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08 Jan 12 - 02:24 PM (#3287123) Subject: BS: The Water Boatman's Song From: GUEST,CJB BBC Radio 4 - Nature - Series 5 Episode 2 - The Water Boatman's Song Paul Evans goes in search of the Water Boatman's song. ==== Ooer - and I thought that this was about searching for a folk song!!! Anyway - some might be interested in this fascinating sound!! ==== http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=nature http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0194mvq http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/06/17/tiny-water-insect-makes-record-breaking-song-with-his-penis/ ==== |
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08 Jan 12 - 02:26 PM (#3287124) Subject: RE: BS: The Water Boatman's Song From: GUEST,CJB For over a year, sound recordist Tom Lawrence has been capturing the sounds of Pollardstown Fen in Ireland. These are no ordinary sounds, but the sounds of a hidden world; an underwater world, where an orchestra of creatures create an extraordinary and vibrant music. Above the water's surface, grasshoppers and crickets stridulate; that is, they rub one part of their body across another to produce 'those fiddling tunes so evocative of summer'. Below the surface, something similar happens as water beetles, water scorpions, great diving beetles, water boatmen and lesser water boatmen and hundreds of other species produce sounds day and night at over 2Khz, reaching 99 decibels in some cases - the equivalent of sitting in the front row of an orchestra "Tapping, knocking, hammering, drumming, clicking, creaking, cracking, croaking, buzzing, fuzzing, bleeping, winding, reeling, revving, puttering, pattering, humming, pulsing, squealing, shrieking.... the insects reveal themselves". Writer and narrator Paul Evans meets Tom Lawrence and takes a journey into the Fen to hear these sounds for himself. Tom leads the way. His friend, Jim Schofield joins them, bringing with him a boat (an inflatable boat that they first have to pump up), and then the three men 'wobble' along reed-lined drains into the Fen. It's a journey of revelations; not only does Paul encounter the underwater orchestra, but also Old Ireland and with it a magical adventure; They find a snake, haul up a bag of treasure, climb the steps of a Famine Tower, experience vertigo as they stand with their heads in the clouds high above the quarried land, watch Peregrines swipe through the air like sharp knives, and learn the story of a hanged man, his lost love and a vixen who wanders amongst the reeds, her piercing cry echoing through the darkness. Producer Sarah Blunt. |
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08 Jan 12 - 02:31 PM (#3287127) Subject: RE: BS: The Water Boatman's Song From: katlaughing I look forward to listening to it. Thanks! |
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08 Jan 12 - 05:14 PM (#3287192) Subject: RE: BS: The Water Boatman's Song From: Jeri Vaginas do monologues and penises sing. Who knew? |
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08 Jan 12 - 06:06 PM (#3287228) Subject: RE: BS: The Water Boatman's Song From: GUEST "They find a snake..." - I thought that Ireland was snake free? Something to do with St.Patrick? |
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09 Jan 12 - 02:09 PM (#3287657) Subject: RE: BS: The Water Boatman's Song From: GUEST,Eliza Quite right, GUEST, there are no snakes in the wild in Ireland. It may have been a slow-worm (a legless lizard) (Had it been to the pub?) |
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12 Jan 12 - 10:50 AM (#3289310) Subject: RE: BS: The Water Boatman's Song From: ChrisJBrady Here's the prog. - available to Jan 1 2099 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0194mvq/Nature_Series_5_Episode_2_The_Water_Boatmans_Song/ |
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12 Jan 12 - 02:30 PM (#3289459) Subject: RE: BS: The Water Boatman's Song From: Charmion Are there other kinds of boatman? |