Hosted by Amy Pearl, the Audio Flux Podcast shares the best of Audio Flux — innovative, short audio works from around the world – in bite-sized, weekly episodes. All fluxworks run three minutes exactly, and explore the power and pleasure of sound + story in wildly different ways. Audio Flux is a laboratory, a sandbox, a mindset —a space where audio makers can experiment and play, and where adventurous listeners can find great audiomakers and (short) epic stories. Audio Flux was co-founded in 2023 by Julie Shapiro and John DeLore, a pair of audiophiles who believe deeply in audio culture and community, and who loooooove to listen. Come. Flux. With. Us!
"Listening with" serves as the thematic framework for this season of The Audio Flux Podcast, emphasizing an intentional, collaborative approach to sound and storytelling. Documentary filmmaker Bianca Giaever shares her short audio piece, Breath, which chronicles the sensory adjustments required when moving to a remote ...
Albrecht Dürer’s 16th-century rhinoceros drawing serves as a historical touchstone for the creative process, demonstrating how an artist can render a creature based solely on descriptive accounts rather than direct observation. This approach highlights the role of imagination and interpretation in visual storytelling. ...
"Letting go" serves as the central theme, explored through the lens of personal transformation and therapeutic psilocybin use. Writer and director Aaron Edwards shares his experiences using mushrooms to navigate OCD, intrusive thoughts, and self-criticism, framing the process as a form of accelerated therapy. Journalin...
The creative process behind the audio work "A Wave Is Coming Toward You" centers on the visceral, non-verbal expression of long-held emotional tension. Mathilde Urfalino explores the sensation of feelings trapped between the chest and throat, seeking to release them through cinematic soundscapes rather than traditional...
Megan Tan, a Buddhist and former modern dancer, explores the intersection of spiritual manifestation and historical narrative through her creative work for Audio Flux. Her daily practice of chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo serves as a foundation for transforming her internal environment to affect the outer world. This phil...
The podcast explores Yowei Shaw's "To Cry or Not to Cry," an audio piece made for Audio Flux Circuit 01, which revolves around the theme of grief and personal experiences following a layoff from NPR. Shaw discusses the initial impulse to suppress tears during the layoff meeting, contrasted with the subsequent months of...
Audio Flux presents "The Sound of Silence," a three-minute creative audio work by Gregory Warner that explores the intersection of hearing loss and mindfulness. The narrative centers on Warner's wife, Sana Krasikov, who began hearing a "ghostly tone" during the early COVID-19 pandemic. Initially interpreted as a medita...
Audio Flux Circuit 01 explores the theme of "letting go" through highly structured, three-minute audio compositions that integrate personal archival recordings and specific visual prompts. Producer Chloe Prasinos presents her piece, A Study in Blue, which documents her grandmother’s progressive descent into dementia an...
Audio Flux serves as a creative "sandbox" or "sonic trampoline" for short-form audio storytelling, designed to encourage experimentation among makers and curiosity among listeners. Operating through biannual "circuits," the initiative utilizes specific creative constraints—including a strict three-minute duration, a ce...
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