The "Noise from Newfoundland" is a real noise recorded somewhere in Newfoundland.
If you think you know the Noise from Newfoundland, drop a line to the Great Eastern with your guess.
(Here's how.)We put all the guesses we receive in an old Royal Mail mailbag and every week we pull out one entry.
The person who correctly identifies the sound receives a lovely souvenir from the BCN kiosk in the lobby
of the Broadcast Center. All entries become property of the BCN and the decision of judge
Hollis Duffett is final.
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What's That Noise from Newfoundland?
Unfortunately, the Newfoundland Telegraph and Telecommunications Comission forbids broadcast of the April 24 Noise from Newfoundland to Canada because of the expiry of the trilateral trade agreement between Newfoundland, Panama and Canada. This prohibition extends to the web services of the great Eastern as well.
Susan Lantos of Ottawa, Ontario correctly identified the April 10, 1999 noise as that of seals calling out underwater. Catherine Feeley (sp?) of Halifax, Nova Scotia correctly identified the January 16th noise as ice freezing on a lake. The lake, specifically, was historic Quidi Vidi Lake in St. John's. Congratulations Catherine! John Mallam of St. John's correctly identified the November 28 Noise from Newfoundland as the sound of construction at the new St. John's Municidrome. Congratulations John! Gord Locke of Newfoundland won the October 31 What's That Noise From Newfoundland by correctly guessing it was a Pine Marten--an "animal near extinction because of the interminable quest by international cartels for trees which they turn into the National Enquirer and the Globe and Post." Congratulations Gord.
Here's that noise from GE Oct. 31, 1998 Karen Goldblatt of Downsview Ontario correctly identified the last Noise from Newfoundland as “the sound you hear when you hold iceberg ice up against your ear.” And indeed, it is the sound of ten million year old ice melting in a tumbler of rum. Congratulations. Here's that noise, from GE Oct. 3, 1998 Cathy Merriman from Toronto won the What's That Noise from Newfoundland contest on October 3, 1998. She writes: "That noise is a humpback whale surfacing to breathe dodging whalewatching tourists off the coast at Witless Bay..." Here's that noise, originally broadcast on GE Sept. 12, 1998.
Noises from the 1997-98 season The noise from Newfoundland from GE Feb. 21, 1998, was correctly identified in the last
show of the season--GE March 28, 1998. Ted Thorne correctly identified the sound of a ferry docking - precisely, it was the Bell Island ferry docking at Portugal Cove.
Val and Carrie Jenson of Orleans, Ontario correctly identified the Jan. 10 noise as a load
of fish being dumped on a scale at a fish processing plant (a fish farm actually, but close enough!
Here's that noise:
Matthew Deline and Christie Taylor of Ontario correctly identified that last
sound as a hunter giving direction to his retreiver as it darts off for prey. Here's the
noise from October 25, 1997.
Mr. Vivek Krishnamurthy of Orleans, Ontario correctly identified the last
Noise from Newfoundland as the creaking of the rigging aboard the Matthew when she was in St. John's, Newfoundland
this past summer. Here's the Noise (from GE September 27):
Mr. John Archibald of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia guessed the September 13 noise
to be the sound of a hot-air balloon being inflated at the Balloon Festival in Gander
held in the summer of 1997. Here's the noise: If you think you know what that noise is contact the Great Eastern immediately. |
