Can be a particular visa required for recording a song? [closed]

Let's pretend i'm a indie musician and want to collaborate with another foreign indie musician and record a song featuring him/her.

I perfectly understand that actually touring/performing in public, and getting paid for it, would be considered as work, and, for example, a tourist/business visa/travel authorization, either for the musician to come into my country or for me to come into the musician's country, would be surely unfit for that purpose.

But what about just recording a song and then never performing it live at all in that country? Would that account as some kind of performance too and require getting petitioned for a work/specialty visa beforehands, even though i'm not getting paid at all for recording the song per se and even though i'm immediately leaving that country/the foreign musician is immediately leaving my country right after being done with the "meeting"?

I'm not referring to any country in particular. I just want to understand immigration laws better.

However, being immigration laws peculiar in some aspects to each country, a purely illustrative example, so that i can then study the immigration laws of each country myself, is needed, and this example is: a Russian-based musician that wants to collaborate with an UK-based musician.