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"speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ] }, { "id": "falsetto", "name": "Falsetto", "descriptors": [ "airy", "hooty", "gentle" ], "match_tokens": [ "high-falsetto", "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "whistle_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Whistle (M3)", "descriptors": [ "piercing", "thin", "ornamental" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ] }, { "id": "vocal_fry", "name": "Vocal fry (M0)", "descriptors": [ "vocal-fry", "low", "croaky" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ] }, { "id": "kargyraa_register", "surface": false, "name": "Kargyraa (Tuvan low-register throat-singing, subharmonic)", "descriptors": [ "kargyraa", "subharmonic", "two-octaves-below", "ventricular-vibration" ], "match_tokens": [ "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tuvan", "mongolian", "overtone-tradition" ] }, { "id": "sygyt_register", "surface": false, "name": "Sygyt (Tuvan whistle-overtone)", "descriptors": [ "sygyt", "tuvan-whistle", "high-overtone-projection", "isolated-harmonic" ], "match_tokens": [ "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tuvan", "mongolian", "overtone-tradition" ] }, { "id": "extended_whistle_register", "surface": false, "name": "Extended whistle (above coloratura, flute-like)", "descriptors": [ "extended-whistle", "above-c6", "flute-like", "pop-extended-range" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "pop", "r&b" ] }, { "id": "strohbass_register", "auto": false, "name": "Strohbass (sustained pitched fry, sub-bass pedal)", "descriptors": [ "strohbass", "sustained-pitched-fry", "sub-bass-rattle", "choral-pedal-tone" ], "match_tokens": [ "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "russian-orthodox-choral", "oktavist", "barbershop", "basso-profondo" ] }, { "id": "reinforced_falsetto", "auto": false, "name": "Reinforced falsetto (fuller M2, supported not breathy)", "descriptors": [ "reinforced-falsetto", "fuller-supported-m2", "less-air-than-pure-falsetto" ], "match_tokens": [ "high-falsetto", "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "pop", "r&b", "musical-theater" ] }, { "id": "countertenor_register", "auto": false, "name": "Countertenor (developed head/falsetto as primary range)", "descriptors": [ "countertenor-developed-head", "male-alto-to-soprano-range", "trained-m2-primary" ], "match_tokens": [ "high-falsetto", "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "baroque", "early-music", "classical" ] }, { "id": "leggiero_head_coloratura", "auto": false, "name": "Leggiero head (light agile coloratura)", "descriptors": [ "leggiero-light-head", "agile-thin-fold-coloratura", "high-flexible-runs" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "bel-canto", "coloratura", "classical" ] }, { "id": "heavy_m1_belt_register", "auto": false, "name": "Heavy-mechanism belt (M1 carried high, chest-dominant)", "descriptors": [ "heavy-m1-carried-high", "chest-dominant-belt-register", "thick-fold-up-high" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "broadway-belt", "gospel", "soul" ] }, { "id": "oktavist_sub_bass_register", "auto": false, "name": "Oktavist sub-bass (full-voiced extended low modal)", "descriptors": [ "oktavist-modal-sub-bass", "profondo-extended-low-modal", "full-voiced-not-fried-low" ], "match_tokens": [ "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "russian-orthodox-choral", "basso-profondo", "barbershop" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_quality", "surface": false, "name": "Quality / setting", "variants": [ { "id": "chest_mix_belt_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Chest-mix belt (Broadway / contemporary musical theater)", "descriptors": [ "chest-mix-belt", "register-blended-up", "sustained-projection" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "broadway", "contemporary-musical-theater", "mandopop", "eurovision", "scandi-pop", "bubblegum-pop", "hi-nrg", "italo-dance", "italo-house", "eurodance", "commercial-pop-belt" ] }, { "id": "full_chest_belt_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Full-chest belt (gospel / soul / R&B / Mexican ranchera / Latin Caribbean dance-belted)", "descriptors": [ "full-chest-belt", "thyroarytenoid-dominant", "belt-projection" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gospel-belt", "soul-belt", "r&b-belt", "ranchera", "mariachi", "mexican-belt", "son-cubano", "mambo", "bolero", "cha-cha", "bachata", "cumbia", "kompa", "vallenato" ] }, { "id": "twang_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Twang / nasal-forward", "descriptors": [ "forward-resonance", "nasal", "cutting" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "andean", "huayno", "llanero", "joropo", "cajun", "cajun-french" ] }, { "id": "lowered_larynx_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Lowered-larynx voice", "descriptors": [ "larynx-lowered", "dark-color-position", "glottal-articulation" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "country-male", "classic-rock-male", "doom", "sludge", "shoegaze", "early-doom", "70s-heavy" ] }, { "id": "speech_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Speech-quality", "descriptors": [ "conversational", "natural", "present" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "opera_voice", "default": true, "surface": false, "name": "Opera / classical", "descriptors": [ "covered", "ringing", "vibrato-rich" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "aspirated_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Aspirated voice (deliberate breath as expression)", "descriptors": [ "breath-veiled-tone", "air-around-the-note", "intimate-close-hush", "intimate-aspirated" ], "match_tokens": [ "breath-heavy", "aspirated", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "bossa-nova-vocal", "cool-jazz-vocal", "samba", "bossa", "tropicalia", "mpb" ] }, { "id": "incomplete_closure_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Incomplete-closure voice (untrained breath leak)", "descriptors": [ "incomplete-closure-resting", "soft-onset", "untrained-fragile", "child-related" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "untrained-folk", "singer-songwriter", "folk-revival", "britfolk", "confessional" ] }, { "id": "fry_bleed_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Fry-bleed voice (vocal fry leaking into modal)", "descriptors": [ "fry-bleed", "creak-onset", "low-pulse-irregular" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "trumpet-singer-jazz" ] }, { "id": "pressed_phonation_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Pressed phonation (high subglottal pressure + supraglottal constriction)", "descriptors": [ "pressed", "supraglottal-constricted", "strain-audible" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "blue-eyed-soul", "rock-belt", "beijing-opera", "cantonese-opera", "jingju", "chinese-opera" ] }, { "id": "false_fold_voice", "surface": false, "name": "False-fold voice (ventricular phonation)", "descriptors": [ "false-fold-engaged", "ventricular-phonation", "sub-fundamental-buzz" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "kargyraa", "death-growl", "black-metal", "shriek", "canto-tenore", "sardinian-polyphony", "sardinian", "cantu", "tuvan", "khoomei", "throat-singing" ] }, { "id": "breath_admixed_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Breath-admixed voice (incomplete-closure with active phonation)", "descriptors": [ "breath-admixed", "incomplete-closure-active" ], "match_tokens": [ "breathy", "breathing", "speech-derived" ], "canonical_tags": [ "neo-soul", "contemporary-rb", "modern-rb", "melismatic-rb", "late-90s-rb", "2000s-rb", "vocal-stacks" ] }, { "id": "worn_fold_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Worn-fold voice (age / pathology / wear)", "descriptors": [ "worn-fold", "irregular-fold-mass", "age-roughened" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "pre-war-blues", "delta-blues", "piedmont-blues", "country-blues", "jug-band", "field-holler", "arhoolie", "delta-narrative", "blues-narrative" ] }, { "id": "whisper_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Whispered", "descriptors": [ "unvoiced", "close", "exhaled" ], "match_tokens": [ "whispered", "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "register_break_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Register-break voice (voluntary chest-falsetto crack)", "descriptors": [ "register-break-ornamental", "voluntary-cracking" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "country-female", "country-male", "bluegrass", "classic-honky-tonk", "old-time" ] }, { "id": "blues_shouter_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Blues shouter / declamatory belted", "descriptors": [ "blues-shouter", "shouted", "gospel-rooted" ], "match_tokens": [ "blues-derived", "blues-inflected", "speech-derived" ], "canonical_tags": [ "r&b", "soul", "kansas-city", "swing-blues", "jump-blues", "territory-band", "field-holler", "arhoolie", "holler", "cuban-rumba", "guaguanco", "columbia", "yambu" ] }, { "id": "crooner_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Crooner (close-mic intimate, low-dynamic)", "descriptors": [ "close-mic-intimate", "low-dynamic-croon", "smooth-sustained-legato", "microphone-amplification-dependent", "low-dynamic-level", "mid-century", "crooner" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "crooner", "tin-pan-alley", "great-american-songbook", "mid-century", "1930s-1950s" ] }, { "id": "praise_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Praise / declamatory voice", "descriptors": [ "declaimed", "melismatic", "sustained-high-register" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "praise", "gospel", "jeli", "griot", "qawwali", "devotional", "taarab", "arabesk", "mizrahi" ] }, { "id": "nasal_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Nasal / forward-resonant", "descriptors": [ "nasal", "forward-resonant" ], "match_tokens": [ "nasal-color", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "flamenco" ] }, { "id": "yodel_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Yodel (chest-falsetto break)", "descriptors": [ "yodel", "register-break" ], "match_tokens": [ "yodel-style", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "cowboy" ] }, { "id": "sprechgesang_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Sprechgesang (speech-song)", "descriptors": [ "sprechgesang", "speech-pitched" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "keening_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Keening / lament wail", "descriptors": [ "keening", "lament-wail" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sean-nos" ] }, { "id": "fado_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Fado lament voice", "descriptors": [ "lament-wail", "melismatic", "ornate", "saudade" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "fado" ] }, { "id": "rap_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Rap voice", "descriptors": [ "rap", "mc-flow", "rhythmic-speech" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "rap", "hip-hop" ] }, { "id": "child_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Children's choir / treble", "descriptors": [ "child", "treble" ], "match_tokens": [ "child-voice", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "boys-choir" ] }, { "id": "ingenue_childlike_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Ingenue / childlike voice (adult-performed girlish brightness)", "descriptors": [ "girlish-light-bright", "raised-larynx-small-tract", "wide-eyed-ingenue", "adult-performing-childlike" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "musical-theater-ingenue", "idol-pop", "jazz-age-novelty" ] }, { "id": "husky_smoky_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Husky / smoky voice (breath-plus-grain stylistic timbre)", "descriptors": [ "husky-smoky", "breath-plus-grain-simultaneous", "warm-rasp-veiled", "stylistic-not-pathological" ], "match_tokens": [ "breathy", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "torch-song", "blues-rock", "soul" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_vocal_tract", "surface": false, "name": "Vocal-tract / vowel posture", "variants": [ { "id": "tract_neutral", "default": true, "surface": false, "name": "Neutral tract (unmarked)", "descriptors": [] }, { "id": "tongue_root_retracted_dark", "surface": false, "auto": false, "name": "Tongue-root retracted (back-vowel, dark)", "descriptors": [ "tongue-root-retracted", "back-vowel-targeted", "front-consonant-degraded", "pharyngeal-darkened" ] }, { "id": "tongue_root_advanced_bright", "surface": false, "auto": false, "name": "Tongue-root advanced (front-vowel, bright)", "descriptors": [ "tongue-root-advanced", "front-vowel-forward", "consonant-crisp", "oral-brightened" ] }, { "id": "pharyngeal_widened_yawned", "surface": false, "auto": false, "name": "Pharynx widened (yawn-open throat)", "descriptors": [ "pharynx-widened", "yawn-open-throat", "inner-space-expanded" ] }, { "id": "nasalized_tract", "surface": false, "auto": false, "name": "Nasalized (velopharyngeal port