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Echoes of Earth, India’s greenest circular music festival, is making a quantifiable impact across Bangalore. Recognised as the Circular Festival of the Year 2025 for its innovative waste management, circular design, and zero-waste strategies with complete resource traceability, the festival extends beyond music and art by involving citizens and communities actively in sustainability efforts.
As Echoes of Earth — India’s greenest circular music festival — prepares for its 2025 edition, taking place in Bengaluru on December 13 and 14, it is doubling down on a philosophy that has already won it the title of Circular Festival of the Year 2025. For Echoes of Earth, sustainability isn’t negotiable; it’s the beating heart of the festival. Last year alone, the team repurposed 1,695 kilograms of crowd-sourced e-waste, saved nearly 12,000 kilograms of new material from entering the supply chain, built four stages from bamboo and scrap metal, crafted over a hundred hand-made signages from leftover wood, and commissioned 35 upcycled installations that turned environmental anxiety into tactile, hopeful beauty.
This October, that ethos stepped beyond the festival grounds through a city-wide E-Waste Collection and Awareness Campaign — a month-long invitation for Bangaloreans to literally place their discarded devices into the future. Spread across the city’s central neighbourhoods, the initiative turned responsible waste disposal into a civic ritual. Every cracked phone, dead speaker, or old laptop became raw material for artists who will reshape them into Echoes of Earth’s towering installations. It was sustainability in practice — community-led, crowd-sourced, and tangible.
As a prelude to the main event in Bengaluru, the Mumbai showcase on 15 November deepened this idea of community custodianship. Sessions by Kartik Chandramouli, a multimedia editor and journalist based in Mumbai, and writer-editor Sejal Mehta (Lonely Planet India, National Geographic Traveller India, and Nature inFocus) tuned the audience into the city’s urban wildlife — the birds, insects, and creatures that shape its hidden soundscape; Sahir Doshi’s coastal storytelling explored fragile marine worlds; and Shigeto’s live ensemble ended the night with music echoed like a pulse shared between bodies and biospheres.
The main event, themed ‘The Sixth Sense’, builds on these conversations and explores nature’s intuitive intelligence — how species communicate, adapt, and coexist in harmony. With a global line-up spanning German artist Steffen Linck (Monolink), Tamer Malki and Rami Abousabe (Bedouin), French accordionist Grayssoker, Madame Gandhi, and Chennai-based fusion group Jatayu, the 8th edition of Echoes of Earth will invite audiences to discover nature’s hidden intelligence, how it shapes ecosystems, inspires innovation, and offers new ways of understanding the natural world.
Echoes of Earth, India’s greenest music festival, is set to return for its 8th edition on December 13 and 14, 2025, at Embassy International Riding School, Bangalore. Learn more here.
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