Audio Flux is a home for innovative audio and bold storytelling. It was co-founded in 2023 by a pair of audiophiles who believe deeply in audio culture and community, and the transformative power of sound + story. And who loooove to listen.
How it works: Audio Flux regularly invites people far and wide to create short audio works in response to a set of prompts. For each “circuit” we engage with a creative partner who inspires these prompts, and share the resulting “fluxworks” via live events, online, across social channels, and on (soon) The Audio Flux Podcast.
Meet your Flux Capacitors:
To connect with Audio Flux about partnerships and sponsorship, email info@audioflux.org.
If you’d like to support our work, you can make a tax-deductible donation here. [Thank you!]
Julie Shapiro co-founded Audio Flux in 2023 with John DeLore. Currently she produces podcasts with Canadaland. including A Field Guide to Gay Animals and The Copernic Affair. She was Vice President of Editorial, PRX, and Executive Producer of PRX's Radiotopia, where she co-founded and executive produced the Ear Hustle podcast, Over the Road, and Radiotopia Presents, among others. From 2014–2015, Julie helped found and manage the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Creative Audio Unit. In 2000, she co-founded the Third Coast International Audio Festival, where as artistic director she shaped the Festival's creative trajectory and nurtured a robust international listening culture. Shapiro has taught radio to university students, presented at conferences and festivals the world over, and produced stories for the airwaves and podcasts in the US and beyond.
John DeLore is an audio enthusiast, renowned radio/podcast sound designer, producer, and editor, with a career that spans from his time at WNYC/New York Public Radio (Studio360, On The Media, Death Sex & Money and many more) to the start-up days of Gimlet (Mystery Show, StartUp, and ReplyAll), to Stitcher (where he launched The Paris Review Podcast, Chris Gethard's Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People, The Atlas Obscura Podcast, and produced the award winning docu-series Unfinished: Short Creek). These days John runs his independent production shop Starlight Diner (where he's worked on Constellation Prize: Nightwalking, the award-winning series Weight for It, and the 4th season of the now independent Paris Review), and along with Julie Shapiro is the co-founder of Audio Flux, a new home for independent audio. John has presented at various audio conferences (Third Coast, Hearsay, AES, IMI Fest, OnAir, Resonate, Tribeca Audio) and in his spare time records music in his garage-turned-studio.
Amy Pearl joined the Audio Flux team in 2024, as host of the upcoming Audio Flux podcast. Amy is a photographer and audio producer with a soft spot for very short pieces. She produced a weekly 2-minute feature for WNYC called Good Things and helped create 10 Things That Scare Me, one of the first short-form podcasts. She is currently working at New York Times Audio. Her hobbies include bottle-feeding newborn kittens and walking around.