I started writing Daily Rituals at a time when I was regularly thinking about the proportion of my everyday life made up of relatively mundane, recurrent physical or social behaviours that often feel entirely automatic. As well as my own routine, the piece draws upon the routines and rituals of friends and colleagues; the impact that certain behavioural reflexes can have on conversational sincerity; and comparisons between the repetition involved in instrumental / vocal praxis and the ordinary happenings that occur at work, on transport or when we procrastinate.