Recording Osho's discourses on audio and video

 This page is under construction --Sugit (talk) 16:27, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Introduction

This page describes the recording of Osho's discourses and interviews, and the various conversions and editing-processes that have occurred. This has resulted in several editions of the audio and video recordings existing next to each other.

This is based on accounts given by Sw Jalal, the main audio technician from 1979 to 1995, in E-mails from 28 June 2019 to 28 April 2020.

It also describes what is known about changes to the content of the audio. Up until about 2005 audio quality was being ameliorated, but content seems to have remained largely unchanged. Well, that is apart from occasional cuts made on the orders of Ma Anand Sheela, including one "lost" tape.

But from the audio edition of about 2010, systematic changes to the content are being made.

Recording

Pre 1974

mass lecturing, Bombay

Recording was done by various people around India (including Laheru, see his Blessed Moments with Osho).

Recording tape was on cassette and small tape reels (1/4 inch mainly at (xxx something missing here)

1974-79 Pune 1

Recording was done by Ashvagosha and Pratik (both living in Devon at present)

xxx who was making the videos from that period?

1979-81 Pune 1

Recording of audio was done by Hasibo and Jalal

Recording of video was done by Mutribo, Harp, Premraj

Recording was done on 10inch reels, 1/2 inch tape (Ampex 456, BASF) at 7.5ips on a Nagra IS [1] with a backup cassette on a Nakamichi 550.

xxx how was videos recorded?

1984-85 Ranch

Recording of audio was done by Premartha, Arpito Hans

Recording of video was done by Mutribo, Harp

1986 World Tour

Recording of audio and video was done by Niskriya and others

1987-90 Pune 2

Recording of audio was done by Jalal

Recording of video was done by Niskriya, Bikkhu

Throughout the period 1974-94 there were full notes kept of what was done by whom. The archive project information was kept on computer and I have that, but all before that was written in notebooks. I know the notebooks survived for a while (they traveled to the Ranch and back to Pune 2 I think) but then I lost track of them. Probably mouldering somewhere in a basement.

Conversions and editing

• 1990-96 London Archive project: Loki, Jalal, Michel, many others.
• 2005-10 xxx

see also

Editing of sources