Disquiet Junto Project 0492: Kintsugi Rework

The Assignment: Employ the Japanese technique of mending broken ceramics as a metaphor for remixing.

Step 1: This week’s project explores the ceramic method called “kintsugi.” If the term is unfamiliar, read up on it a bit. Here’s a description from an article in the Washington Post: “That means ‘golden joinery’ in Japanese, and it refers to the art of fixing broken ceramics with a lacquer resin made to look like solid gold. Chances are, a vessel fixed by kintsugi will look more gorgeous, and more precious, than before it was fractured.”

Step 2: Consider how kintsugi can be employed, through metaphor, as a means to rework/remix an existing piece of music.

Step 3: Take an existing track, perhaps one of your own, and by some means “break” it.

Step 4: Take the “broken” piece of music from step 3 and make it whole by employing a musical adoption of kintsugi.

Source for above quote, from art critic Blake Gopnik: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/02/AR2009030202723.html

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More on this 492nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Kintsugi Rework (The Assignment: Employ the Japanese technique of mending broken ceramics as a metaphor for remixing) — at: https://disquiet.com/0492/

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The image associated with this project is by Kate, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

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Disquiet Junto Project 0492: Kintsugi Rework

Disquiet Junto Project 0479: Truck Radio Rain

The Assignment: Locate three sound sources and make something with them.

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Anxiety FM (disquiet0479)

More on this 492nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Kintsugi Rework (The Assignment: Employ the Japanese technique of mending broken ceramics as a metaphor for remixing) — at: https://disquiet.com/0492/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0492-kintsugi-rework/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is by Kate, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/jEFjbJ

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Kintsugi Rework - disquiet0492

sulking faith

halF kintsugI [disquiet0492]

Hey, I decided to rework a all-percussion track I finished two days ago and posted for the weekly haiku challenge [here](https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/the-serpent-pulse-3-naviarhaiku387)
I added a layer of an orchestral track and broke the percussion master to create holes where the orchestral score pops up. Then , on some places I played with filters to make the orchestral layer "leak" through the percussive parts. It was fun.

Kintsugi on a broken serpent (disquiet0492)

release date: 04-06- 2021
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Kintsugi Interior (disquiet0492)

This is the polka (disquiet0492)

For this challenge:
Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure
Imagine that you are about to consult a therapist. You are sitting in the waiting room of his/her/their office.
Create a piece of music that you imagine hearing in this situation. 

I was recording ebow guitar today so did this jam, guitar, upright bass, ebow guitar, synths.
it was pure "free association", just played whatever came to my mind on top of the previous tracks.
Friday November 12th 2021

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little home video recording this:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CWOQ47JqJfc/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Let's Bring It Back To The Waiting Room (disquiet0515)

Disquiet Junto 0552

driving through cultivated landscape, a granulated country loop is punctuated by commentary courtesy of ag radio

Nebraska Radio and Me

Just a humble tribute to Die Hard.
Written&recorded by Erin Lovett, Mixed by Patrick Brick

Purchase on Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2hytiDx

Lyrics:
His mother called him Hans, Gruber from his father's side 
And he was German-born but meant for so much more 
A cowboy from New York took a red-eye to LA 
And he was filled with hope until he learned that Holly changed her name 
(Genero) 

Well everything will change this Christmas 
Yes, everything will change this Christmas 
Whether you are falling in love or falling from a tower 
Everything will change this Christmas 

Ho Ho Ho, now I have a machine gun (2x) 

Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs 
There's a hundred million dollars in the vault 
And John Mclane's running through shattered glass 
Shattered like the hopes of young Hans Gruber 
He was no common thief 
And on that day he fell from Nakatomi he would forever more live on in infamy 

Well everything will change this Christmas 
Yes, everything will change this Christmas 
Whether you are falling in love or falling from a tower 
Everything will change this Christmas 

Yippee-ki-yay mother fucker, yippie-ki-yay (2x) 
(And the censored for TV version) 
Yippie-ki-yay Mr. Falcon, yippie-ki-yay (2x)

Everything Will Change This Christmas: The Ballad of Hans Gruber

On a dark, lonely road.... the sound between stations as the radio fades out....

Xorthropfnor After Dark (disquiet0407)

The interstitial stations on late night radio.

Recorded off of an Eton emergency radio on the FM band in the bathtub with Apogee Meta Recorder with no external mic on an iPhone 8.

Gritboy - KPFU - disquiet0407

A vague memory from a trip years ago to the Ontario Science Centre inspired this auditory illusion. With quotes from The Origin of Species (Darwin) and from Report N° 3211000RAE00-A: Hair Volume Measurement(Bolero) - Evaluation of 4 Products.

More on this 410th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Op Audio / The Assignment: What does the sonic equivalent of Op Art sound like? — at: https://disquiet.com/0410/

Thanks to Nate Trier for having suggested a “Shepard tone Junto,” which led to this week’s project.

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Stress (disquiet0410)

Sound effects from "Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House".  Music by Paul Reiners.

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More on this 421st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Marquee Ghosts / The Assignment: What sounds haunt a discarded movie theater in the middle of the night? — at:

https://disquiet.com/0421/

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Marquee Ghosts - disquiet0421

A random path traced (upstream) through Bern on the river Aare. The melody is generated from each segment in order, with pitch based on the compass angle, and length based on the (arbitrary) length of the segment that was traced.

Composed, performed, and recorded by The Land:
Judith Klassen - Viola
Simon Neufeld - Computer and guitar loop

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More on this 445th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0445: Aare Tribute — The Assignment: Read maps of a river as a graphic score — at:
https://disquiet.com/0445/

This is the second of three projects in collaboration with Musikfestival Bern 2020 which will take place in Bern, Switzerland, from September 2 to 6. More on the festival at:
https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern/

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Musik vom Aare Fluß by The Land (disquiet0445)

Old cassette recordings of guitar, glockenspiel, and viola sliced and diced by the awesome Shortcircuit plugin. Instruments performed by Simon Neufeld and Judith Klassen. Computer programmed by Simon.

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More on this 478th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Collage of Collages (The Assignment: Make a collage that will become part of a larger collage.) – at:
https://disquiet.com/0478/

The project is a collaboration with the radio show Kopfkino, initiated by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka. More on Kopfkino at:
https://cba.fro.at/series/kopfkino 

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Tape Collage by The Land [disquiet0478]

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

This is the polka (disquiet0492)

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