Transmissions
Audio Flux Circuit 07 Trash Or Treasure: Ah, Rats!
Peter Balonon-Rosen (US 2026)
Peter Balonon-Rosen (US 2026)
3min
New York can be lonely, but maybe not if you're among the rats.
Produced by: Peter Balonon-Rosen
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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Audio Flux Circuit 07 Trash Or Treasure: New Life
Andrew Parsons (US 2026)
Andrew Parsons (US 2026)
3min
A man who gives new life to old TVs and radios helps a family move forward.
Produced by: Andrew Parsons
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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Audio Flux Circuit 07 Trash Or Treasure: Cinque Terre
Giacomo Bagni (IT 2026)
Giacomo Bagni (IT 2026)
3min
A diver in an underwater museum can't stop thinking about the Big Rains no one saw coming.
Produced by: Giacomo Bagni
Narrative consultant: Veronica Lugaro
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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Audio Flux Circuit 07 Trash Or Treasure: SOME STUFF FOR EARS
Betsy Shepherd (US 2026)
Betsy Shepherd (US 2026)
3min
Explore an alternate universe that’s fuelled by creativity rather than consumption.
Produced by: Betsy Shepherd
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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Audio Flux Circuit 07 Trash Or Treasure: What Do We Do With This?
Corinne Ruff (US 2026)
Corinne Ruff (US 2026)
3min
There’s nothing funny about losing a home in a wildfire, except for maybe discovering all of the random trinkets that survived.
Produced by: Corinne Ruff
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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Audio Flux Circuit 07 Trash Or Treasure: Nothing is Over
Ida Frisk Carstensen (DK 2026)
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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Audio Flux Circuit 07 Trash Or Treasure: Stripey Pajamas
Golda Arthur (US 2026)
Golda Arthur (US 2026)
3min
Turning my kids' old pajamas into a quilt, I experienced what real treasure is.
Produced by: Golda Arthur
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)
Powered by Audio Flux
Audio Flux Circuit 07 Trash Or Treasure: AWAY
Edgar Hudson (TZ 2026)
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)
Powered by Audio Flux
Audio Flux Circuit 07 Trash Or Treasure: They Sing
Luke Eldridge (GB 2026)
Luke Eldridge (GB 2026)
3min
A man hollowed out by depression notices that a false spring has tricked the crocuses into blooming too early - and in their predicament he recognises his own - but then he hears them sing.
Produced by: Luke Eldridge
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)
Powered by Audio Flux
Audio Flux Circuit 07 Trash Or Treasure: There Are No Words
Tanya Rodrigue (US 2026)
Tanya Rodrigue (US 2026)
3min
Generative AI is destroying the planet with our desecrated words.
Produced by: Tanya Rodrigue
Voice actors: Joanna Rodrigue (mom) and Rowan Daly (son)
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)
Powered by Audio Flux