Sonic Sugar

As part of their work for Absent Voices, Inverclyde-based musicians Al Carlisle and Ryan King are creating a soundtrack to Greenock's sugar sheds.
This shows Al, who along with Ryan, is in a band called Alphabetical Order Orchestra using recording equipment to try and capture the sounds of this historic building, which once thrummed to the beat of the hard physical labour of bringing raw sugar in from boats landing at James Watt Dock.
Al explains: "We hope to achieve this by recording the ambiance of the building on site and to try to capture the feeling of the building.
"At present we aim to split the soundtrack into three sections, roughly named, past, present and future.
"We hope to involve the local community by recording interviews and experience and incorporating this over the music. We also hope to make contact with some more high profile Scottish speakers to call in their assistance in recording the spoken word.
"The music will mainly be recorded in a studio, however, where possible, the more instruments we can record in the sheds the better.
"The soundtrack will focus on the varying emotions of the sugar sheds history and building; ranging from the thriving workplace and community, to the decline, its present state and what it could become again.
"The vision for the soundtrack is hopefully a large atmospheric landscape, as vast in size and feeling as the sheds themselves."

Sounds quite magical...