Audio Flux Circuit 07 Trash Or Treasure: AWAY
Edgar Hudson (TZ 2026)
3min
A discarded football narrates its journey into “away,” revealing that nothing we throw away truly disappears.
Transcript:
Kid commentator [translation]: And here we are: final minutes of the match! Dust rises and hearts are pounding fast. Musa on the left. Passes to Juma. Juma shoots. Goaaaaal!
[Distant vuvuzela sounds]
Kid commentator [translation]: What a strike from Juma! This is “Chandimu” man!
[Approaching rain]
Kid commentator [translation]: What is happening?
[Kids yelling]
Kid commentator [translation]: Looks like rain is about to make a ruckus.
Kid 1 [translation]: Hey lets go… it’s raining.
Narrator: They always leave like this. Not because they want to, but because something bigger always calls them home. I used to think this was the end of the game, that when the fill emptied, I had been forgotten. But then, I started to listen. There is a place everything comes to. Not thrown, just sent. They call it AWAY. A bottle that once held a celebration. A shoe that ran its last race. A bag that carried someone's hunger home. Here, nothing disappears, it gathers. A quiet family of forgotten things. Some still remember the hands that held them. Others have been here so long, they've stopped waiting. Not everything that is thrown away is ready to be forgotten. At first I was afraid, not of being broken, but of not being needed. But then, I remembered: They always come back. The water will go, the ground will dry, and the game will begin again. Because to them, I am not trash. I am the game. And there is no such place as AWAY!
[Kids yelling]
Produced by: Edgar Hudson (TZ 2026)
Voice actor: Nasri Risasi
Audio Flux is a home for short-form, innovative audio. They invite people far and wide to create short “fluxworks” in response to a theme and set of prompts. For each “circuit” they work with a creative partner who inspires these prompts.
For Circuit 07 they’ve linked arms with an organizational partner — the Capetown-based audio storytelling program, Radio Workshop, who helped connect them with the creative partner for Circuit 07, the Kenyan-based visual artist and sculptor, Cyrus Kabiru.
Through his artwork, Cyrus transforms trash and other discarded items into stunning objects – spectacles, radios, bicycles and more – that grapple with issues of consumerism, waste, and our ailing environment. Inspired by his perspective and the rich narratives that his sculptures suggest, we invite, welcome and encourage stories about climate change for Circuit 07.
FOR Circuit 07 each fluxwork must:
Respond to the theme “Trash or Treasure”
Run exactly three minutes
Tell a climate story that is meaningful to you
Incorporate a discarded object you’ve found
(or will find)Include at least one sound recorded in Cyrus’s
studio (downloadable from this folder)
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