If you remember the animated sequence in Still Waters you'll recognise James Alexander's style here.
We have a recorded song, lost, salvaged in bits by inadequate retrieval software, crudely reassembled and made to roam the earth. It deals with loss and celebration, the agency of recorded voices and the constant presence of the Then in the Now. Something like that. Hopefully it'll make you laugh too. Either way, we are putting it into the clammy chops of Jim's figure here, and recording it at the Sir John Barrow Cottage on Dragley Beck in Ulverston.
We are at the storyboarding stage, using the words and stresses in the song as cues for movement, and rather than using sketches we using still images. The light in the cottage is ideal, and its a great place to visit. Historian Iain McNicol will be down there, fridays and sundays, and he'll clue you in and show you around the place and the collection of items relating to Sir John Barrow.
Watch for the blog and the facebook stuff and we'll let you know when we are down there next. You can come and watch and hear us give whatever our current explanation is for what we are doing. Many thanks to Dan Elsworth at https://www.greenlanearchaeology.co.uk/ for making the space available to us.,
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