One Minute Vacations

Put on you headphones and spare a minute to take a one-minute vacation from the life you are living.

One-minute vacations are unedited recordings of somewhere, somewhen. Sixty seconds of something else. Sixty seconds to be someone else.

This project is inspired by Aaron Ximm, the Quiet American.

A new one-minute vacation will be added each week on Sunday if I can manage it. They will be one-minute field recordings (or one-minute excerpts from longer recordings) which have not been manipulated, edited, composed, or artificially produced.

The ideal recordings captures a unique moment in time and space: a place you just had to be, could never be again, forget you always are. The goal: to transport the listener, if only for a moment, somewhere else.

My notes will include a brief description of the circumstances of recording (this could include place, time, subject, personal significance, the equipment I used, etc) and a maybe a photo, image or drawing.

January 3, 2022 -Gentle sleeping noises in my bedroom in Natick, MA. The clip with recorded with an IPhone SE (2020) using the built in microphone and the Voice Memos App.
January 2, 2022 – Cleaning noises in Natick, MA. The clip with recorded with an IPhone SE (2020) using a headphone as the microphone and the Voice Memos App.
December 31, 2021 – I am in my kitchen with my wife and two of my three children playing Pictionary. I am drawing- badly. The clip with recorded with an IPhone SE (2020) using the built in microphone and the Voice Memos App.
December 15, 2021 -Eighth-graders complete a science lab in Haynes 10 at the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. The clip was recorded with an IPhone SE (2020) using the built-in microphone and the Voice Memos App.
December 15, 2021 -Students listen to a teacher over zone in a World History class at the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. The clip was recorded with an IPhone SE (2020) using the built-in microphone and the Voice Memos App.
December 15, 2021 – I am talking to Jeff Nesbit in the drawing classroom in Rever at the Rivers School, in Weston while he is applying acrylic paint to a large canvas. The clip was recorded with an IPhone SE (2020) using the built in microphone and the Voice Memos
December 8, 2021 -Art teacher, Jeff Nesbit, explains place in a classroom in Rever at the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. The clip was recorded with an IPhone SE (2020) using the built-in microphone and the Voice Memos App.
November 25, 2021 – I am on the Amtrak training going from Boston to Wilmington, Delaware, on Thanksgiving morning. The conductor is collecting tickets. The train is full. The clip was recorded with an IPhone SE (2020) using the built-in microphone and the Voice Memos App.
November 25, 2021 – I am on the Amtrak training going from Boston to Wilmington, Delaware, on Thanksgiving morning. The train is full. The clip was recorded with an IPhone SE (2020) using the built-in microphone and the Voice Memos App.