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06/29/2019 found tape excerpts

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ChrisReierson

June 30th, 2019

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Speech > Processed / Synthetic
found sound

Excerpts from a tape found in an old answering machine I bought on 06/29/2019, and a rather ominous-sounding one at that...

Full disclosure: I will often edit these "found sound" snippets prior to upload, usually to protect peoples' privacy and for the sake of brevity, and this file is no exception. However, even in the context of the full tape, I'm still not exactly sure what's going on here. I'll try to fill in the gaps:

In addition to the hot tub mentioned about 14 seconds in, there's also messages about a washing machine and an ice machine that I didn't include here for privacy reasons. Apparently, whoever was receiving these messages was in the process of moving to a new address, but later on there's repeated calls from the moving/installation companies saying that no such address exists, and that the phone number for the new address doesn't exist either. Then there's the voice of the man about 25 seconds in, who I'm willing to bet is a divorcee by the way he's talking, albeit an obviously concerned one. The weirdest and somewhat disturbing part, which I also left out here, is the collect calls starting about 1:01 in. On the full tape, there's five or six instances of these collect calls, and with each instance, the person calling sounds gradually more worried (I cut the name out of this person, who would've otherwise been heard at about 1:03 in).

Did I stumble onto lost evidence for some unsolved mystery?

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answering-machine
collect-call
dial-tone
dialtone
found-sound
human
mundane
mystery
speech
telephone

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

2:59.646

File size

30.2 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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Fishforbrains

1 year, 8 months ago

Thanks for sharing

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beautifulday...

2 years, 4 months ago

Oho the first 30 seconds of this are GOLD. As a woman who's been stalked by about eighty? men? THOSE MESSAGES ARE HOW IT STAA-AARTS... shudder... :{

SilverIllusi...

5 years, 7 months ago

Very cool. Relics from a forgotten time, lost to mystery forever.

TA-AT

6 years, 1 month ago

LOL, nice job!

Agnostura_Elwar

6 years, 2 months ago

Hi Chris
Strange and interesting, I used parts of this recordings on my track: https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/connection/comment-772739947

Thanks!!

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