The Disquiet Junto this week asks participants to "Please record a track in which you try to unring a bell."
Today is Australia Day and the date has become increasingly divisive as the colony celebrates the landing of the First Fleet and a growing number of people call it Invasion Day.
Our country is the only British colony without a treaty negotiated with the First Nations and in my lifetime those original inhabitants have been recognised in law with the extinguishment of "terra nullius" and acknowledgment of the ongoing connection to Country for the oldest continuous human culture.
So the idea of unringing a bell seems deeply symbolic and the best I can do is attempt to reverse time as a way of softening the blows.
I've drawn on Junto 0315 recorded for Australia Day in 2018 with a track I titled 'Circumnavigate' in reference to the date, as well as 0256's "music in place" which provides Leeton's church bells.
Since I needed to reverse the bells, I put this track together in Final Cut Pro -- although I think it would be good if Ableton Live were able to reverse video as well as audio in a future update.