Episode 07: Missing a Script on Altering Shores

In Episode 7, hosts Grace Boroughs and Evie Sorrell introduce the many exciting Philadelphia-based data stories. Then, Bethany Wiggin, Katie Collier, and Piotr Wojcik speak with Nathaniel Popkin about their participation in the data storytelling and climate sensing art work, a hybrid virtual reality and live performance called The Altering Shores, conceived and directed by Roderick Coover in late November 2019.

CREDITS:

Image: Sarah Milinski

Nathaniel Popkin is a Philadelphia-based historian and author of The Year of the Return (Open Books, 2019), Everything Is Borrowed (New Door Books, 2018), and Lion and Leopard (The Head and The Hand Press, 2013). Popkin is also co-editor (with Stephanie Feldman) of an anthology, Who Will Speak for America? (Temple University Press, 2018). He is also founder of Hidden City Philadelphia. Tweet him @NathanielPopkin.

This episode was produced by Jasmine Erdener, and written by Bethany Wiggin.

MUSIC

Ghostland Observatory - Silver City

Lead Belly - Midnight Special

DeVotchKa - Done With Those Days

Crooked Still - Wading Deep Waters

Blind Willie Johnson - Dark was the night...

Erik Hokkanen - Hill Country Waltz

Lidya Mendoza - Palida Luna

Chavela Vargas - Paloma Negra

DeVotchKa - La Llorona

The Bells Of Joy - I'm Gonna Press On

Dead Man's Bones - Buried in water

Clifton Chenier - 'Zydeco sant pas sale'

Lightnin' Hopkins - Houston Bound

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