Unusual recording sessions

[rob aylestone]

I figured I've recorded most things over the years, but this year has been 1st time for a few things - Recording poetry with visuals for use during services at cremations. Bit of a music bed with words to go with images from the person who has died's lifetime. Sombre stuff. Then today a phone call from a Hindu guy who (I think) wants to record some kind of prayer chant - again over music, but where some more unusual non-speech sounds he makes need recording faithfully - so I am going to have a fella in the studio making noises and chanting. This will me a new one for me.

Has anyone else recorded any really unusual or odd stuff? If you have do share stories.

 

[RRuskin]

A psychic who claimed to channel 15 cosmic energies who requested a different mic for each of them.

 

[Papanate]

I figured I've recorded most things over the years, but this year has been 1st time for a few things - Recording poetry with visuals for use during services at cremations. Bit of a music bed with words to go with images from the person who has died's lifetime. Sombre stuff. Then today a phone call from a Hindu guy who (I think) wants to record some kind of prayer chant - again over music, but where some more unusual non-speech sounds he makes need recording faithfully - so I am going to have a fella in the studio making noises and chanting. This will me a new one for me.

Has anyone else recorded any really unusual or odd stuff? If you have do share stories.

I've recorded (a while back) some Indian instruments - the weirdest one was the Sarangi -The Sarangi is two feet long,- made of a single piece of red cedar wood, and has three resonance chambers with three or four main gut strings and between 11 and 37 sympathetic metal strings - it has a voice like quality - that mixed with the vocals was crazy wild - I’m not so sure I did a good job - but the musicians were happy so maybe I did!

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