open)", "descriptors": [ "nasalized", "velopharyngeal-open", "nasal-coupled-resonance" ] }, { "id": "tongue_retroflex_r_colored", "auto": false, "name": "Tongue retroflex (r-colored, rhotic)", "descriptors": [ "tongue-retroflex-bunched", "r-colored-vowel", "f3-lowered", "rhotic-drawl" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "country", "americana" ] }, { "id": "larynx_raised_brassy", "auto": false, "name": "Larynx raised (short-tract, brassy)", "descriptors": [ "larynx-raised", "tract-shortened", "all-formant-raised-brassy", "thin-bright-call" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "broadway-soubrette", "jingju", "character-voice" ] }, { "id": "lips_spread_smile_bright", "auto": false, "name": "Lips spread (smile-posture, bright)", "descriptors": [ "lips-spread-smile", "front-cavity-shortened", "f2-raised-brightened", "glassy-forward-vowel" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "1960s-girl-group", "surf-pop", "k-pop" ] }, { "id": "lips_rounded_darkened", "auto": false, "name": "Lips rounded-protruded (hooded, dark)", "descriptors": [ "lips-rounded-protruded", "all-formant-lowered", "hooded-darkened-vowel", "blend-muted" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "choral", "early-music", "crooner-era" ] }, { "id": "tract_singers_formant_ring", "auto": false, "name": "Singer's formant cluster (2.8-3.2 kHz ring, cutting ping)", "descriptors": [ "singers-formant-cluster-3k", "operatic-ring-ping", "carrying-over-orchestra" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "opera" ] }, { "id": "tract_jaw_dropped_open_call", "auto": false, "name": "Jaw dropped / open-call resonance (wide oral, shout-carry)", "descriptors": [ "jaw-dropped-wide-oral", "open-call-carrying-resonance", "field-holler-projection" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "field-holler", "gospel-shout" ] }, { "id": "tract_velum_raised_denasal", "auto": false, "name": "Velum raised (fully de-nasalized, clean oral core)", "descriptors": [ "velum-raised-denasalized", "oral-only-no-nasal-coupling", "clean-vowel-core" ], "match_tokens": [] }, { "id": "tract_epilaryngeal_narrowed", "auto": false, "name": "Epilaryngeal tube narrowed (AES resonance boost, ring)", "descriptors": [ "epilaryngeal-tube-narrowed", "aes-resonance-boost-3k", "ring-without-nasal" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "country", "beijing-opera" ] }, { "id": "tract_lengthened_lowered_larynx", "auto": false, "name": "Lengthened tract / lowered larynx (covered, dark formants)", "descriptors": [ "tract-lengthened-lowered-larynx", "covered-darkened-formants", "rounded-warm-depth" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "crooner-era" ] }, { "id": "tract_cupped_hand_muffle", "auto": false, "name": "Cupped-hand / hand-over-mouth muffle (lo-fi filter)", "descriptors": [ "cupped-hand-muffle", "hand-over-mouth-filter", "muted-lo-fi-vocal" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "lo-fi", "harmonica-vocal", "blues" ] }, { "id": "tract_mask_placement_forward", "auto": false, "name": "Forward mask placement (sinus/mask resonance, buzzy-bright)", "descriptors": [ "mask-placement-forward", "sinus-mask-resonance-buzz", "forward-bright-placement" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "musical-theater", "pop" ] }, { "id": "tract_back_swallowed_placement", "auto": false, "name": "Back / swallowed placement (pulled-back, muffled)", "descriptors": [ "back-swallowed-placement", "pulled-back-muffled-tone", "throaty-recessed" ], "match_tokens": [] } ] }, { "id": "voice_effort", "surface": false, "name": "Phonatory effort / subglottal pressure", "variants": [ { "id": "effort_moderate", "default": true, "surface": false, "name": "Moderate effort (unmarked dynamic)", "descriptors": [] }, { "id": "effort_minimal_undersung", "surface": false, "auto": false, "name": "Minimal pressure / under-sung (conversation volume or below)", "descriptors": [ "minimal-subglottal-pressure", "conversation-volume-or-below", "under-sung", "force-withheld" ] }, { "id": "effort_projected", "surface": false, "auto": false, "name": "Projected (raised pressure, carrying)", "descriptors": [ "raised-subglottal-pressure", "projected", "carrying" ] }, { "id": "effort_pressed_maximal", "surface": false, "auto": false, "name": "Pressed / maximal force", "descriptors": [ "maximal-subglottal-pressure", "pressed-loud", "full-force" ] }, { "id": "effort_overdriven_scream", "auto": false, "name": "Overdriven scream pressure (past clean-phonation limit)", "descriptors": [ "overdriven-subglottal-pressure", "source-distorting", "past-clean-limit", "scream-pressure" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "hardcore-punk", "extreme-metal", "raw-scream" ] }, { "id": "effort_fortissimo_sustained", "auto": false, "name": "Sustained full-voice fortissimo (flow phonation at maximal loudness)", "descriptors": [ "sustained-fortissimo", "hall-filling", "flow-phonation-unstrained", "breath-anchored-loud" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "operatic-climax", "stadium-anthem", "gospel-climax" ] }, { "id": "effort_subtone_low_breath", "auto": false, "name": "Subtone (low pressure, intimate breathy-low)", "descriptors": [ "subtone-low-subglottal-pressure", "breath-heavy-low-volume", "intimate-jazz-subtone" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "cool-jazz-vocal", "crooner" ] }, { "id": "effort_messa_di_voce", "auto": false, "name": "Messa di voce (crescendo-decrescendo on one note)", "descriptors": [ "messa-di-voce-swell", "crescendo-then-decrescendo-single-note", "breath-controlled-dynamic-arc" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "bel-canto", "classical" ] }, { "id": "effort_decrescendo_niente", "auto": false, "name": "Decrescendo al niente (fade to nothing)", "descriptors": [ "decrescendo-al-niente", "fade-to-inaudible", "tapered-breath-release" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "art-song" ] }, { "id": "effort_terraced_dynamics", "auto": false, "name": "Terraced dynamics (abrupt loud/soft blocks)", "descriptors": [ "terraced-dynamic-steps", "abrupt-loud-soft-blocks", "baroque-echo-dynamic" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "baroque", "early-music" ] }, { "id": "effort_sforzando_accent", "auto": false, "name": "Sforzando accents (sudden pressure spikes)", "descriptors": [ "sforzando-stress-accent", "sudden-pressure-spike-then-back", "marked-dynamic-jab" ], "match_tokens": [] }, { "id": "effort_pulsed_gospel_push", "auto": false, "name": "Rhythmic breath-pulse push (gospel/soul emphasis)", "descriptors": [ "rhythmic-breath-pulse-push", "gospel-emphasis-surge", "soul-dynamic-swell" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "gospel", "soul" ] }, { "id": "effort_edge_of_clean_cuivre", "auto": false, "name": "Edge-of-clean brassy (cuivré, controlled brink)", "descriptors": [ "edge-of-clean-limit-controlled", "cuivre-brassy-edge", "pressure-brink-not-past" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "rock-belt", "musical-theater" ] }, { "id": "effort_marcato_declamatory", "auto": false, "name": "Marcato declamation (weighted, each note stressed)", "descriptors": [ "marcato-weighted-declamation", "heavy-emphatic-delivery", "each-syllable-pressed" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "opera", "anthem" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_vibrato", "surface": false, "name": "Vibrato", "variants": [ { "id": "straight_tone", "name": "Straight tone", "descriptors": [ "pure", "direct", "instrumental" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "vibrato-rich" ] }, { "id": "slow_vibrato", "default": true, "name": "Slow vibrato (relaxed rate, rounded pulse)", "descriptors": [ "slow-rate", "rounded-even-pulse", "warm-low-mid-resonance", "chest-resonance-low-mid", "expressive", "classical" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived" ], "canonical_tags": [ "classical" ] }, { "id": "fast_vibrato", "name": "Fast vibrato (quick narrow shimmer)", "descriptors": [ "fast-rate", "narrow-quick-shimmer", "nervy-intensity", "nervy", "treble-extended" ], "match_tokens": [ "fast-attack-transient", "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived" ] }, { "id": "diaphragm_vibrato", "name": "Diaphragm vibrato (breath-pulsed loudness wave)", "descriptors": [ "breath-pulsed", "amplitude-loudness-wave", "deliberate-even-pulse", "overtone-rich-sustained", "controlled" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived" ] }, { "id": "oscillating_vibrato", "name": "Wide oscillating vibrato (cry-tinged pitch sway)", "descriptors": [ "wide-pitch-sway", "cry-tinged", "drawled-roll", "bluesy", "expressive" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "country", "blues" ] }, { "id": "delayed_vibrato", "name": "Delayed-onset vibrato (straight tone blooming into vibrato)", "descriptors": [ "straight-onset", "late-blooming-waver", "sustain-then-oscillate", "tasteful", "modern" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "contemporary-pop", "jazz" ] }, { "id": "terminal_vibrato", "name": "Terminal vibrato (straight core, note-end flourish)", "descriptors": [ "straight-note-core", "note-end-flourish", "release-only-waver", "melodic", "period-honest" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "country", "early-music", "period-performance" ] }, { "id": "slow_wide_terminal_vibrato", "auto": false, "name": "Slow, wide, terminal-only", "descriptors": [ "slow-rate", "wide-excursion", "terminal-sustain-only" ] }, { "id": "wobble_vibrato", "auto": false, "name": "Wobble (wide-slow, pitch-center blurring)", "descriptors": [ "wide-slow-oscillation", "pitch-center-blurred", "laboured-sway" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "late-career-operatic", "dramatic-opera" ] }, { "id": "bleat_caprino_vibrato", "auto": false, "name": "Bleat / caprino (fast narrow goat-trill)", "descriptors": [ "fast-bleat-caprino", "goat-trill-narrow-fast", "nervous-tight-flutter" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "early-music-caution" ] }, { "id": "narrow_shimmer_vibrato", "auto": false, "name": "Narrow continuous shimmer (subtle close-mic waver)", "descriptors": [ "narrow-continuous-shimmer", "close-mic-subtle-waver", "pop-tasteful-narrow" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "contemporary-pop" ] }, { "id": "pure_pitch_no_amplitude_vibrato", "auto": false, "name": "Pure-pitch vibrato (fold-tension modulation, no loudness change)", "descriptors": [ "pure-pitch-vibrato-no-amplitude", "fold-tension-modulation-only", "string-like-pitch-waver" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "amplitude_tremolo_vibrato", "auto": false, "name": "Amplitude tremolo (loudness pulse, pitch stays)", "descriptors": [ "amplitude-tremolo-pitch-stable", "loudness-only-pulse", "organ-like-throb" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gospel-organ-vocal" ] }, { "id": "accelerating_vibrato", "auto": false, "name": "Accelerating (slow onset speeding up, intensifying)", "descriptors": [ "accelerating-vibrato-rate", "intensifying-over-sustain", "building-flutter" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "decelerating_widening_vibrato", "auto": false, "name": "Decelerating + widening toward release (dramatic open)", "descriptors": [ "decelerating-widening-toward-release", "dramatic-opening-waver", "slow-wide-finish" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "dramatic-opera", "power-ballad" ] }, { "id": "asymmetric_scoop_vibrato", "auto": false, "name": "Asymmetric under-pitch scoop (leans flat, blues/soul lean)", "descriptors": [ "asymmetric-under-pitch-scoop", "blues-soul-lean-flat-cycle", "bluesy-drawled-sway" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "blues", "soul" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_articulation", "surface": false, "name": "Articulation", "variants": [ { "id": "legato_voice", "default": true, "name": "Legato", "descriptors": [ "continuous-phonation", "connected", "flowing" ], "match_tokens": [ "legato", "sustained-tone", "speech-derived" ] }, { "id": "staccato_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Staccato", "descriptors": [ "punctuated", "percussive", "rhythmic" ], "match_tokens": [ "staccato", "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "melisma_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Melisma-heavy (runs and riffs on single syllables)", "descriptors": [ "multi-note-runs-per-syllable", "cascading-riff-runs", "vowel-carried-flourish", "ornamental", "expressive" ], "match_tokens": [ "melismatic", "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gospel", "r-and-b" ] }, { "id": "spoken_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Spoken / rapped", "descriptors": [ "rhythmic", "forward", "conversational" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ] }, { "id": "shouted_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Shouted / hollered", "descriptors": [ "unrestrained", "outdoor-pitched" ], "match_tokens": [ "shouted", "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "field" ] }, { "id": "narrative_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Narrative / declamatory", "descriptors": [ "narrative", "declamatory", "storytelling" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "r&b", "afrobeat", "soul", "hip-hop" ] }, { "id": "hocket_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Hocket (interlocked note-trading, one melody split across voices)", "descriptors": [ "interlocked-note-trading", "alternating-gap-and-hit", "melody-split-between-voices", "hocket-articulation" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sardinian-polyphony", "medieval-motet", "aka-pygmy-polyphony" ] }, { "id": "call_response_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Call-and-response (leader phrase answered by response phrase)", "descriptors": [ "leader-call-answered", "antiphonal-phrase-exchange", "question-answer-phrasing", "callresponse-articulation", "antiphonal-articulation" ], "match_tokens": [ "call-response", "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "worksong", "gospel", "work-song", "west-african" ] }, { "id": "patter_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Patter (rapid-fire syllabic delivery at tongue-twister tempo)", "descriptors": [ "rapid-fire-syllabic", "tongue-twister-tempo", "breathless-comic-precision", "maximum-syllable-rate" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gilbert-and-sullivan", "opera-buffa", "comic-song" ] }, { "id": "mumbled_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Slurred / mumbled diction (vowel-smeared, consonants swallowed)", "descriptors": [ "vowel-smeared", "consonant-softened", "under-articulated", "half-swallowed-syllables" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "indie", "dream-pop", "mumble-rap", "2010s" ] }, { "id": "marcato_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Marcato (each note marked/separated, weighted)", "descriptors": [ "marcato-each-note-marked", "weighted-separation", "emphatic-detachment" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "opera", "anthem" ] }, { "id": "portato_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Portato (semi-detached, breath-pulsed carry)", "descriptors": [ "portato-semi-detached-carried", "breath-pulsed-legato", "gently-articulated-sustain" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ] }, { "id": "glottal_stop_percussive_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Glottal-stop punctuated (okina / hamza percussive onsets)", "descriptors": [ "glottal-stop-punctuation", "okina-hamza-percussive-onset", "hard-attack-separation" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "hawaiian", "arabic" ] }, { "id": "vocable_syllabic_drum_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Vocable syllable-drumming (konnakol / bol / mouth-music)", "descriptors": [ "vocable-syllable-drumming", "konnakol-bol-mouth-music", "non-lexical-rhythmic-attack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "carnatic-konnakol", "puirt-a-beul", "scat" ] }, { "id": "ululation_trilled_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Ululation (rapid uvular-trilled celebratory)", "descriptors": [ "ululation-rapid-uvular-trill", "celebratory-zaghrouta", "high-trilled-cry" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "middle-eastern", "african", "celebratory" ] }, { "id": "sighed_falling_release_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Sighed falling-off releases (phrase-end downward sigh)", "descriptors": [ "sighed-falling-release", "phrase-end-downward-sigh", "languid-drop-off" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "torch-song", "r&b-ballad", "indie" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_microtone", "surface": false, "name": "Pitch flexibility", "variants": [ { "id": "tempered_voice", "default": true, "name": "Tempered (12-tone-locked)", "descriptors": [ "equal-tempered", "western-default" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend" ], "canonical_tags": [ "pop", "rock", "jazz", "classical-western", "r&b", "modern-music" ] }, { "id": "blue_notes", "name": "Blue notes / bent thirds", "descriptors": [ "blues-inflected", "pitched-between", "expressive" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend" ] }, { "id": "shruti_inflected", "name": "Shruti-inflected (raga)", "descriptors": [ "microtonal", "raga-bound", "ornamental" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "shruti-inflected", "speech-derived" ] }, { "id": "maqam_inflected", "name": "Maqam-inflected (neutral-third quarter-steps)", "descriptors": [ "neutral-third-half-flat", "quarter-step-shading", "between-major-and-minor", "modal-idiomatic-intonation", "maqam-neutral-step" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "shruti-inflected", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "arabic", "middle-eastern", "egyptian", "turkish", "arabic-maqam", "tarab" ] }, { "id": "overtone_singing", "name": "Overtone / harmonic singing", "descriptors": [ "filtered-throat", "formant-shifted" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tuvan" ] }, { "id": "bend_inflected", "name": "Bend-inflected (scooped attacks, curled releases)", "descriptors": [ "scooped-attack", "curled-release", "under-pitch-arrival", "expressive-slide", "bend-inflected", "pitch-bending" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "shruti-inflected", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "flamenco", "blues" ] }, { "id": "portamento_inflected", "auto": false, "name": "Portamento-heavy (audible slides connecting every note)", "descriptors": [ "note-connecting-slide", "swooping-legato", "late-pitch-arrival", "continuous-glide-between-targets" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "early-recording-era", "pre-1930-operatic", "hawaiian-falsetto", "classic-country" ] }, { "id": "just_intonation_pure", "auto": false, "name": "Just intonation (pure beatless ratios, chord-lock)", "descriptors": [ "just-intonation-pure-ratios", "beatless-chord-lock", "harmonic-series-tuning" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "barbershop", "sacred-harp", "choral" ] }, { "id": "pythagorean_leading", "auto": false, "name": "Pythagorean expressive leading tones (wide sharpened semitones)", "descriptors": [ "pythagorean-wide-leading-tone", "expressive-sharpened-semitone", "melodic-tension-tuning" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "expressive-classical" ] }, { "id": "meantone_comma_inflected", "auto": false, "name": "Meantone / comma-inflected (narrow pure thirds, early music)", "descriptors": [ "meantone-comma-inflected", "narrow-pure-third-early-music", "historically-tuned" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "early-music", "renaissance" ] }, { "id": "byzantine_morai_microtone", "auto": false, "name": "Byzantine chant microtones (soft/hard chromatic genera)", "descriptors": [ "byzantine-morai-microtone", "soft-hard-chromatic-genera", "orthodox-modal-shading" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "shruti-inflected", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "byzantine", "orthodox-chant" ] }, { "id": "pelog_slendro_inflected", "auto": false, "name": "Pelog / slendro inflected (gamelan non-tempered, stretched)", "descriptors": [ "pelog-slendro-inflected", "gamelan-non-tempered", "stretched-non-octave-tuning" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gamelan", "indonesian" ] }, { "id": "pentatonic_gapped_glide", "auto": false, "name": "Gapped-pentatonic glides (sliding between anhemitonic degrees)", "descriptors": [ "pentatonic-gapped-glide", "sliding-between-anhemitonic-degrees", "east-asian-pitch-slide" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "chinese", "east-asian" ] }, { "id": "untempered_pitch_drift", "auto": false, "name": "Untempered pitch drift (free-intonation, floating center)", "descriptors": [ "untempered-pitch-drift", "free-intonation-folk", "pitch-center-floating" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "field-recording", "untrained-folk" ] }, { "id": "siren_glissando_full", "auto": false, "name": "Full siren glissando (continuous sweep across register)", "descriptors": [ "full-range-siren-glissando", "continuous-sweep-across-register", "swooping-pitch-sweep" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "avant-garde-vocal", "r&b-run" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_tradition", "surface": false, "name": "Vocal tradition / training", "variants": [ { "id": "modern_pop_vocal_training", "default": true, "name": "Modern pop / contemporary commercial vocal training", "descriptors": [ "modern-pop-training", "contemporary-commercial", "mixed-belt", "studio-ready" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "pop", "modern" ] }, { "id": "appalachian_outlaw_folk_tradition", "auto": false, "name": "Anglo-American folk / outlaw-country (plain narrative, untrained-natural)", "descriptors": [ "anglo-american-folk", "plain-spoken-narrative", "untrained-natural", "outlaw-country-lineage" ] }, { "id": "bel_canto_tradition", "name": "Bel canto (Italian operatic)", "descriptors": [ "bel-canto", "italian-operatic", "sustained-line", "legato-priority" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "classical-trained" ], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "italian" ] }, { "id": "baroque_ornamental_tradition", "name": "Baroque ornamental (trills, divisions, messa di voce)", "descriptors": [ "baroque-ornamental", "messa-di-voce", "period-style", "trill-heavy" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "classical-trained", "period-performance" ], "canonical_tags": [ "baroque", "classical" ] }, { "id": "sean_nos_tradition", "name": "Sean-nós (Irish unaccompanied)", "descriptors": [ "sean-nos", "unaccompanied", "gaelic-tradition", "free-rhythm", "ornamented" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "celtic", "folk" ] }, { "id": "qawwali_tradition", "name": "Qawwali (Sufi devotional)", "descriptors": [ "qawwali", "sufi-devotional", "call-response", "persian-melismatic" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sufi", "south-asian" ] }, { "id": "khoomei_tuvan_tradition", "name": "Khoomei (Tuvan throat-singing)", "descriptors": [ "khoomei", "overtone-singing", "multi-pitch-simultaneous" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tuvan", "mongolian", "central-asian" ] }, { "id": "inuit_katajjaq_tradition", "name": "Inuit katajjaq (throat-singing duet)", "descriptors": [ "katajjaq", "inuit-throat-singing", "duet-game", "breathing-rhythm" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "arctic", "indigenous" ] }, { "id": "hindustani_khyal_tradition", "name": "Hindustani khyal (raga improvisation)", "descriptors": [ "khyal", "hindustani", "raga-improvisation", "meend-ornamentation", "alap-jor-jhala" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "south-asian", "classical" ] }, { "id": "hindustani_dhrupad_tradition", "name": "Hindustani dhrupad (ancient devotional)", "descriptors": [ "dhrupad", "pre-khyal", "austere-meditative", "pakhawaj-accompanied" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "devotional" ], "canonical_tags": [ "south-asian", "classical" ] }, { "id": "carnatic_classical_tradition", "name": "Carnatic (South Indian classical)", "descriptors": [ "carnatic", "south-indian", "gamaka-ornamentation", "kriti-form" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "south-asian", "classical" ] }, { "id": "persian_dastgah_tradition", "name": "Persian dastgah (modal system)", "descriptors": [ "dastgah", "persian-classical", "modal-improvisation", "avaz-ornamentation" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "middle-eastern", "persian", "classical" ] }, { "id": "arabic_maqam_tradition", "name": "Arabic maqam (modal system)", "descriptors": [ "arabic-maqam", "quartertone", "modal-improvisation", "tarab" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "arabic", "middle-eastern", "classical" ] }, { "id": "flamenco_jondo_tradition", "name": "Flamenco cante jondo (deep song)", "descriptors": [ "cante-jondo", "flamenco-deep", "gypsy-andalusian", "melismatic-raw" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "flamenco", "iberian", "romani" ] }, { "id": "flamenco_chico_tradition", "name": "Flamenco cante chico (light style)", "descriptors": [ "cante-chico", "flamenco-light", "festive" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "flamenco", "iberian" ] }, { "id": "operatic_tradition", "name": "Operatic (general, post-Verdi)", "descriptors": [ "operatic", "projected", "classical-resonance", "large-hall" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "classical-trained" ], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "italian" ] }, { "id": "broadway_legit_tradition", "name": "Broadway / musical-theater legit", "descriptors": [ "broadway-legit", "musical-theater", "classical-leaning", "lyric-projection" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "classical-trained" ], "canonical_tags": [ "broadway" ] }, { "id": "gospel_pentecostal_tradition", "name": "Gospel / Pentecostal (call and response, melisma)", "descriptors": [ "gospel-pentecostal", "melismatic", "blues-inflected", "call-response" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gospel", "soul" ] }, { "id": "jazz_scat_tradition", "name": "Jazz