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THE OFFICE SUITES:

SUITE I - DIVERSITY IN THE WORKPLACE:
i) Five Year Plan (High Hopes)
ii) Fluctuations in the Middle-Eastern Market
iii) Infrastructure Initiatives (Short-circuited by Unfortunate Office Acoustics)
iv) Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreements
v) Government Interventions (And Other Severe Market Distortions)

INTERLUDE - Imminent Foreign Takeover (What Went Wrong?)

SUITE II - THE SHAPE OF CHAIRS:
i) Rumblings From Head Office
ii) Gossip at the Water Cooler
iii) Keeping Up-to-Date On Twitter
iv) The Trickle-Down Theory
v) After-work Drinks

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The Office Suites project began with a five-wheeled office chair used as a percussion instrument to record a lengthy improvisation: striking, squeezing, squeaking, dropping, banging, rolling, flicking and scratching, to produce a diverse and varied vocabulary of sounds. This material was then edited and mixed into five chair-chair duets, which were then sent to the next studio. Here, A Demon Sheen improvised with each duet using the stringed instruments listed below, and sometimes twice on the same track. As well as the response to audio, advantage was also taken of being able to observe the passing waveforms on the monitor screen.

Now, a digital vocoder program was brought into play. The chairs files were used to vocode (used as a verb) the stringed instruments, and this material, sped up 2.5 times, was added to the five tracks to make up the suite titled "Diversity in the Workplace" (tracks 1-5).

The second suite, "The Shape of Chairs" (tracks 7-11), again uses the chairs files to vocode, but this time the subjects are five harmonium tracks. These are mixed onto various field recordings, and titled accordingly. Any comparisons with new-age flutes playing over quietly babbling streams should be immediately expunged!

The track "Imminent Foreign Takeover (What Went Wrong?)" is a transition piece between the two suites. Eight tracks of chairs are panned across the audio-field, and are gradually overtaken by the high-pitched staccato interjections of a track made from a field recording that has undergone severe upward pitch-shifting in two different ways.

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