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TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO
From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is
Virginia Water Radio for the week of December 21, 2015.
This week, we look back on 2015 with a medley of mystery
sounds. Have a listen for about 60 seconds, and see if you can
identify these sounds from the past year of Virginia Water Radio.
SOUNDS - 61 sec
If you guessed all these, you get an aquatic A+! The sounds were the names of three Virginia salamanders; Virginia Tech students sampling for freshwater snails; bat-echolocation sounds; a Spotted Sandpiper; three of the names of tropical storms in 2015; swarming adult midges; the Conway River in Madison County, 20 years after that county’s historic 1995 flood; part of “Lesson from an Egret,” by Alyson Quinn; and an excerpt from “All Hands Radio,” by the U.S. Navy, which turned 240 in 2015. Thanks to the Lang Elliott for permission to use the Spotted Sandpiper sound, to Alyson Quinn for her egret essay, and to several Blacksburg friends for providing their voices.
We close this 2015 revisit with a 60-sec sample of music heard on Virginia Water Radio this year. Thanks to No Strings Attached, Bob Michel, and The Steel Wheels for these pieces. And to 2015: so long—soon—and thanks for the water!
MUSIC - 61 sec - “Minor Meander,” by No Strings Attached; “The Oysterman’s Ball,” by Bob Michel; “Riverside,” by The Steel Wheels; and “Ode to a Glowworm,” by No Strings Attached.
SOUNDS - 61 sec
If you guessed all these, you get an aquatic A+! The sounds were the names of three Virginia salamanders; Virginia Tech students sampling for freshwater snails; bat-echolocation sounds; a Spotted Sandpiper; three of the names of tropical storms in 2015; swarming adult midges; the Conway River in Madison County, 20 years after that county’s historic 1995 flood; part of “Lesson from an Egret,” by Alyson Quinn; and an excerpt from “All Hands Radio,” by the U.S. Navy, which turned 240 in 2015. Thanks to the Lang Elliott for permission to use the Spotted Sandpiper sound, to Alyson Quinn for her egret essay, and to several Blacksburg friends for providing their voices.
We close this 2015 revisit with a 60-sec sample of music heard on Virginia Water Radio this year. Thanks to No Strings Attached, Bob Michel, and The Steel Wheels for these pieces. And to 2015: so long—soon—and thanks for the water!
MUSIC - 61 sec - “Minor Meander,” by No Strings Attached; “The Oysterman’s Ball,” by Bob Michel; “Riverside,” by The Steel Wheels; and “Ode to a Glowworm,” by No Strings Attached.
For more Virginia water sounds, music, and information, visit
us online at virginiawaterradio.org,
or call us at (540) 231-5463. Virginia
Water Radio is produced by the Virginia Water Resources Research Center, part
of Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment. Thanks to Stewart Scales for his banjo
version of Cripple Creek to open and close the show. In Blacksburg, I’m Alan Raflo, thanking you for listening, and wishing you
health, wisdom, and good water.
AUDIO NOTES AND
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The bat-echolocation sounds were provided by Alexander
Silvis, a postdoctoral research associate with the Virginia Cooperative Fish
and Wildlife Research Unit and the Virginia
Tech Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, used with permission.
The sound of the Spotted Sandpiper was taken from the Stokes Field Guide to Bird
Songs-Eastern Region CD set, by Lang Elliott with Donald and Lillian Stokes
(Time Warner Audio Books, copyright 1997), used with permission of Lang
Elliott, whose work is available online at http://www.langelliott.com/ and the “Music of Nature” Web site, http://www.musicofnature.org/.
The excerpt of “Lesson from an Egret” is courtesy of Alyson
Quinn, from her blog “Winterpast” (9/21/07), available online at http://www.winterispast.blogspot.com/,
used with permission. Ms. Quinn made the recording after a visit to Algonkian Regional Park, located in
Sterling, Va. (Loudoun County), part of the Northern Virginia Regional Park
Authority.
The U.S. Navy’s “All Hands Radio” archive of podcasts is
available online at http://www.navy.mil/navydata/radioList.asp.
The excerpt heard here was from 11/03/15—“70 Year Journey Home Search remains
for fallen Airmen.”
“Minor Meander, from the 1999 album “In the Vinyl Tradition
Volume II,” and “Ode to a Gloworm,” from the 1999 album “In the Vinyl Tradition
Volume I,” are copyright by No Strings Attached and Enessay Music, used with
permission. More information on No Strings Attached is available online
at http://enessay.com/.
“The Oystermen’s Ball,” from the 2004 album of the same
name, is copyright by Bob Michel, used with permission. More information
on Mr. Michel's music is available online at http://www.bobmichel.com/.
“Riverside,” by The Steel Wheels,” is from the 2011 album
“Live at Goose Creek,” recorded October 10, 2014, at Franklin Park Performing
Arts Center, Purcellville, Va., and produced by Goose Creek Productions; used
with permission of The Steel Wheels. More
information about The Steel Wheels is available online at http://www.thesteelwheels.com/.
LINKS TO PREVIOUS EPISODES
Previous episodes of Virginia Water Radio are listed by category at the Index link above (http://www.virginiawaterradio.org/p/index.html).
Please see the
following episodes (all are hyperlinked to the respective episode) to listen to
the sounds and music heard in this episode, to see additional acknowledgments
to people involved, to find more information and sources used, and to see suggestions
on correlations to by Virginia’s K-12 Standards of Learning (SOLs; Virginia’s SOLs
are available from the Virginia Department of Education, online at http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/).
Sounds from 2015
Virginia salamander names – Episode
257, 3-16-15
Virginia Tech student research or freshwater snails – Episode
262, 4-20-15
Bats and water – Episode
263, 4-27-15
Spotted Sandpiper and Baltimore Oriole along the New River –
Episode
264, 5-4-15
Atlantic tropical storm season – Episode
266, 5-18-15
The aquatic insect family of non-biting midges
(Chironomidae) – Episode
268, 6-1-15
The 1995 flood on the Conway River and other waterways in
Madison County, Va. – Episode
272, 6-29-15
Great Egret and Great Blue Heron, featuring “Lesson from an
Egret” – Episode
277, 8-10-15
The U.S. Navy, for Veterans Day – Episode
289, 11-9-15
Music from 2015
“Minor
Meander,” by No Strings Attached, for stream channel energy and patterns – Episode 248, 1-12-15
“The
Oysterman’s Ball,” by Bob Michel, for oysters, nitrogen, and the Chesapeake Bay
– Episode 279, 8-24-15
“Riverside,”
by The Steel Wheels, for an introduction to Loudoun County’s Goose Creek – Episode 286, 10-19-15
“Ode to a Glowworm,”
by No Strings Attached, for bioluminescence – Episode 278, 8-17-15
Previous "Year of Sounds/Music" Episodes
2014 – Episode
246, 12-29-14
2013 – Episode
193, 12-23-13
2012 – Episode 141, 12-17-12
2012 – Episode 141, 12-17-12
PHOTOS
Spotted Sandpiper and Baltimore Oriole, photographed along
the New River on April 29, 2015, by Robert Abraham of Christiansburg, Va.; used
with permission. Mr. Abraham’s photos provided
the idea for Episode
264, 5-4-15, A Bird Day on the New River.