scat (vocal improvisation)", "descriptors": [ "scat", "jazz-improvisation", "instrument-emulation" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "jazz" ] }, { "id": "beatboxing_tradition", "name": "Beatboxing (vocal percussion)", "descriptors": [ "beatbox", "vocal-percussion", "mouth-drums" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "hip-hop" ] }, { "id": "microtonal_31tet_tradition", "name": "31-TET / extended-tuning training", "descriptors": [ "31-tet", "extended-tuning", "experimental-tuning" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "experimental" ] }, { "id": "japanese_min_yo_tradition", "name": "Japanese min'yō (folk-vocal lineage)", "descriptors": [ "min-yo", "japanese-folk-vocal", "kobushi-ornament-traces", "koe-on-resonance", "edo-meiji-folk-lineage" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "japanese", "east-asian", "folk" ] }, { "id": "korean_minsogak_vocal_tradition", "name": "Korean minsogak (folk-vocal, distinct from pansori-virtuosity)", "descriptors": [ "korean-minsogak-folk-vocal", "jeong-affect", "sigimsae-ornament-traces", "gyemyeon-pyeong-modal" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "korean", "east-asian", "folk" ] }, { "id": "chinese_classical_vocal_tradition", "name": "Chinese classical vocal (kunqu, jingju, traditional folk)", "descriptors": [ "chinese-classical-vocal", "tonal-language-melody-locked", "mandarin-syllabic-tradition", "qing-yi-laodan-role-types" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "chinese", "east-asian", "classical" ] }, { "id": "polynesian_oli_tradition", "name": "Polynesian oli / mele (Hawaiian, Maori chant)", "descriptors": [ "polynesian-oli-chant", "hawaiian-okina-glottal-onset", "kahiko-mele-tradition", "recitative-free-meter" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "polynesian", "hawaiian", "maori", "oceanic", "indigenous" ] }, { "id": "yoruba_tonal_vocal_tradition", "name": "Yoruba tonal-language vocal (oríkì, praise, ìrèmọjẹ)", "descriptors": [ "yoruba-tonal-vocal", "oriki-praise-tradition", "tonal-language-melody-locked", "west-african-call-response-vocal" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "yoruba", "west-african", "african" ] }, { "id": "scottish_gaelic_taladh_tradition", "name": "Scottish Gaelic tàladh / puirt-a-beul (Hebridean-Highland vocal)", "descriptors": [ "scottish-gaelic-vocal", "taladh-tradition", "hebridean-vocal", "puirt-a-beul-adjacent", "scottish-modal-affect" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "celtic", "scottish-gaelic", "folk" ] }, { "id": "mediterranean_demotic_tradition", "name": "Mediterranean demotic folk-vocal (Greek, Sardinian, Corsican, Romanian, Balkan)", "descriptors": [ "mediterranean-demotic-vocal", "modal-melismatic-folk", "descending-cry-cadence", "professional-keening-tradition-lineage" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "mediterranean", "greek", "sardinian", "balkan", "folk" ] }, { "id": "mande_jeli_vocal_tradition", "name": "Mande jeli / griot vocal (Mali, Senegal, Guinea, Gambia)", "descriptors": [ "mande-jeli-vocal", "griot-praise-narrative-vocal", "pentatonic-jeli-modal-vocal", "west-african-praise-vocal-lineage" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "mande", "west-african", "griot", "praise-vocal" ] }, { "id": "sami_joik_tradition", "name": "Sámi joik / yoik (Nordic Sápmi vocal)", "descriptors": [ "sami-joik-vocal", "yoik-vuelle-luohti", "sapmi-leudd-vocal" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sami", "sapmi", "joik" ] }, { "id": "andean_quechua_tradition", "name": "Andean Quechua / Aymara wayno vocal (Andes highland)", "descriptors": [ "andean-quechua-vocal", "wayno-huayno-aymara", "altiplano-quena-vocal" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "andean", "quechua", "aymara" ] }, { "id": "native_american_vocal_tradition", "name": "Native American vocal (Plains/Southwest powwow & ceremonial)", "descriptors": [ "amerindian-powwow-vocal", "pueblo-amerindian-vocal" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "amerindian", "powwow" ] }, { "id": "southeast_asian_folk_vocal_tradition", "name": "Southeast Asian folk vocal (lam / mor-lam, luk-thung)", "descriptors": [ "morlam-lam-vocal", "isan-luk-thung-vocal", "mekong-khmer-vocal" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "isan", "mekong" ] }, { "id": "southern_african_bantu_vocal_tradition", "name": "Southern African Bantu vocal (Zulu / Xhosa / Tsonga choral chant, isicathamiya to township pop)", "descriptors": [ "nguni-tsonga-sotho-vocal", "isicathamiya-mbube-cothoza", "township-jive-chant-vocal" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tsonga", "zulu", "african" ] }, { "id": "honky_tonk_high_lonesome_tradition", "auto": false, "name": "Country honky-tonk / high-lonesome (hard-twang cry-break)", "descriptors": [ "hard-twang-cut", "cry-break-catch", "high-lonesome-tenor", "nasal-keening-edge" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "country", "honky-tonk", "bluegrass" ] }, { "id": "jamaican_dancehall_toasting_tradition", "auto": false, "name": "Jamaican toasting / dancehall deejay (patois sing-jay)", "descriptors": [ "toasting-deejay-flow", "patois-inflected", "riddim-locked-chat", "melodic-sing-jay" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "reggae", "dancehall", "jamaican" ] }, { "id": "pansori_tradition", "auto": false, "name": "Pansori (Korean epic narrative, roughened virtuosity)", "descriptors": [ "husky-roughened-projection", "epic-narrative-declamation", "trained-hoarse-timbre", "hours-long-endurance" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "pansori", "korean", "gugak" ] }, { "id": "bollywood_playback_tradition", "auto": false, "name": "Bollywood playback (high bright film-song tessitura)", "descriptors": [ "high-bright-tessitura", "thin-fold-agile", "light-classical-ornamented", "mic-close-precision" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "bollywood", "hindi-film-song", "filmi" ] }, { "id": "french_chanson_tradition", "auto": false, "name": "French chanson (diction-first dramatic parlando)", "descriptors": [ "diction-first-text-driven", "dramatic-parlando-swell", "rolled-r-articulation", "cabaret-intimate-to-declaimed" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "chanson", "french", "cabaret" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_compound", "surface": false, "name": "Compound mechanism (multi-source phonation)", "variants": [ { "id": "voice_mechanism_single_source", "default": true, "name": "Single-source phonation (standard fold vibration)", "descriptors": [ "single-source-phonation", "standard-fold-vibration" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_overtone_isolation_F2", "name": "Overtone formant-isolation (F2 reinforcement, 2-3 kHz whistle harmonic over low fundamental)", "descriptors": [ "F2-overtone-isolation", "tongue-narrowed-formant-tuning", "lip-bell-overtone-shaping" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tuvan", "mongolian", "overtone-tradition", "central-asian" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_ventricular_subharmonic", "name": "Ventricular co-oscillation subharmonic (false-folds at half true-fold rate, F0 70-100 Hz)", "descriptors": [ "ventricular-co-oscillation-subharmonic", "false-fold-half-rate-coupling", "octave-down-pitched" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tuvan", "mongolian", "sardinian-polyphony", "tibetan-ritual", "overtone-tradition" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_aryepiglottic_steppe", "name": "Aryepiglottic pseudoglottis steppe-undertone (raspier high subharmonic with AES engagement)", "descriptors": [ "aryepiglottic-pseudoglottis-steppe", "raspier-higher-subharmonic" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tuvan", "mongolian", "overtone-tradition" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_yodel_M1_M2_alternation", "name": "M1↔M2 rapid mechanism-transition (yodel-family register-flip)", "descriptors": [ "M1-M2-rapid-transition", "register-flip-yodel-mechanism" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "yodel-style" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_tahrir_tekye_chain", "name": "Tahrir tekye-chain (glottal-appoggiatura M1→M2 jump-chain per Castellengo/During)", "descriptors": [ "tahrir-tekye-chain-mechanism", "glottal-appoggiatura-jump" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "persian", "middle-eastern", "classical" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_false_fold_distorted", "name": "False-fold distorted (ventricular noise + supraglottic compression, true-folds protected)", "descriptors": [ "false-fold-distorted-phonation", "supraglottic-compression-screamed", "ventricular-aperiodic-noise" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "metal", "hardcore", "death-growl" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_ingressive_paired", "name": "Ingressive-egressive paired-breath alternation (interlocked supraglottic+aryepiglottic both phases)", "descriptors": [ "ingressive-egressive-paired-breath", "interlocked-supraglottic-both-phases" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "inuit-throat-singing", "arctic", "indigenous" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_M0_pulse_borrowed", "name": "M1 with M0-pulse borrowing (fry-modal mix, growl-into-modal)", "descriptors": [ "M1-with-M0-pulse-borrowing", "fry-modal-mix" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_supraglottal_rasp_pitch_stable", "auto": false, "name": "Supraglottal rasp on a clean core (controlled ventricular/AES grain, soft throat-clear; true-fold pitch untouched)", "descriptors": [ "supraglottal-rasp-clean-core", "pitch-stable-distortion", "controlled-ventricular-overlay", "throat-clear-grain" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_diplophonic_biphonation", "auto": false, "name": "Diplophonic biphonation (two independent simultaneous fundamentals, incommensurate F0 from asymmetric/split fold vibration)", "descriptors": [ "two-independent-simultaneous-pitches", "incommensurate-non-harmonic-beating", "rough-double-toned-buzz", "asymmetric-split-fold-oscillation" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "extended-vocal-technique", "avant-garde-vocal", "biphonic" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_quality", "surface": false, "name": "Estill voice-quality configuration (six canonical figure-combinations)", "variants": [ { "id": "voice_estill_speech", "default": true, "name": "Speech quality (modal, neutral larynx, minimal AES narrowing)", "descriptors": [ "speech-quality-modal-neutral-larynx", "minimal-AES-narrowing" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_falsetto", "name": "Falsetto quality (thin folds, breathier than M2-modal)", "descriptors": [ "falsetto-quality-thin-fold-breathy", "reduced-vibratory-mass" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "high-falsetto" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_sob", "name": "Sob quality (low larynx + thin folds — darkened, muffled weeping)", "descriptors": [ "sob-quality-low-larynx-thin-fold", "darkened-weeping-warmth", "hollow-muted-grief", "lowered-larynx-cry-configuration" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "classical-trained" ], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "opera" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_oral_twang", "name": "Oral twang (AES narrowed for high-F2 brightness, velum closed)", "descriptors": [ "oral-twang-AES-narrowed-bright", "high-F2-brightness-projection" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "country", "andean", "cajun" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_nasal_twang", "name": "Nasal twang (AES narrowed + velar port open)", "descriptors": [ "nasal-twang-velar-port-open", "AES-narrowed-with-nasal-resonance" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "country", "flamenco", "beijing-opera" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_opera", "name": "Opera quality (low larynx + thick folds + AES narrowing + torso anchoring — singer-formant cluster ~2.3-3 kHz per Sundberg)", "descriptors": [ "opera-quality-low-larynx-anchored", "singer-formant-cluster-2_3-to-3-kHz" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "classical-trained" ], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "opera", "italian" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_belt", "name": "Belt quality (high larynx + thick folds + AES narrowing + head-neck anchoring)", "descriptors": [ "belt-quality-high-larynx-thick-fold", "head-neck-anchored-high-pressure" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "broadway", "gospel", "soul", "r&b", "ranchera" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_cry", "auto": false, "name": "Cry quality (thin folds + tilted thyroid, larynx higher than sob — small, sweet, plaintive)", "descriptors": [ "cry-quality-thin-fold-tilted-thyroid", "raised-larynx-small-volume", "sweet-plaintive-whimper-onset" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "contemporary-pop", "soul-ballad" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_onset_glottal", "auto": false, "name": "Glottal