Lulu Miller
speaker
3,713 appearances
28 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 18 Sep
Lulu Miller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Whatever it was, it was so powerful, it was rattling the houseboats of the Bay.
Which we performed beneath the void of the night sky at this gorgeous venue called Little Island in New York City.
It sits right alongside the Hudson River, which itself empties out into the void of the ocean.
Three stories, one by Latif, one by senior producer Matt Kilty, one by me, plus a little extra special bonus by a guest at the very end.
Yes.
Let me introduce you to a guy who knew exactly what it was.
Oh, yeah, didgeridoo.
That is Dr. Andrew Bass, a scientist at Cornell who for decades has been studying the entity that makes this sound.
An entity which is... a bottom-dwelling fish.
They are certainly a contender.
Picture a frog, now melted, add a set of deranged teeth.
Luckily for this little guy, who is often called the California singing fish, it's not his looks, but his song that attracts a mate.
The way that he sings his song is by using an organ that's a little like a drum inside his chest.
It's an inflated swim bladder against which he strikes not a mallet, but a set of very powerful muscles that he vibrates faster and faster and faster and faster and faster until it releases this oomph.
Sometimes hundreds of them will gather and sing all at once in unison for over two hours.
All of their melodies and harmonics swirling together until the sound jumps dimensions.
It becomes audible above water.
And if their siren song works as well on the female fish as it does on Dr. Bass, she will follow him to the source of the sound, which is a little hideout beneath a rock that he has dug out just for her in the shallow end of the sea.
And there he will keep singing, trying to impress her, singing out his different yearnings and melodies and rhythms, impressing her with his stamina,
Now, of course, singing out into a void like this can come with a risk.
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