Exploring a category of sounds that we don’t often get to experience in isolation, ASMR Choir brings together a unique instrument, rich in close-mic’d ‘tiny’ sounds. Focusing on the lower-dynamics, it’s the musical equivalent of someone whispering in your ear. Recorded in the main room at Max Richter’s Studio Richter Mahr, this collection includes four separate instruments. A choir specialising in Renaissance music, including Grace Davidson (soloist in SLEEP), is at the heart of ASMR Choir, with a small string section of solo violin and cello, recorded both independently and then together with the choir, in situ. Those recordings are then used as the source for a fourth ‘processed’ instrument, drawing on analogue vocoders, a texture that Max loves and has utilised a number of times in his film scoring work. The result is a low-dynamic, ultra-close palette of choral and string textures, providing a really special colour to add both a purity and ‘humanness’ to your score.
