One-Minute Vacations: incidental audio

Cory Doctorow 7:12 am Mon Jan 6, 2003

One-Minute Vacations are recordings of incidental audio from around the world. Cue it up, close your eyes, play the track and go somewhere else. A new recording is posted every Monday.

'Recorded about noon on December 3, 2002, on a city lake in St. Paul, MN. For a short period most years there is a time of continuous Ice Booming. The weather must be just right and the ice must be the right thickness for continuous booming. Recorded about 75 yards from shore after one of the first 0 degree F nights with about three inches of ice. The sound is created as the ice expands and builds during these early cold winter days. If there is no snow cover as in this recording the sound carries for great distances… No filtering or amplification done of any kind; recorded with a single Sennheiser ME-62 located 6 inches off the ice and a Sony MZ-R90 Minidisc recorder.' This vacation was contributed by nature recordist and soundscape designer Rich Peet.

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