Music-wise one of the more experimental and avant garde projects I've been involved in. Which I love! The radio documentary BLOOD, SWEAT AND OIL ("Blod, Svette og Olje" – the title was actually my idea) is the story about the people working at the car scrap yard Brødrene London, located in the eastern outskirts of Oslo. A huge part of the sound of this mini-score consists of sounds I sampled at inside the factory itself, and the workers themselves form the "workers' choir" shouting the programme's main title. Brødrene London is a family business through generations, with Jewish origins. The score's strict "musical palette" - consisting mostly of machine sounds and atonal-ish melodic themes - deals with both the good days of this family business, and its much darker backstory.
Client: NRK Radiodokumentaren
Director: Guri Skeie
Director: Guri Skeie
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Music by Eirik Myhr
ALL INSTRUMENTS AND PROGRAMMING: Eirik Myhr
WORKER'S CHOIR: The Brødrene London staff
WORKER'S CHOIR: The Brødrene London staff
Recorded January–February 2012
Worker choir and factory sounds recorded on location at Brødrene London's factory
Mixed by Eirik Myhr at Eiriks kontor, Darres gate 20
Worker choir and factory sounds recorded on location at Brødrene London's factory
Mixed by Eirik Myhr at Eiriks kontor, Darres gate 20
