Scratch 44 Tree pruning

At the bus stop we were overpowered by this sound. A tree was being pruned and the branches were being shredded. I’ve taken two parts of the recording and played them back simultaneously but split across the headphone.

The consistency of the sound is scary. The crushing of the wood and constant hunger of the machine make it for me a metaphor for death.

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