onset (firm TVF adduction, coup-de-glotte hard start)", "descriptors": [ "glottal-onset-firm-adduction", "hard-coup-de-glotte-start", "clean-pressed-attack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "rock-belt" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_onset_aspirate", "auto": false, "name": "Aspirate onset (breath before tone, /h/ start)", "descriptors": [ "aspirate-onset-breath-before-tone", "h-onset-soft-start", "breathy-attack" ], "match_tokens": [ "breathy", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "pop-ballad", "soul" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_onset_smooth_simultaneous", "auto": false, "name": "Smooth simultaneous onset (balanced airflow + adduction)", "descriptors": [ "smooth-simultaneous-onset", "balanced-airflow-adduction", "even-clean-start" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_tvf_thick_body", "auto": false, "name": "Thick true-fold body (heavy mechanism, full mass)", "descriptors": [ "thick-true-fold-body-mass", "heavy-mechanism-full-adduction", "rich-low-harmonic" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_tvf_thin_cover", "auto": false, "name": "Thin true-fold cover (light mechanism, reduced mass)", "descriptors": [ "thin-true-fold-cover", "light-mechanism-reduced-mass", "flute-clear-upper" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_tvf_stiff_creak", "auto": false, "name": "Stiff true-folds (creak / pulse-register anchor)", "descriptors": [ "stiff-true-fold-creak", "pulse-register-anchor", "low-creaky-onset" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_false_fold_retract", "auto": false, "name": "Retracted false folds (open, clean, laugh-posture)", "descriptors": [ "false-fold-retracted-open", "laugh-posture-clean", "constriction-released" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "clean-belt" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_false_fold_constrict_grit", "auto": false, "name": "Constricted false folds (grit / distortion overlay)", "descriptors": [ "false-fold-constricted-grit", "ventricular-distortion-overlay", "rasp-effect-on-core" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "rock", "metal", "blues-growl" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_speech_song", "surface": false, "name": "Speech-song spectrum position", "variants": [ { "id": "voice_pure_spoken_no_pitch", "name": "Pure spoken (no pitch organization)", "descriptors": [ "no-pitch-organization-speech", "speech-rhythm-only" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived" ] }, { "id": "voice_heightened_speech", "name": "Heightened speech (stylized intonation contours)", "descriptors": [ "heightened-speech-stylized-intonation", "theatrical-projection-no-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived" ] }, { "id": "voice_rhythmic_spoken_flow", "name": "Rhythmic spoken flow (no pitch target, rhythmic only)", "descriptors": [ "rhythmic-spoken-flow-no-pitch", "syncopated-speech-rhythm" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived" ], "canonical_tags": [ "hip-hop", "rap", "spoken-word" ] }, { "id": "voice_recitative_free_rhythm", "name": "Recitative (rhythmically free pitched speech)", "descriptors": [ "recitative-rhythmically-free-pitched-speech", "declamatory-free-rhythm" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "baroque", "opera" ] }, { "id": "voice_sprechgesang_notated", "name": "Sprechgesang (pitched speech-melody, song-leaning)", "descriptors": [ "notated-speech-melody", "pitch-carried-not-just-touched", "song-leaning-declamation", "sprechgesang-notated-approximate-pitch", "between-speech-and-song" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "modern-classical", "second-viennese-school", "wagnerian-declamation" ] }, { "id": "voice_ametrical_chant", "name": "Ametrical pitched chant (free-rhythm sustained tones)", "descriptors": [ "ametrical-pitched-chant-free-rhythm", "sustained-tones-free-rhythm" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "devotional", "sacred-traditional" ] }, { "id": "voice_metrical_chant", "name": "Metrical pitched chant (fixed-rhythm chant)", "descriptors": [ "metrical-pitched-chant-fixed-rhythm", "fixed-rhythm-chant-cycle" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "devotional", "sacred-traditional" ] }, { "id": "voice_syllabic_singing", "default": true, "name": "Syllabic singing (one note per syllable)", "descriptors": [ "one-note-per-syllable", "text-forward", "plain-direct-line", "syllabic-singing-one-note-per-syllable" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ] }, { "id": "voice_neumatic_singing", "name": "Neumatic singing (small note-groups per syllable)", "descriptors": [ "small-note-groups-per-syllable", "gently-florid", "text-still-legible", "neumatic-singing-small-groups-per-syllable" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ] }, { "id": "voice_melismatic_singing", "name": "Melismatic singing (long runs on one syllable)", "descriptors": [ "many-notes-per-syllable", "vowel-carried-runs", "florid-extended-line", "melismatic-singing-many-notes-per-syllable" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone", "melismatic" ] }, { "id": "voice_pure_vocalise", "name": "Pure vocalise (no text, vowel-only)", "descriptors": [ "pure-vocalise-no-text-vowel-only", "wordless-melodic-line" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ] }, { "id": "voice_non_lexical_vocable", "name": "Non-lexical vocables (meaningless syllables as music)", "descriptors": [ "meaningless-syllables-carrying-melody", "rhythm-forward-vocables", "consonant-attack-as-percussion", "non-lexical-vocable-rhythmic-syllables" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_sprechstimme_pitch_released", "auto": false, "name": "Sprechstimme (notated pitch touched then released, speech-dominant)", "descriptors": [ "pitch-touched-then-abandoned", "gliding-off-every-note", "speech-dominant-contour" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "second-viennese-school", "pierrot-lunaire", "expressionism-1912" ] }, { "id": "voice_toasting_deejay_chat", "auto": false, "name": "Toasting / deejay chat (pitched rhythmic chant over riddim)", "descriptors": [ "pitched-rhythmic-chat", "tonal-center-chanted-flow", "riddim-locked-delivery", "half-sung-half-spoken" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "jamaican-sound-system", "reggae", "dancehall", "1970s-onward" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_config", "surface": false, "name": "Ensemble arrangement", "variants": [ { "id": "voice_ensemble_solo_unaccompanied", "default": true, "name": "Solo unaccompanied", "descriptors": [ "solo-unaccompanied" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "lead", "lead-melody" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_solo_over_drone", "name": "Solo over instrumental drone", "descriptors": [ "solo-over-instrumental-drone" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "lead", "lead-melody", "drone-foundation" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_solo_over_choral_drone", "name": "Solo over vocal-choral drone", "descriptors": [ "solo-over-vocal-choral-drone" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "lead", "lead-melody", "drone-foundation" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tibetan-ritual", "georgian-three-voice-polyphony" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_solo_accompanied", "name": "Solo with instrumental accompaniment", "descriptors": [ "solo-with-instrumental-accompaniment" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "lead", "lead-melody" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_parallel_thirds", "name": "Parallel-thirds two-voice", "descriptors": [ "parallel-thirds-two-voice" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable" ], "canonical_tags": [ "andean", "appalachian", "doo-wop" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_parallel_fifths", "name": "Parallel-fifths two-voice", "descriptors": [ "parallel-fifths-two-voice" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_organum_4_5_8", "name": "Organum parallel-fourth-fifth-octave", "descriptors": [ "parallel-fourth-fifth-octave-organum" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable", "sacred-traditional" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_drone_plus_lead", "name": "Drone-plus-lead two-voice", "descriptors": [ "drone-plus-lead-two-voice" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "drone-foundation" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_hocket_two_voice", "name": "Interlocked hocket two-voice", "descriptors": [ "interlocked-hocket-two-voice" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "inuit-throat-singing", "aka-baka-polyphony" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_three_voice_polyphony", "name": "Three-voice polyphony (interweaving independent trio)", "descriptors": [ "three-independent-lines", "interweaving-trio-texture", "close-interval-friction", "cadence-convergence", "three-voice-polyphony-regional-canonical" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable", "ensemble" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sardinian-polyphony", "georgian-three-voice-polyphony", "corsican-paghjella", "bulgarian-diaphonic-womens", "georgian-trio", "balkan" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_four_plus_polyphony", "name": "Four-plus-voice polyphony (full-choir woven counterpoint)", "descriptors": [ "four-plus-independent-lines", "overlapping-staggered-entries", "woven-counterpoint", "full-choir-density", "four-and-more-voice-polyphony" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable", "ensemble" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sardinian-polyphony", "aka-baka-polyphony", "renaissance-polyphony", "sacred-choral" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_antiphonal_double_choir", "name": "Antiphonal double-choir (spatially opposed groups trading phrases)", "descriptors": [ "two-spatially-opposed-choirs", "phrase-trading-alternation", "echo-answer-effect", "massed-tutti-convergence", "antiphonal-double-choir-alternating" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable", "ensemble" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sacred-traditional", "venetian-polychoral", "cori-spezzati" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_call_response_leader_group", "name": "Single-leader call + group-response", "descriptors": [ "single-leader-group-response" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "call-response" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gospel", "worksong", "sub-saharan-tradition" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_responsorial_cantor", "name": "Responsorial cantor-congregation", "descriptors": [ "responsorial-cantor-congregation" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "call-response", "sacred-traditional" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_heterophonic", "name": "Heterophonic ensemble (one melody, individually varied — village-choir blur)", "descriptors": [ "same-melody-all-voices", "individual-ornament-divergence", "blurred-unison-shimmer", "non-aligned-onsets", "heterophonic-same-melody-variant-ornament" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ensemble" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gagaku", "gamelan", "middle-eastern", "village-choir", "gaelic-psalm", "middle-eastern-takht" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_hocket_distribution", "name": "Hocket interlocked single-note distribution across voices", "descriptors": [ "hocket-interlocked-single-note-distribution" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ensemble" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gamelan-vocal", "aka-baka-polyphony" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_dense_cluster_polyphony", "name": "Dense cluster polyphony (deliberate semitone/sub-semitone clusters)", "descriptors": [ "dense-cluster-polyphony-deliberate-second-seventh-ninth" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ensemble", "choir-blendable" ], "canonical_tags": [ "modernist-cluster", "bulgarian-diaphonic-womens" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_polyrhythmic_layered", "name": "Polyrhythmic vocal layering (independent cycles per voice)", "descriptors": [ "polyrhythmic-vocal-layering-independent-cycles" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ensemble" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sub-saharan-tradition", "aka-baka-polyphony" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_gang_vocal_unison", "name": "Gang-vocal unison-octave (multiple performers, deliberate non-tuned overlap)", "descriptors": [ "gang-vocal-unison-octave-non-tuned-overlap" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ensemble", "shouted" ], "canonical_tags": [ "hardcore", "punk" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_homophonic_block", "auto": false, "name": "Homophonic block-chord (all voices in one rhythm, chord-stacked)", "descriptors": [ "all-voices-same-rhythm", "block-chord-motion", "text-synchronized-declamation", "hymn-chorale-solidity" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable", "ensemble" ], "canonical_tags": [ "lutheran-chorale", "hymnody", "barbershop", "doo-wop" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_round_canon", "auto": false, "name": "Round / canon (one melody at staggered entries)", "descriptors": [ "staggered-identical-entries", "self-overlapping-melody", "imitative-interlock", "cyclic-perpetual-texture" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable", "ensemble" ], "canonical_tags": [ "medieval-rota", "english-catch", "campfire-round" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_system", "surface": false, "name": "Ornament-system (cross-cultural ornament catalog)", "variants": [ { "id": "voice_ornament_none", "default": true, "name": "No specific ornament system", "descriptors": [ "no-specific-ornament-system" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_carnatic_gamaka", "name": "Carnatic gamaka catalog (kampita 1-3 semitone target, nokku above-press, jaaru glide, sphurita double-touch, ravai higher-touch, kandippu implied, andolanam slow-oscillation)", "descriptors": [ "carnatic-gamaka-kampita-nokku-jaaru-sphurita" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend", "ornamented", "shruti-inflected" ], "canonical_tags": [ "south-asian", "classical", "carnatic" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_hindustani_meend_gamak", "name": "Hindustani meend-gamak catalog (meend continuous-glide >100ms, gamak forceful-wide 200+cent oscillation, khatka cluster-grace, murki rapid-3-note-cluster ~150ms, zamzama chained-murki, krintan hammered-grace, andolan slow 100-cent oscillation)", "descriptors": [ "hindustani-meend-gamak-khatka-murki-zamzama-krintan-andolan" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend", "ornamented", "shruti-inflected" ], "canonical_tags": [ "south-asian", "classical", "hindustani" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_persian_tahrir", "name": "Persian tahrir mechanics (tekye single glottal-jump M1-M2 unit, bolboli extended chain, zinat pattern, multi-tekye long-interval pattern)", "descriptors": [ "persian-tahrir-tekye-bolboli-zinat" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented" ], "canonical_tags": [ "persian", "middle-eastern", "classical" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_arab_maqam_mawwal", "name": "Arab mawwāl + maqam ornament rules (improvised melismatic pre-metric, layali vocable, maqam modulation jins-change mid-phrase)", "descriptors": [ "arab-mawwal-layali-maqam-modulation" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend", "ornamented" ], "canonical_tags": [ "arabic", "middle-eastern", "classical" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_quranic_tajwid", "name": "Quranic tajwid pitch-and-duration rules (tahqiq slow-melismatic, tarteel measured, tadwir medium-tempo, hadr fast, madd vowel-elongation 2-4-6 counts, qalqalah bounce-articulation, ghunnah nasalization)", "descriptors": [ "quranic-tajwid-tahqiq-tarteel-madd-qalqalah-ghunnah" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "devotional", "sacred-traditional" ], "canonical_tags": [ "arabic", "middle-eastern", "devotional" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_bel_canto", "name": "Bel canto operatic ornaments (appoggiatura leaning-note-on-beat, mordente rapid-neighbor-note, gruppetto turn-figure, trillo rapid-pitch-reiteration 2-12 Hz, portamento laryngeal-glide, messa-di-voce crescendo-decrescendo-sustained, coloratura rapid-melismatic)", "descriptors": [ "bel-canto-appoggiatura-mordente-gruppetto-trillo-portamento-coloratura" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented", "classical-trained" ], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "italian", "opera" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_flamenco_cante_jondo", "name": "Flamenco cante jondo (quejío sung-cry-onset, ayeo introductory-vocable, temple warm-up, melisma cante-jondo-extended, microtonal-flattening 30-60 cents, afilla roughened-voice, quiebro semitone-vibrato, tercio verse-melodic-unit)", "descriptors": [ "flamenco-quejio-ayeo-temple-afilla-quiebro-tercio" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented", "microtonal-bend" ], "canonical_tags": [ "flamenco", "iberian" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_pansori_sigimsae", "name": "Pansori sigimsae (yoseong pitch-oscillation, toeseong descending-off-glide, chuseong ascending-into-slide, jeonseong grace-note-attack, nonghyeon microtonal-bend, seongeum rough-pressed-target-timbre)", "descriptors": [ "pansori-yoseong-toeseong-chuseong-jeonseong-nonghyeon-seongeum" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented" ], "canonical_tags": [ "korean", "east-asian" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_jingju_role", "name": "Jingju role-type mechanism (laosheng da-sang chest-modal, xiaosheng register-break stylized, qingyi xiao-sang reinforced-falsetto, jing pressed-loud — larynx-elevated singer-formant absent per Sundberg 2012)", "descriptors": [ "jingju-da-sang-xiao-sang-larynx-elevated-singer-formant-absent" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented" ], "canonical_tags": [ "chinese-opera", "east-asian", "beijing-opera" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_yueju_cantonese", "name": "Cantonese yueju opera (pinghou flat-throat-modal, zihou reinforced-falsetto, dahou chest-high-pitch-rough)", "descriptors": [ "yueju-pinghou-zihou-dahou" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented" ], "canonical_tags": [ "cantonese-opera", "east-asian" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_sub_saharan_polyphonic", "name": "Sub-Saharan vocal ornament (aka yodel-mechanism-M1-M2 alternation, mande griot melisma extended, yoruba melisma tone-language-coupled, xhosa eefing rhythmic-percussion-vocal)", "descriptors": [ "sub-saharan-aka-mande-yoruba-xhosa-ornament" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sub-saharan-tradition", "griot-tradition", "aka-baka-polyphony" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_sami_yoik", "name": "Sami yoik (luohti circular-form, vocable non-lexical-repetition, glissando-vibrato figure, throaty-rumble onset, high-pitched-cry)", "descriptors": [ "sami-yoik-luohti-vocable-glissando-vibrato" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sami", "arctic" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_polynesian_falsetto", "name": "Polynesian (leo kiekie falsetto-break-octave-leap, glottal-stop rhythmic-okina, parallel-thirds himene-tarava)", "descriptors": [ "polynesian-leo-kiekie-okina-himene-tarava" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "pacific", "polynesian-himene-tarava" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_andean_huayno", "name": "Andean huayno/yaravi (falsetto-break cabeza-voice high-register, parallel-thirds quechua-aymara, microtonal-flatten andean-mode-third)", "descriptors": [ "andean-cabeza-voice-quechua-aymara-third-flatten" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "andean", "south-american" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_connemara_unaccompanied", "name": "Sean-nós ornament catalog (Connemara-style roll/casadh grace-clusters, melismatic free-rhythm line, glottal separation, nasal decoration)", "descriptors": [ "grace-note-cluster-rolls", "melismatic-free-rhythm", "glottal-stop-separation", "nasal-resonance-decoration", "connemara-unaccompanied-melismatic-grace-nasal" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "celtic", "irish-traditional", "sean-nos", "irish", "connemara", "gaelic" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_dhrupad_meend_andolan", "name": "Dhrupad meend + andolan (austere extended-glide + slow oscillation, pakhawaj-paired)", "descriptors": [ "dhrupad-meend-andolan-austere-extended-glide" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented", "devotional" ], "canonical_tags": [ "hindustani", "classical", "south-asian" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_fado_voltinha", "auto": false, "name": "Fado voltinha catalog (voltinha small-turn figures, phrase-end melisma, rubato note-stretching, mordent-glide inflection)", "descriptors": [ "voltinha-turn-figures", "phrase-end-melisma", "rubato-stretched-line", "mordent-glide-inflected" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented", "melismatic", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "fado", "portuguese", "lisbon" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_gospel_runs", "auto": false, "name": "Gospel runs-and-riffs catalog (pentatonic run-cascade, chained riff-turns, trap-door descending run, blue-third melisma, squall accent)", "descriptors": [ "pentatonic-run-cascades", "chained-riff-turns", "trap-door-descending-run", "blue-third-inflected-melisma" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented", "melismatic", "blues-inflected", "call-response" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gospel", "pentecostal", "soul", "r-and-b" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_organization", "surface": false, "name": "Pitch organization (tuning + glide system)", "variants": [ { "id": "voice_pitch_equal_tempered_12", "default": true, "name": "Equal-tempered 12-tone fixed-pitch", "descriptors": [ "equal-tempered-12-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_just_intonation", "name": "Just intonation fixed-pitch (5-limit, beatless ratio-lock)", "descriptors": [ "just-ratio-locked", "beatless-pure-thirds", "chordal-ring-lock", "overtone-fused", "just-intonation-5-limit-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "period-performance" ], "canonical_tags": [ "barbershop", "early-music", "a-cappella" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_meantone_quarter_comma", "name": "Quarter-comma meantone (pure thirds, unequal key colors)", "descriptors": [ "pure-major-thirds", "narrowed-fifths", "calm-beatless-triads", "unequal-key-color", "quarter-comma-meantone-canonical-renaissance-early-baroque" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "period-performance", "classical-trained" ], "canonical_tags": [ "renaissance", "early-baroque", "period-performance" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_pythagorean", "name": "Pythagorean fifth-stacked (pure fifths, bright wide thirds)", "descriptors": [ "pure-fifth-stacked", "wide-bright-thirds", "hollow-open-fifth-ring", "keen-narrow-semitones", "pythagorean-fifth-stacked-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sacred-traditional", "georgian-three-voice-polyphony", "medieval", "organum", "early-music" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_carnatic_22_shruti", "name": "Carnatic 22-shruti microtonal fixed-pitch", "descriptors": [ "carnatic-22-shruti-microtonal-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "shruti-inflected" ], "canonical_tags": [ "south-asian", "classical", "carnatic" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_arab_24_quartertone", "name": "Arab 24-quartertone maqam fixed-pitch", "descriptors": [ "arab-24-quartertone-maqam-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend" ], "canonical_tags": [ "arabic", "middle-eastern", "classical" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_persian_dastgah", "name": "Persian 17-dastgah koron-sori fixed-pitch", "descriptors": [ "persian-17-dastgah-koron-sori-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend" ], "canonical_tags": [ "persian", "middle-eastern", "classical" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_turkish_makam_53_comma", "name": "Turkish 53-comma makam fixed-pitch", "descriptors": [ "turkish-53-comma-makam-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend" ], "canonical_tags": [ "turkish", "middle-eastern" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_pelog_7", "name": "Pelog seven-tone (uneven wide-narrow steps, gamelan-matched)", "descriptors": [ "pelog-uneven-steps", "alternating-wide-narrow-intervals", "gamelan-matched-tuning", "dark-plaintive-color", "pelog-7-tone-indonesian-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gamelan", "indonesian", "javanese", "balinese" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_slendro_5", "name": "Slendro five-tone (near-equidistant, floating tonality)", "descriptors": [ "slendro-near-equidistant", "roughly-240-cent-steps", "floating-ambiguous-tonality", "gamelan-matched-tuning", "slendro-5-tone-indonesian-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gamelan", "indonesian", "javanese" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_thai_7_equal_step", "name": "Thai seven-equal (171-cent even steps, blurred thirds)", "descriptors": [ "seven-equal-171-cent-steps", "evenly-spaced-interval-blur", "neither-major-nor-minor-thirds", "thai-7-equal-step-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "thai", "southeast-asian", "thai-classical", "piphat-mahori" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_ethiopian_qenet", "name": "Ethiopian qenet