SCP #67: Shiver

Written & performed 16th March 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. Composed by Erica Bramham as part of the Song-Chain Project. The Song-Chain Project is a year-long creative mission that commences January 9 2017 and will run until January 9 2018. Each day for 365 days a new piece of music will be written, recorded and posted online, and the process documented. For more information visit ericabramham.com/songchain-project

Yesterday I had to go into one of those huge city office towers to drop off some documents.  It was the kind with a concierge in the lobby to direct you to the correct floor, and a stream of suits, motorcycle couriers and cycling lycra coming and going through the glass lifts.  I spent a large chunk of my twenties quite unhappy in office buildings like this, and whenever I end up back inside one I feel very uncomfortable as the negative memories come flooding back in.

The word shiver from yesterday was my starting point for this piece, and I let myself explore some of the uncomfortable feelings that still dwell inside me from that time in my life.  I also tried to capture something a sense of the droning of office life.