Audio Flux Circuit 07 Trash Or Treasure: Nothing is Over
Ida Frisk Carstensen (DK 2026)
3min
When something ends, it's the beginning of something new.
Transcript:
A life is over.
A farewell has been said.
It is now that you become a letter nature begins to read.
As you lie there on the forest floor, you begin to become one.
Your body becomes an offer that smells sweet and lures life toward it.
Insects crawl and creep all over your skin, flying in to claim a share of your body. Creating new life inside you.
New life that will take over where your soul once had its home.
You swell up.
Gases take over, and your skin becomes like a map, marbled in green, purple and black. And then it lets go.
Slides off.
And lets fluids out.
Out into nature, killing everything around you.
Creating explosions of bacteria and fungi.
Nature works at full pressure.
And all at once, you sink into yourself, like a breath that never returns.
Around you floats a sweet smell.
The smell of putrefaction.
A stench to some.
A fragrance to others.
You have become a place.
Not a human being.
But a place that lures life toward it.
A city no one has planned.
But everyone finds their way to.
The large animals tear at you. At what remains of you.
Fly larvae work their way through your soft tissue in rolling white carpets.
Like a living breath through what was once you.
As the years pass, you disappear more and more.
Everything that was once soft and living is gone.
Your last remains become strength in others.
You continue in bodies you have never met.
For there, where you once lay, new life grows.
You are no longer a corpse.
You are a garden that blooms vast and green.
A green ghost that says sorry.
And makes room for a new biological environment.
Nothing is over.
You have simply become something else.
Produced by: Ida Frisk Carstensen
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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