{
  "id": "bazantar",
  "name": "Bazantar (Deutsch sympathetic-string bass)",
  "family": "bowed",
  "class": "bass",
  "axes": {
    "pitchFix": -2,
    "sustain": 2,
    "polyphony": 1,
    "harmonicity": 1,
    "register": -2,
    "range": 2,
    "articulation": 2,
    "transduction": -2,
    "dynamics": 1
  },
  "short": "bazantar",
  "parts": [
    {
      "id": "bowed_technique",
      "name": "Bow technique",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "bowed_legato_classical",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Classical legato",
          "descriptors": [
            "legato",
            "sustained"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "classical",
            "classical-trained"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "classical"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "_fromFamily": true
    },
    {
      "id": "bazantar_excitation",
      "name": "Excitation / bow technique",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "bazantar_sustained_arco",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Sustained arco on the low melody strings (sympathetic bank blooming)",
          "descriptors": [
            "sustained-drone",
            "sympathetic-halo",
            "subterranean"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "drone-foundation",
            "low-register"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "drone",
            "contemporary"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "bazantar_pizzicato",
          "name": "Pizzicato / thumb-plucked (dry attack over ringing sympathetics)",
          "descriptors": [
            "finger-plucked",
            "resonant",
            "percussive"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "sympathetic-resonant",
            "low-register"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "bazantar_col_legno_scrape",
          "name": "Col legno and hair-scrape (extended technique)",
          "descriptors": [
            "scraped",
            "extended-technique",
            "textural"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "rough-tone",
            "scraped"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "free-improvisation",
            "experimental"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "bazantar_resonance",
      "name": "Sympathetic and drone bank",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "bazantar_full_bank",
          "default": true,
          "name": "All 29 sympathetics plus 4 drones open and ringing",
          "descriptors": [
            "sympathetic-halo",
            "resonance-saturated",
            "shimmering"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sympathetic-resonant",
            "drone-foundation"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "contemporary"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "bazantar_drones_only",
          "name": "Drone strings tuned to a modal pedal, sympathetics damped",
          "descriptors": [
            "modal",
            "focused",
            "drone-under-melody"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "drone-foundation",
            "low-register"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "bazantar_fully_damped",
          "name": "Sympathetics and drones damped (plain acoustic bass voice)",
          "descriptors": [
            "damped",
            "dry",
            "bass"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "low-register",
            "acoustic-only"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "bazantar_idiom",
      "name": "Idiom / repertoire",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "bazantar_hindustani_fusion",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Hindustani-derived slow unfolding on the contrabass (Deutsch idiom)",
          "descriptors": [
            "alap-jor-jhala",
            "meditative",
            "raga-derived"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "drone-foundation",
            "ornamented",
            "microtonal-bend"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "hindustani",
            "fusion"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "bazantar_new_music_solo",
          "name": "Solo / duo new-music writing",
          "descriptors": [
            "exploratory",
            "through-composed",
            "soloistic"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "soloistic",
            "contemporary"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "contemporary",
            "solo"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "bazantar_film_bed",
          "name": "Film and library low drone bed",
          "descriptors": [
            "cinematic",
            "dread-building",
            "atmospheric"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "drone-foundation",
            "sustained-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "film-scoring",
            "dark-ambient"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "bazantar_build",
      "name": "Build / string count",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "bazantar_five_string",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Five-string acoustic bass carrying the modular graphite sympathetic housing (1997 build)",
          "descriptors": [
            "five-string",
            "modern-build",
            "boutique"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "low-register",
            "acoustic-only"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "five_string"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "bazantar_six_string_claim",
          "name": "Six-string bass body (as stated in Deutsch's own bio note)",
          "descriptors": [
            "six-string",
            "variant"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "low-register",
            "bass-register"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_ownParts": [
    {
      "id": "bazantar_excitation",
      "name": "Excitation / bow technique",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "bazantar_sustained_arco",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Sustained arco on the low melody strings (sympathetic bank blooming)",
          "descriptors": [
            "sustained-drone",
            "sympathetic-halo",
            "subterranean"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sustained-tone",
            "drone-foundation",
            "low-register"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "drone",
            "contemporary"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "bazantar_pizzicato",
          "name": "Pizzicato / thumb-plucked (dry attack over ringing sympathetics)",
          "descriptors": [
            "finger-plucked",
            "resonant",
            "percussive"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "plucked",
            "sympathetic-resonant",
            "low-register"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "bazantar_col_legno_scrape",
          "name": "Col legno and hair-scrape (extended technique)",
          "descriptors": [
            "scraped",
            "extended-technique",
            "textural"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "rough-tone",
            "scraped"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "free-improvisation",
            "experimental"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "bazantar_resonance",
      "name": "Sympathetic and drone bank",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "bazantar_full_bank",
          "default": true,
          "name": "All 29 sympathetics plus 4 drones open and ringing",
          "descriptors": [
            "sympathetic-halo",
            "resonance-saturated",
            "shimmering"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "sympathetic-resonant",
            "drone-foundation"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "contemporary"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "bazantar_drones_only",
          "name": "Drone strings tuned to a modal pedal, sympathetics damped",
          "descriptors": [
            "modal",
            "focused",
            "drone-under-melody"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "drone-foundation",
            "low-register"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "bazantar_fully_damped",
          "name": "Sympathetics and drones damped (plain acoustic bass voice)",
          "descriptors": [
            "damped",
            "dry",
            "bass"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "low-register",
            "acoustic-only"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "bazantar_idiom",
      "name": "Idiom / repertoire",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "bazantar_hindustani_fusion",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Hindustani-derived slow unfolding on the contrabass (Deutsch idiom)",
          "descriptors": [
            "alap-jor-jhala",
            "meditative",
            "raga-derived"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "drone-foundation",
            "ornamented",
            "microtonal-bend"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "hindustani",
            "fusion"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "bazantar_new_music_solo",
          "name": "Solo / duo new-music writing",
          "descriptors": [
            "exploratory",
            "through-composed",
            "soloistic"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "soloistic",
            "contemporary"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "contemporary",
            "solo"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "bazantar_film_bed",
          "name": "Film and library low drone bed",
          "descriptors": [
            "cinematic",
            "dread-building",
            "atmospheric"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "drone-foundation",
            "sustained-tone"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "film-scoring",
            "dark-ambient"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "bazantar_build",
      "name": "Build / string count",
      "variants": [
        {
          "id": "bazantar_five_string",
          "default": true,
          "name": "Five-string acoustic bass carrying the modular graphite sympathetic housing (1997 build)",
          "descriptors": [
            "five-string",
            "modern-build",
            "boutique"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "low-register",
            "acoustic-only"
          ],
          "canonical_tags": [
            "five_string"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "bazantar_six_string_claim",
          "name": "Six-string bass body (as stated in Deutsch's own bio note)",
          "descriptors": [
            "six-string",
            "variant"
          ],
          "match_tokens": [
            "bowed",
            "low-register",
            "bass-register"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}