Digital manipulation of an ambient recording of a domestic dispute two houses away from us
4/26/2013
bret harold hart
gear:
DR85 digital memo recorder
DOD Classic Fuzz
POD 2.0 stereo multiFX/cabinet simulator
E-H QTron & NanoClone
Behringer phase shifter, delay, pitch shifter, compressor
Shure SM58
Tascam digital recording platform
This is a snapshot of the kind of baloney our police department has to deal with. Ironically, we live on a street with "Historic District" signage, despite having the same substance & domestic abuse issues as the neighborhoods in town with bad reputations.
Apparently (FYI-the same thing happened two years ago on Thanksgiving), this couple's partying got out of hand the other night and the woman found herself locked out of the house, screaming and beating on the door to be let-in. Did he push her out of the house and lock the door? or did she come outside herself and did the already locked door close behind her?
My wife and I listened to an hour of this, then three police cruisers pulled up. She told them that she'd called 911 because "he locked me out of my house and it's cold out here". It seemed to us that the guy inside was passed-out, because he wouldn't come to the door even when the cops were knocking and calling to him. The cops explained that there wasn't much they could do and said "being locked out by your boyfriend is not a 911 situation." She apologized for "bothering" them, and the cruisers drove off. Before their taillights went over the crest of the hill, she was screaming and beating on the door again. We heard glass break.
I decided to document what I was witnessing.