GE 1998-9 Season 5 Episode 25: What's That Noise?
Note: this is not a transcript, but a working draft of the script, so there may be differences in the aired version.
PAUL: Take a deep breath, hold it in, count to three,
now let it out fully. All the way out. Exhale everything.
Close your eyes, turn off your mind, relax and float downstream,
lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void, release all
preoccupations and abstractions. Go into neutral, slo-o-o-o-w
down ... take another deep breath, hold it, and get ready to
play the most demanding game show on the long wave, "What's
That Noise From Newfoundland."
Hollis Duffett, unleash the current clamor on an unsuspecting
nation.
SFX: THE NOISE
Down into the collected hopes and whimsy of our ... hmmm ? Oh,
yes, breath out, breath out. Good point, Hollis.
Alright, into the guesses of our listening audience I delve,
in hopes there to find ... this, it's an e-mail, and it comes
to us out of the information swamp from Smithers, BC ... gee,
I thought Smithers was a butler ... Hildo Hoek of Smithers
writes: "The "sound" clip on the Sat, April 10th program was
fireworks and huskies at the celebrations of the entry of
Nunavut as a territory of Canada. It's a sound I'll never forget!"
Gee, Hildo, without even checking with Judge Hollis Duffett,
I can guess it is not a correct response, because that is
not a noise from Newfoundland. But Hollis ?
No, I thought not. Our sound is definitely from Newfoundland.
I'll just draw another one ...
Hollis says I can't. Well, I'm going to anyway ... no ?
I can't ?
Humph, there you are. So much for individual freedoms.
So, Mr. Duffett, full speed ahead and give us another c
ochleaful of colourful noise.
SFX: THE NOISE
Recognize that ? It's the noise from hereabouts, and if you
do know what it is, enter our contest, c/o the BCN, 342
Duckworth St., St. John's, A1C 1H5, or you can e-us,
greateastern@stjohns.cbc.ca.
The natural confluence of noise and sound, the organization
of the random into the unique and expressive, the distillation
of the soul and heart of an artist - this brings us to music.