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Live at the Old Hairdressers

by Neil Quigley

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Text used in Rituals for the Workplace: ---- Despite the fact that they think the thing is ridiculous, it can over time start to mean something to them, and they then feel differently about their co-workers and their work. ---- ---- De-personalize failures by discussing lessons learned. ---- ---- On the first day (or week) a new employee begins work, be sure they are assigned a buddy to take them out to lunch, decorate their workspace, or hold a special huddle to welcome them first thing in the day. ---- ---- Look for ways to encourage employees to create their own team rituals. What do they seem to enjoy doing together? ---- ---- Every day my team and I order in lunch from a local restaurant (we cycle 5 restaurants per week with one restaurant per day). Since there are five of us, each one of us gets to pick a restaurant one day per week. I'm Monday, T is Tuesday, D is Wednesday, and so on. We always pay our share of the total of the order. We eat in the conference room, and it's nice because it breaks the monotony by making a regular lunch break exciting. ---- ---- I use ritual to help companies enact their values, civic organizations increase their impact and spiritual institution grow their resonance. ---- ---- I work with empathetic leaders who prioritise people and invest in deep, iterative, collaborative processes. ---- ---- Our lives are filled with bland and ineffective rituals – from graduations to product launches to onboarding new employees. ----
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Two works presented at the Old Hairdressers in Glasgow on the 14th April '23.

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The original multichannel work "4 Sketches for 33 Speakers" was written for a 33 speaker system in SARC, Queens University, Belfast in March '23

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Premiere Program Note for 4 Sketches...:

Four sketches, intended to explore several different characteristics of multichannel work, though grew into a marginally conceptually cohesive piece, while maintaining the form of four discursive sketches.


· Section/Sketch 1 – Spatially Fixed Pitch Exposition or, whale chord

Whole number ratio intervals based on a fundamental of 6Hz. Loosely one pitch to a speaker. 36 pitches in all. The only modulation being the amplitude at the entrance and exit of each pitch, and the bit rate of several of the pitches.


· Section/Sketch 2 – Development or, accelerating and deaccelerating rhythmic subdivisions of the pre-established, spatially fixed scale.

Subgroupings of speakers using the same spatially fixed, whole number ratio pitch material as the previous section/sketch. Initially inspired by Handbell Choirs and Indonesian Angklung.


· Section/Sketch 3 – Environmental Modelling

Inspired by the sadness felt after attending a multichannel, surround sound field recording concert. An imagined environment, incapable to being lost to time, free from intervention – inoperative. Equipment used: 0-Coast, Analog Heat MKII, Tesco Bag for Life and Audubon Bird Call.


· Section/Sketch 4 – Rituals for the Workplace

Assembled with audio ripped from Youtube, audio downloaded from freesound.org, text from Instagram, a number of text to speech programs, synthesised sounds and recorded sound. Initially inspired by corporate spiritual consultants, ritual designers, divinity curators and the writings of Arthur J. Deikman. Printer Choir, Wallmart cheer, onboarding new employees.

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released April 17, 2023

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