What's been your most unconventional production technique?

[Kochari]

sometimes ill make a song standing up

Thats fucking mental.

I once found loads of battered/broken cymbals and snare drums in a skip, wrapped some mikes in acoustic foam and recorded it. Sounded fucking great, all crunchy and nice.
Also pitching around ambient samples (streets/traffic/whatever), adding delay with huuge feedback, turning it into pads.
And re-recording samples, playing it back, re-recording, playing back, etc etc until you have audio soup. MMMMMMMMMMMMM.

[upstateface]

Inb4 BasicA saying everything

[antithesis]

i do performances / recordings with straight feedback modulation.. headphone out straight to input one on mixer.... maybe throw some distortion or digital delays....

my latest recording chain was "singing bowl" on top of an amp > contact mic, plugged in to a boss dd5 line 6 DL4 = lush thick dreamscape drone master...
but i only claim to make noise.

[-[2]DAY_-]

Some inspiring ideas in here. I once tried a field recording of myself banging against a chain-link fence. It had a nice transient with rattling decay. So I pitched it up a bunch and used it as a hihat. Didn't sound wonderful, but i think similar techniques could.

[JFK]

Left my field recorder in an old church over night. Caught tthe sounds of the old beams/wooden floor creaking and the wind whistling etc. Good qulaity ambience to be had like this.

[hurlingdervish]

making the majority of a song play out by holding one note down with instrument racks. percussion included. think tons of chains and lots of delays with no feedback and 100% wet setting. its more of a fun puzzle type thing to do than anything else.