ROBERT SIEGEL, host: Some of our listeners collect sounds when they travel. Our sound clip today is from one of them.</s>Mr. SCOTT VENDETEN: My name is Scott Vendeten. I live in Oceanside, California. And I work in TV and film music, primarily as a composer. And I was in Japan two Christmases ago in a small town called Nada, which is just outside of Kyoto, the old spiritual capital of Japan. And there in Nada, they have a massive wooden temple housing an equally massive bronze cast of Buddha, twenty-plus feet high.</s>Mr. SCOTT VENDETEN: And when I was there, a group of about 30 men and women stood in front of the Buddha and they began to chant.</s>Mr. SCOTT VENDETEN: So I think this is cool for a couple reasons. One thing is the tone that they used in their voices. You'll hear the tone go up and down at certain points marking the sections of this chant that they're doing, and it keeps everybody together and it also makes it easier to remember.</s>Mr. SCOTT VENDETEN: What you're able to do is have a huge group of people say the same thing at the same time and create this kind of quasi-hypnotic effect, bringing all those people into one entity, and then getting into this quasi-hypnotic state through the chant, so that's why thought it was really cool.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, host: A sound clip from Scott Vendeten of Oceanside, California. You can find out more about this series at NPR.org, search for SoundClips.
Some of our listeners collect sounds when they travel. One of them is Scott Van Dutton from Oceanside, Calif. He shares a soundclip of the sounds of Buddhist chanting in Nara, just outside Kyoto, Japan.