Meat Factory Ear Worms
Meat Factory Ear Worms is a 13 minute long audio recording about a man's time working in a meat factory in Ireland. He begins the tale talking about his first experience there as a six year old boy and progresses onto his time working in the meat factory as a young man.
As the story the man is telling is about his time in the meat factory you expect to hear some of the tell tale sounds of a factory, including the roar of the machinery, and in this case the sharpening of knives. These sounds are used well throughout the recording, especially the knife sharpening, as it is used to fill some of the pauses in dialogue but brings the listener back to the location of the meat factory.
As the man talks about his personal experiences in the meat factory it evokes a range of different emotions. One emotion being an uneasy, nauseous feeling due to the graphic details he goes into about the slaughtering of these animals, for example "I did most of the jobs on the killing line and this is one of the jobs I didn't particularly like, it was a blood bath because the animals still sorta half alive, the brain was dead but the body still had muscle memory and it was still twitching and kicking all over the place." However other emotions include curiosity and happiness as he is reciting past events he has lived through but also creates humor through his pretty terrible singing. The way the music and him singing the lyrics is cut together is also funny as he often finishes the sentence for the song. There are also funny moments such as when he juxtaposes the smell of a back bone, he states "the sweet sweet smell, of a backbone being sawn in half"
There are many different layers to the audio piece, an obvious one being the voice over of the man telling us his story. But behind this there are many different sounds. The sound of machinery plays a big part, especially in the beginning of the recording, maybe to set the scene and give the listener a feel of how loud it would be to work in this environment. However this is contrasted by the use of soft music as he speaks about the "ear worms" he encountered whilst working at the meat factory. There is also an effective use of silence, pauses, throughout the audio recording, giving the listener time to take in what the man has just said but also because the man who is talking could be reminiscing about the past as this is his personal story, something he has lived through. The use of pauses gives the audience time to realise that.
As the story the man is telling is about his time in the meat factory you expect to hear some of the tell tale sounds of a factory, including the roar of the machinery, and in this case the sharpening of knives. These sounds are used well throughout the recording, especially the knife sharpening, as it is used to fill some of the pauses in dialogue but brings the listener back to the location of the meat factory.
As the man talks about his personal experiences in the meat factory it evokes a range of different emotions. One emotion being an uneasy, nauseous feeling due to the graphic details he goes into about the slaughtering of these animals, for example "I did most of the jobs on the killing line and this is one of the jobs I didn't particularly like, it was a blood bath because the animals still sorta half alive, the brain was dead but the body still had muscle memory and it was still twitching and kicking all over the place." However other emotions include curiosity and happiness as he is reciting past events he has lived through but also creates humor through his pretty terrible singing. The way the music and him singing the lyrics is cut together is also funny as he often finishes the sentence for the song. There are also funny moments such as when he juxtaposes the smell of a back bone, he states "the sweet sweet smell, of a backbone being sawn in half"
There are many different layers to the audio piece, an obvious one being the voice over of the man telling us his story. But behind this there are many different sounds. The sound of machinery plays a big part, especially in the beginning of the recording, maybe to set the scene and give the listener a feel of how loud it would be to work in this environment. However this is contrasted by the use of soft music as he speaks about the "ear worms" he encountered whilst working at the meat factory. There is also an effective use of silence, pauses, throughout the audio recording, giving the listener time to take in what the man has just said but also because the man who is talking could be reminiscing about the past as this is his personal story, something he has lived through. The use of pauses gives the audience time to realise that.
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