Circuit 07: Trash or Treasure
(2026)

For Circuit 07 we commissioned four works and ran an open call for public submissions. In the end we received 97 fluxworks (the most yet!) from 15 different countries and 21 different states across the US.

Our creative partner for Circuit 07: Trash or Treasure was Kenyan-based visual artist and sculptor, Cyrus Kabiru. Our organizational partner for Circuit 07 was Radio Workshop. Our Circuit 07 theme (“Trash or Treasure”) and prompts were designed with Cyrus, and directly inspired by his art practice.

Photos of the found objects featured in submissions

Video by Melissa Mbugua, Roadman Shot It, John DeLore, Lusen Mendel

For this circuit, we asked each producer to make a fluxwork that:

  • Responds to the theme “Trash or Treasure”

  • Runs exactly three minutes

  • Tells a climate story that was meaningful to them

  • Incorporates a discarded object that they found

  • Includes at least one sound recorded in Cyrus’s studio

Circuit 07 debuted June 14, 2026, at the Tribeca Audio Program in New York, NY.

Cyrus Kabiru wearing the unfinished “My Story” while working on it in his studio in Nairobi, Kenya.

Naomi Grewan from Radio Workshop premiering the finished “My Story” art piece at Tribeca

After listening to the Circuit 07 fluxworks he inspired, Cyrus created a new art piece called “My Story.” In keeping with his motto of giving trash a second chance, Cyrus constructed “My Story” from discarded materials that he found, including wood, beads, and two metal tower-shaped pieces over the eyes. The towers are a nod to air travel and how easy it has become to connect with each other even across continents.

“I used beads, which represent my culture. Whoever participated has their own culture, so beads represent those cultures that they brought, and the creativity they brought to the project.”

— Cyrus Kabiru

CIRCUIT 07 COMMISSIONED WORKS:

  • Hungry Ghost by Alex Sujong Laughlin / USA

  • Sadaqah Jariyah by Munira Kaoneka / Tanzania

  • The Future Climate Board Podcast (Q3, 2089)
    by Daniel Ondieki / Kenya

  • Two [Shores] by Remoy Philip / USA

CIRCUIT 07 CIRCUIT SELECTS:

  • AWAY by Edgar Hudson / Tanzania

  • Cool Shoes by Jonathan Miller / USA

  • Nothing is Over by Ida Frisk Carstensen / Denmark

  • Stripey Pajamas by Golda Arthur / USA

CIRCUIT 07 FINALISTS: Ah, Rats! by Peter Balonon-Rosen / USA, Cinque Terre by Giacomo Bagni / Italy, Hole in the Flag by Dan Morris / USA, New Life by Andrew Parsons / USA, SOME STUFF FOR EARS by Betsy Shepherd / USA, There Are No Words by Tanya Rodrigue / USA, They Sing by Luke Eldridge / UK, What do we do with this? by Corinne Ruff / USA

WARM THANKS TO: Cyrus Kabiru, Radio Workshop, Nail Verma & Natalie Moore and the Audiophile Festival, Lucia Scazzocchio and the XMTR Festival, AIR Media, Davy Gardner, Allyson Morgan and the rest of the Tribeca Audio crew.

Circuit 07 Fluxworks

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AWAY / Edgar Hudson

A discarded football narrates its journey into “away,” revealing that nothing we throw away truly disappears.

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