Voyage with dublab and Metabolic into new worlds. Each week we present a long-form field recording that will transport you through the power of sound.

As a part of Desert X 2023, Lauren Bon created The Smallest Sea with the Largest Heart. A lace-like steel sculpture of a to-scale blue whale heart was submerged in a pool pumped full of borrowed Salton-Sea water, the sculpture metabolized and created energy and clean water that was deposited back into the atmosphere, fueling the potential for future life and visually transforming itself in the process. The sounds you hear are various stages of steel and water electrolysis, captured by an underwater microphone, as a low electrical current runs through this sculpture, turning it into a cathode while minerals and contaminants accumulate on the surface.

Tune-in, open up, and venture out there as we take excursions into evocative audio fields together.