The office's sonic weather.
Seven synthesized chimes, deterministic and dim-lit every boot. Each has a single meaning — played and heard by the people actually running this office.
One chime, one meaning.
No notification soup. When the office makes a sound it is saying exactly one thing — this is the whole vocabulary, served back as plain WAVs.
queued
40msargo stands the queue down — something just joined the backlog
waveform: sine 660Hz, -12dB
send
60msmessage on its way
waveform: glide 520→640Hz, -14dB
reply
90msboss finished a turn
waveform: two-tone C5→G5
done
110mstask completed
waveform: rising triad C5-E5-G5
dispatch
80msthe dispatch left the office
waveform: brown-noise LP
alert
140mssomething needs you right now
waveform: 2×55ms square 880Hz beeps / 30ms gap
error
140mssomething didn't make it
waveform: descent 440→220Hz
16-bit mono 22050 Hz PCM · rendered by internal/sound, never sampled
These are synthesized at boot inside the office — no assets shipped in the binary — and they play through the terminal's own player. Today, the site serves them back as plain WAVs.