala come to life? Today through Tuesday, from 10am to 6pm you can watch this meditative practice, sharing compassion and intention.
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Starting tomorrow at 10am (through Tues), the Gaden Sharte Buddhist monks will begin creating a sand mandala to bless our space, and the threshold of Bending the River's new delta for the Los Angeles River on LA State Historic Park. Join us for mandala creation, dinner and talks!
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In honor of Agnes Denes: The Future is Fragile, the MAK Center is hosting ECHOLOGY: PERSPECTIVES IN ECO-LOGIC Thurs at 6pm, a panel with Lauren Bon, Aroussiak Gabrielian and Debra Scacco, on the evolving relationships between humans, nature, technology, and infrastructure. Come by! bit.ly/3Ysg0yw
Last week, we shared a Metabolic Sonics jam session from REIMAGINE, our monthly print-making studio. Tomorrow on dublab, vibe out on the second half! And join us for the next REIMAGINE on Jan 5 where we'll be making prints and puppets, and starting our Tending and Mending practice
Last month, Metabolic Sonics jammed along during REIMAGINE, our monthly print-making studio. We open up our space and our archive of donated screens to make art together, and be in community. Check it out, tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab!
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Interested in bioremediation? Check out our Meandros Toolkit, giving you step-by-step instructions on what to do when you find out you have lead or petrochemical contamination on your site. We show you how and when to use natural methods to reduce contaminants bit.ly/3Y4M3EF
Tonight's Oberlander Prize Forum keynote speech by Lauren Bon is sold out but tix are still available for our Saturday workshop the Art of Disturbance! Find out how natural disturbances like landslides, wildfires, and floods can become opportunities and address systematic inequity.
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Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, we're sharing answers to the question "What does Moving Mountains mean to you?" Moving Mountains is an ecological initiative diverting landslide soils once considered waste into remarkable regenerative practices transforming the urban landscape.
Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, we're sharing answers to the question "What does Moving Mountains mean to you?" Moving Mountains is an ecological initiative diverting landslide soils once considered waste into remarkable regenerative practices transforming the urban landscape.
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Here's a clip from Fotofocus2025, with Lauren Bon talking Metabolic Studio's Optics Division and the way Owens Lake is connected to the work:
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In October, Lauren Bon gave a talk at FotoFocus 2025. The event explored photography’s part global industrialization, the impacts on social and political systems, and the economies of mining, industrialization, land use, and environmental degradation. Watch it on our Substack!
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REIMAGINE is Metabolic Studio's monthly printmaking session, where we open-source the creative process to reshape narratives, reclaim space, and redistribute creativity. Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, we're sharing our Sonic Division jam session from the 11/3 event. Take a listen!
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Thanks to @kcrw.com and Brandon R Reynolds for coming to Metabolic Studio, and sharing about the living systems emerging from Topanga Canyon landslide soil, oak seedlings taking root inside a warehouse and LA River water returning to the land instead of flowing out to the sea.
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Tomorrow at 8:33am on Out There, we're sharing a Metabolic Studio Sonic Division Retreat held in a giant steel PPG silos in Owens Valley. One of the silos is also an instrument akin to an Aeolian harp with 80-foot-long "strings" on the exterior and the silos as resonant chambers bit.ly/47Cj7cz
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!!
We're in LA so PST but dublab is also on demand! Last week's episode isn't up yet but it should be up soon. Here's our archive: bit.ly/4nLTLxu
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
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
