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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 26, 2016.
This week, we look back on 2016 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 - ~62 sec
If you guessed all these, you’re a 2016 water wizard! The sounds were words for snow in French, Italian, and Spanish; a spectrometer used to measure greenhouse gases in soil; Passage Creek in Shenandoah County’s Fort Valley; the Ruddy Turnstone, a kind of shorebird; the Barking Treefrog; the names of several kinds of Chesapeake Bay submerged aquatic plants; dissolved gases bubbling up from the bottom of a pond; stormwater during an unusually heavy September rain; and waves at York River State Park.
Thanks to Blacksburg friends for the snow words; to Lang Elliott for the Ruddy Turnstone sound; to Mr. Elliott and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries for the Barking Treefrog sound; and to students at Achievable Dream High School in Newport News for the Chesapeake Bay plant names.
I hope that during this past year, your ears were treated to sounds of clean, adequate water; healthy aquatic life; and safe water fun.
We close out 2016 with a 60-sec sample of music heard on Virginia Water Radio this year, courtesy of The Steel Wheels, No Strings Attached, and Torrin Hallett.
MUSIC - ~ 58 sec – Excerpts of “Rain in the Valley,” by The Steel Wheels; “Flying Cloud Reel,” by No Strings Attached; “Geese Piece,” by Torrin Hallett.
SHIP’S BELL
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 snow words were recorded on January 20, 2016, courtesy of several Blacksburg, Va., friends. These sounds were part of Episode 300, 1-25-16.
The spectrometer for measuring greenhouse gases in soil samples was recorded on April 13, 2016, at the water-quality lab of Virginia Tech’s Biological Systems Engineering Department, courtesy of Tyler Weiglein. This sound was part of Episode 312, 4-18-16.
Passage Creek in Fort Valley, in Shenandoah County, Va., was recorded on August 22, 2016. This sound was part of Episode 331, 8-29-16.
The sound of the Ruddy Turnstone 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 the “Music of Nature” Web site, http://www.musicofnature.org/. This sound was part of Episode 315, 5-9-16.
The sound of the Barking Treefrog was taken from “The Calls of Virginia Frogs and Toads” CD, copyright 2008 by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and Lang Elliott/NatureSoundStudio, used with permission. For more information on the CD, see https://www3.dgif.virginia.gov/estore/proddetail.asp?prod=VW252. This sound was part of Episode 319, 6-6-16.
The names of Chesapeake Bay submerged aquatic vegetation, or “Bay grasses,” were recorded on July 13, 2016, at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg by visiting students from Achievable Dream High School in Newport News. More information about Achievable Dream schools in Newport News is available online at http://achievabledream.nn.k12.va.us/. These sounds were part of Episode 325, 7-18-16.
The sound of gases bubbling up from the bottom of a pond was recorded at Heritage Park in Blacksburg, Va., on July 27, 2016. The sound was part of Episode 333, 9-12-16.
Stormwater flowing through a culvert was recorded in Blacksburg, Va., on September 26, 2016. This sound was part of Episode 338, 10-17-16.
Waves at Croaker Landing in York River State Park were recorded on December 5, 2016, by Timothy Seaman. Tbhe sound was part of Episode 346, 12-12-16.
“Rain in the Valley” is from The Steel Wheels’ 2012 album, “Lay Down, Lay Low,” used with permission. More information about The Steel Wheels is available online at http://www.thesteelwheels.com/. This music was used in Episode 328, 8-8-16, on flash flooding.
“Flying Cloud Reel/Rusty Piper,” by No Strings Attached, is from the 1999 album “In the Vinyl Tradition—Volume I,” from Enessay Music, used with permission. More information about No Strings Attached is available online at http://www.enessay.com/. This music was part of Episode 315, 5-9-16, on sandpipers.
“Geese Piece,” composed for Virginia Water Radio, is copyright 2016 by Torrin Hallett, used with permission. More information about Mr. Hallett is available at his Web site, http://www.torrinjhallett.com/. The music was used in Episode 335, 9-26-16, on Canada Geese.
PHOTOS
Two water snapshots from 2016: upper—snow around American Beech trees in Blacksburg, Va., on January 24; lower—storm clouds over Brush Mountain north of Blacksburg September 26.
RELATED VIRGINIA WATER RADIO EPISODES
All Water Radio episodes are listed by category at the Index link above (http://www.virginiawaterradio.org/p/index.html).
Previous “year of sounds/music” episodes include the following:
2015 – Episode 295, 12/21/15;
2014 – Episode 246, 12/29/14;
2013 – Episode 193, 12/23/13;
2012 – Episode 141, 12/17/12.
STANDARDS OF LEARNING (SOLs) FOR VIRGINIA TEACHERS
This episode may help with Virginia 2013 Music SOLs at various grade levels that call for “examining the relationship of music to the other fine arts and other fields of knowledge.”
The episodes listed and hyperlinked above under Audio Notes and Acknowledgments may help with various SOLs in Science and Social Studies. For specific SOLs, please see the online show notes for each episode.
Virginia’s SOLs are available from the Virginia Department of Education, online at http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/.