pentatonic modes (tizita, bati, ambassel, anchihoye)", "descriptors": [ "qenet-pentatonic-modes", "tizita-bati-ambassel-anchihoye", "uneven-pentatonic-gaps", "krar-masinqo-matched", "ethiopian-qenet-tetrachord-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "ethiopian", "east-african", "eritrean", "azmari" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_microtonal_glide_continuous", "name": "Microtonal continuous-glide laryngeal pitch", "descriptors": [ "microtonal-continuous-glide-laryngeal" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_sub_semitone_third_glide", "name": "Sub-semitone descending-glide on third scale degree (30-60 cents flatten)", "descriptors": [ "sub-semitone-descending-glide-third-degree", "microtonal-flattening-30-60-cents" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend", "blues-derived", "blues-inflected" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_scoop_up_300_cents", "name": "Scoop-up onset ~300 cents portamento", "descriptors": [ "scoop-up-300-cents-portamento-onset" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_fall_off_400_cents", "name": "Fall-off release ~400 cents portamento", "descriptors": [ "fall-off-400-cents-portamento-release" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_drone_overtone_harmonic_series", "name": "Drone-organized harmonic-series overtone selection", "descriptors": [ "drone-organized-harmonic-series-overtone-selection" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "drone-foundation", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tuvan", "mongolian", "overtone-tradition" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_tonal_language_constrained", "name": "Tonal-language syllable-tone-locked melodic contour", "descriptors": [ "tonal-language-syllable-tone-locked-melody" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "mandarin", "cantonese", "yoruba", "vietnamese", "thai" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_vedic_three_tone", "name": "Vedic three-tone udatta-anudatta-svarita pitch system", "descriptors": [ "vedic-udatta-anudatta-svarita-three-tone-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "devotional", "sacred-traditional" ], "canonical_tags": [ "south-asian", "vedic-chant" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_byzantine_72_moria", "auto": false, "name": "Byzantine 72-moria octoechos (unequal diatonic + chromatic genera)", "descriptors": [ "byzantine-72-moria-division", "unequal-diatonic-steps", "hard-chromatic-augmented-color", "ison-drone-referenced" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "devotional", "sacred-traditional", "drone-foundation" ], "canonical_tags": [ "byzantine-chant", "greek-orthodox", "medieval-modal" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_georgian_non_tempered", "auto": false, "name": "Georgian non-tempered triadic (pure-fifth anchored, neutral thirds)", "descriptors": [ "pure-fifth-anchored-chords", "neutral-third-shading", "near-equidistant-seconds", "non-tempered-triadic-lock" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend", "choir-blendable" ], "canonical_tags": [ "georgian", "caucasus", "polyphonic-folk-chant" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_chain", "surface": false, "name": "Processing chain (ordered, recording-era constitutive)", "variants": [ { "id": "voice_processing_unprocessed", "default": true, "name": "Unprocessed natural-acoustic", "descriptors": [ "unprocessed-natural-acoustic" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_retune_0ms_hard_correction", "name": "Pitch-correction retune-speed 0ms hard-correction (Antares-canonical Auto-Tune-Effect)", "descriptors": [ "retune-speed-0ms-hard-correction-robot-effect" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "hip-hop", "rap", "modern-pop" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_retune_10_50ms_natural", "name": "Pitch-correction retune-speed 10-50ms natural-correction (Antares-canonical natural range)", "descriptors": [ "retune-speed-10-50ms-natural-correction-antares-canonical" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "modern-pop", "r&b", "commercial" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_retune_50_100ms_subtle", "name": "Pitch-correction retune-speed 50-100ms subtle-nudge (producer-convention)", "descriptors": [ "retune-speed-50-100ms-subtle-nudge-producer-convention" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_melodyne_microtuned", "name": "Melodyne note-by-note graphical microtuning", "descriptors": [ "melodyne-graphical-note-by-note-microtuned" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_vocoder_8_band", "name": "Vocoder 8-band classic resolution", "descriptors": [ "vocoder-8-band-classic" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "electronic", "1970s", "1980s" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_vocoder_16_band", "name": "Vocoder 16-band broadband", "descriptors": [ "vocoder-16-band-broadband" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "electronic" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_vocoder_32_band_carrier_saw", "name": "Vocoder 32-band high-resolution sawtooth-carrier", "descriptors": [ "vocoder-32-band-high-resolution-saw-carrier" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "electronic" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_talkbox", "name": "Talkbox (mouth-as-resonator electric-carrier chain)", "descriptors": [ "talkbox-mouth-resonator-electric-carrier" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "funk", "1970s", "1980s" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_formant_shifter_up_200_cents", "name": "Formant shifter +200 cents (chipmunk timbre)", "descriptors": [ "formant-shifter-up-200-cents-chipmunk" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_formant_shifter_down_300_cents", "name": "Formant shifter -300 cents (gravel timbre)", "descriptors": [ "formant-shifter-down-300-cents-gravel" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_harmonizer_diatonic_locked", "name": "Harmonizer scale-locked diatonic stack", "descriptors": [ "harmonizer-scale-locked-diatonic-stack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_harmonizer_ai_trained_stack", "name": "AI-trained harmonizer stack (timbre-matched choir-of-self)", "descriptors": [ "ai-timbre-matched-harmony-stack", "choir-of-self-realistic-voices", "phrase-tracked-generated-harmonies", "harmonizer-ai-trained-stack-mid-2020s" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "modern-pop", "2020s", "mid-2020s" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_telephone_eq_300_3000", "name": "Telephone-EQ 300-3000 Hz bandwidth filter", "descriptors": [ "telephone-eq-300-3000hz-bandwidth-filter" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_tube_saturation", "name": "Tube saturation soft-overdrive on voice", "descriptors": [ "tube-saturation-soft-overdrive-voice" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "vintage" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_tape_saturation", "name": "Tape saturation harmonic-thicken on voice", "descriptors": [ "tape-saturation-harmonic-thicken-voice" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "vintage" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_bitcrusher", "name": "Bit-crusher aliasing distortion on voice", "descriptors": [ "bitcrusher-aliasing-distortion-voice" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_plate_reverb_medium", "name": "Plate reverb medium-decay (vocal classic)", "descriptors": [ "plate-reverb-medium-decay-vocal-classic" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "vintage", "studio" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_hall_reverb_long", "name": "Hall reverb long-decay cinematic", "descriptors": [ "hall-reverb-long-decay-cinematic" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_gated_reverb", "name": "Gated reverb truncated-decay", "descriptors": [ "gated-reverb-truncated-decay" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1980s" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_shimmer_reverb_octave_up", "name": "Shimmer reverb octave-up tail", "descriptors": [ "shimmer-reverb-octave-up-tail" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_lo_fi_narrow_AM", "name": "Lo-fi narrow-band AM-radio filter", "descriptors": [ "lo-fi-narrow-band-AM-radio-filter" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_stutter_edit", "name": "Stutter-edit cut-as-instrument", "descriptors": [ "stutter-edit-cut-as-instrument" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "electronic", "idm" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_multiband_aggressive_broadcast", "name": "Multiband compression aggressive-broadcast (dense forward loudness, no dynamic air)", "descriptors": [ "dense-forward-loudness", "band-split-leveled-every-syllable", "no-dynamic-air", "multiband-compression-aggressive-broadcast-post-2010" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "modern-pop", "commercial", "post-2010", "commercial-pop-radio" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_multiband_transparent_master", "name": "Multiband compression transparent-master", "descriptors": [ "multiband-compression-transparent-master" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_sidechain_ducked_pump", "auto": false, "name": "Sidechain-ducked pumping (vocal keyed to the kick, rhythmic swell-back)", "descriptors": [ "sidechain-ducked-to-kick", "rhythmic-pump-swell", "beat-locked-level-breathing" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "2010s", "edm", "future-bass" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_reverse_reverb_preswell", "auto": false, "name": "Reverse-reverb pre-swell (reversed tail rising into the word onset)", "descriptors": [ "reversed-tail-pre-swell", "rising-into-onset", "ghost-inhale-before-word" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1960s-tape-flip", "dream-pop", "trap" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_megaphone_bullhorn", "auto": false, "name": "Megaphone / bullhorn (horn-loaded midrange honk, peaky mechanical cut)", "descriptors": [ "horn-loaded-midrange-honk", "peaky-resonant-cut", "paper-cone-rasp" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1920s", "pre-electric-crooner", "tom-waits" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_screwed_pitch_down_4_8_semitones", "auto": false, "name": "Screwed pitch-down (-4 to -8 semitones, slowed tape-speed drawl)", "descriptors": [ "pitched-down-4-8-semitones", "slowed-tape-speed-drawl", "syrup-slow-smeared" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1990s", "chopped-and-screwed", "houston-hip-hop" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_tape_delay_throw_phrase_end", "auto": false, "name": "Tape-delay throw (send opened on the phrase-end word, regenerating repeats)", "descriptors": [ "delay-throw-phrase-end-send", "regenerating-tape-repeats", "last-word-trailing-into-space" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "dub", "reggae", "modern-pop-mixing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_spring_reverb_dub_send", "auto": false, "name": "Spring reverb (boingy metallic drip-tail, dub-console send)", "descriptors": [ "spring-reverb-metallic-drip", "boingy-flutter-tail", "dub-console-send" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1970s", "dub", "reggae" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_slapback_tape_echo_80_140ms", "auto": false, "name": "Slapback tape echo (single 80-140ms repeat, no regeneration)", "descriptors": [ "slapback-single-repeat-80-140ms", "tape-echo-no-regeneration", "doubled-attack-thickened" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1950s", "sun-records", "rockabilly" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_stack", "surface": false, "name": "Multi-track / stack-as-instrument", "variants": [ { "id": "voice_multitrack_single_lead", "default": true, "name": "Single-lead single-track (no stacking)", "descriptors": [ "single-lead-single-track-no-stacking" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "lead", "lead-melody" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_octave_double_self", "name": "Single-performer octave-doubled stack", "descriptors": [ "single-performer-octave-doubled-stack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "doubled" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_unison_double_take", "name": "Single-performer unison-double recorded-take", "descriptors": [ "single-performer-unison-double-recorded-take" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "doubled" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_3_part_third_fifth", "name": "Lead-plus-third-fifth 3-part harmony stack", "descriptors": [ "lead-plus-third-fifth-harmony-stack-3-part" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_5_part_cluster", "name": "Lead-plus-dense-cluster 5-part stack", "descriptors": [ "lead-plus-dense-cluster-5-part-stack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_polychordal_stack", "name": "Polychordal stack (major-seven-nine-eleven)", "descriptors": [ "polychordal-stack-major-seven-nine-eleven" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_formant_shifted_double_stereo", "name": "Formant-shifted-double pitch-locked stereo-width", "descriptors": [ "formant-shifted-double-pitch-locked-stereo-width" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_chopped_sample_rhythmic_bed", "name": "Chopped-vocal-sample rhythmic-bed", "descriptors": [ "chopped-vocal-sample-rhythmic-bed" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_granular_texture", "name": "Granular-vocal texture time-stretched", "descriptors": [ "granular-vocal-texture-time-stretched" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_pitched_sample_melodic_bed", "name": "Pitched vocal-sample melodic-bed", "descriptors": [ "pitched-vocal-sample-melodic-bed" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_stab_percussive_trigger", "name": "Vocal-stab percussive-sample trigger", "descriptors": [ "vocal-stab-percussive-sample-trigger" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_mid_1960s_double_tracking_era", "name": "ADT / tape-offset unison double (phasey detimed halo)", "descriptors": [ "tape-offset-detimed-unison", "phasey-comb-filter-halo", "widened-smeared-center", "two-pass-double-blur", "mid-1960s-double-tracking-era-stack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1960s", "vintage", "beatles-era", "abbey-road-adt" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_late_1970s_thirds_fifths_octaves", "name": "Self-blended thirds-fifths-octaves overdub choir (tight-comped silk)", "descriptors": [ "thirds-fifths-octaves-voicing", "self-blended-overdub-choir", "tight-comped-attack-lock", "silken-unified-timbre", "late-1970s-thirds-fifths-octaves-stack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1970s", "vintage", "soft-rock", "disco", "elo-bee-gees-era" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_late_1980s_reverb_saturated_bus", "name": "Massed bus-glued stack drowned in gated/plate reverb (arena-scale wash)", "descriptors": [ "massed-bus-glued-blend", "gated-plate-reverb-drowned", "arena-scale-wash", "voices-smeared-into-one", "late-1980s-reverb-saturated-bus-stack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1980s", "arena-rock", "power-ballad" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_2000s_elastic_pitch_edited", "name": "Surgically time-and-pitch-aligned comp stack (zero-flam edit lock)", "descriptors": [ "elastic-pitch-time-snapped", "zero-flam-onset-lock", "airbrushed-uniform-takes", "grid-quantized-phrasing", "2000s-onward-elastic-pitch-edited-stack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "2000s", "modern-pop", "pro-tools-era", "commercial-pop-r-and-b" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_2010s_melodyne_microtuned", "name": "Cent-locked microtuned harmony stack (beatless glassy interval tuning)", "descriptors": [ "note-by-note-cent-locked-stack", "beatless-interval-tuning", "glassy-synthetic-sheen", "zero-drift-harmony-grid", "2010s-onward-melodyne-microtuned-stack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "2010s", "modern-pop", "melodyne-era", "maximalist-pop" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_tape_loop_choir_wall", "auto": false, "name": "Massed tape-loop choir wall (sustained vowel loops, fader-played)", "descriptors": [ "massed-loop-choir-wall", "sustained-vowel-chord-pads", "fader-swelled-voices", "hazy-endless-sustain" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1970s", "art-pop", "ambient" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_whisper_double_lead", "auto": false, "name": "Whisper-double over lead (unvoiced intimacy layer)", "descriptors": [ "unvoiced-whisper-shadow", "breath-texture-halo", "close-mic-intimacy-layer" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "doubled" ], "canonical_tags": [ "bedroom-pop", "dream-pop", "r-and-b" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_adlib_response_lane", "auto": false, "name": "Ad-lib / echo-word response lane (punctuating second comp track)", "descriptors": [ "echo-word-punctuation", "off-lead-interjection-lane", "yeah-uh-tag-accents" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "hip-hop", "trap", "dancehall" ] } ] } ], "_ownParts": [ { "id": "voice_register", "surface": false, "name": "Register", "variants": [ { "id": "chest_voice", "default": true, "surface": false, "name": "Chest (M1)", "descriptors": [ "thick", "grounded", "speech-derived" ], "match_tokens": [ "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "pop", "rock", "country", "blues", "jazz", "gospel", "r&b", "soul", "folk", "classical-western", "modern-music" ] }, { "id": "mix_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Mix / blended", "descriptors": [ "balanced", "sustained", "bridging" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ] }, { "id": "head_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Head (M2)", "descriptors": [ "light", "ringing", "soaring" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ] }, { "id": "falsetto", "name": "Falsetto", "descriptors": [ "airy", "hooty", "gentle" ], "match_tokens": [ "high-falsetto", "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "whistle_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Whistle (M3)", "descriptors": [ "piercing", "thin", "ornamental" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ] }, { "id": "vocal_fry", "name": "Vocal fry (M0)", "descriptors": [ "vocal-fry", "low", "croaky" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ] }, { "id": "kargyraa_register", "surface": false, "name": "Kargyraa (Tuvan low-register throat-singing, subharmonic)", "descriptors": [ "kargyraa", "subharmonic", "two-octaves-below", "ventricular-vibration" ], "match_tokens": [ "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tuvan", "mongolian", "overtone-tradition" ] }, { "id": "sygyt_register", "surface": false, "name": "Sygyt (Tuvan whistle-overtone)", "descriptors": [ "sygyt", "tuvan-whistle", "high-overtone-projection", "isolated-harmonic" ], "match_tokens": [ "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tuvan", "mongolian", "overtone-tradition" ] }, { "id": "extended_whistle_register", "surface": false, "name": "Extended whistle (above coloratura, flute-like)", "descriptors": [ "extended-whistle", "above-c6", "flute-like", "pop-extended-range" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "pop", "r&b" ] }, { "id": "strohbass_register", "auto": false, "name": "Strohbass (sustained pitched fry, sub-bass pedal)", "descriptors": [ "strohbass", "sustained-pitched-fry", "sub-bass-rattle", "choral-pedal-tone" ], "match_tokens": [ "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "russian-orthodox-choral", "oktavist", "barbershop", "basso-profondo" ] }, { "id": "reinforced_falsetto", "auto": false, "name": "Reinforced falsetto (fuller M2, supported not breathy)", "descriptors": [ "reinforced-falsetto", "fuller-supported-m2", "less-air-than-pure-falsetto" ], "match_tokens": [ "high-falsetto", "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "pop", "r&b", "musical-theater" ] }, { "id": "countertenor_register", "auto": false, "name": "Countertenor (developed head/falsetto as primary range)", "descriptors": [ "countertenor-developed-head", "male-alto-to-soprano-range", "trained-m2-primary" ], "match_tokens": [ "high-falsetto", "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "baroque", "early-music", "classical" ] }, { "id": "leggiero_head_coloratura", "auto": false, "name": "Leggiero head (light agile coloratura)", "descriptors": [ "leggiero-light-head", "agile-thin-fold-coloratura", "high-flexible-runs" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "bel-canto", "coloratura", "classical" ] }, { "id": "heavy_m1_belt_register", "auto": false, "name": "Heavy-mechanism belt (M1 carried high, chest-dominant)", "descriptors": [ "heavy-m1-carried-high", "chest-dominant-belt-register", "thick-fold-up-high" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "broadway-belt", "gospel", "soul" ] }, { "id": "oktavist_sub_bass_register", "auto": false, "name": "Oktavist sub-bass (full-voiced extended low modal)", "descriptors": [ "oktavist-modal-sub-bass", "profondo-extended-low-modal", "full-voiced-not-fried-low" ], "match_tokens": [ "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "russian-orthodox-choral", "basso-profondo", "barbershop" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_quality", "surface": false, "name": "Quality / setting", "variants": [ { "id": "chest_mix_belt_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Chest-mix belt (Broadway / contemporary musical theater)", "descriptors": [ "chest-mix-belt", "register-blended-up", "sustained-projection" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "broadway", "contemporary-musical-theater", "mandopop", "eurovision", "scandi-pop", "bubblegum-pop", "hi-nrg", "italo-dance", "italo-house", "eurodance", "commercial-pop-belt" ] }, { "id": "full_chest_belt_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Full-chest belt (gospel / soul / R&B / Mexican ranchera / Latin Caribbean dance-belted)", "descriptors": [ "full-chest-belt", "thyroarytenoid-dominant", "belt-projection" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gospel-belt", "soul-belt", "r&b-belt", "ranchera", "mariachi", "mexican-belt", "son-cubano", "mambo", "bolero", "cha-cha", "bachata", "cumbia", "kompa", "vallenato" ] }, { "id": "twang_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Twang / nasal-forward", "descriptors": [ "forward-resonance", "nasal", "cutting" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "andean", "huayno", "llanero", "joropo", "cajun", "cajun-french" ] }, { "id": "lowered_larynx_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Lowered-larynx voice", "descriptors": [ "larynx-lowered", "dark-color-position", "glottal-articulation" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "country-male", "classic-rock-male", "doom", "sludge", "shoegaze", "early-doom", "70s-heavy" ] }, { "id": "speech_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Speech-quality", "descriptors": [ "conversational", "natural", "present" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "opera_voice", "default": true, "surface": false, "name": "Opera / classical", "descriptors": [ "covered", "ringing", "vibrato-rich" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "aspirated_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Aspirated voice (deliberate breath as expression)", "descriptors": [ "breath-veiled-tone", "air-around-the-note", "intimate-close-hush", "intimate-aspirated" ], "match_tokens": [ "breath-heavy", "aspirated", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "bossa-nova-vocal", "cool-jazz-vocal", "samba", "bossa", "tropicalia", "mpb" ] }, { "id": "incomplete_closure_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Incomplete-closure voice (untrained breath leak)", "descriptors": [ "incomplete-closure-resting", "soft-onset", "untrained-fragile", "child-related" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "untrained-folk", "singer-songwriter", "folk-revival", "britfolk", "confessional" ] }, { "id": "fry_bleed_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Fry-bleed voice (vocal fry leaking into modal)", "descriptors": [ "fry-bleed", "creak-onset", "low-pulse-irregular" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "trumpet-singer-jazz" ] }, { "id": "pressed_phonation_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Pressed phonation (high subglottal pressure + supraglottal constriction)", "descriptors": [ "pressed", "supraglottal-constricted", "strain-audible" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "blue-eyed-soul", "rock-belt", "beijing-opera", "cantonese-opera", "jingju", "chinese-opera" ] }, { "id": "false_fold_voice", "surface": false, "name": "False-fold voice (ventricular phonation)", "descriptors": [ "false-fold-engaged", "ventricular-phonation", "sub-fundamental-buzz" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "kargyraa", "death-growl", "black-metal", "shriek", "canto-tenore", "sardinian-polyphony", "sardinian", "cantu", "tuvan", "khoomei", "throat-singing" ] }, { "id": "breath_admixed_voice", "surface": false, "name": 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crack)", "descriptors": [ "register-break-ornamental", "voluntary-cracking" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "country-female", "country-male", "bluegrass", "classic-honky-tonk", "old-time" ] }, { "id": "blues_shouter_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Blues shouter / declamatory belted", "descriptors": [ "blues-shouter", "shouted", "gospel-rooted" ], "match_tokens": [ "blues-derived", "blues-inflected", "speech-derived" ], "canonical_tags": [ "r&b", "soul", "kansas-city", "swing-blues", "jump-blues", "territory-band", "field-holler", "arhoolie", "holler", "cuban-rumba", "guaguanco", "columbia", "yambu" ] }, { "id": "crooner_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Crooner (close-mic intimate, low-dynamic)", "descriptors": [ "close-mic-intimate", "low-dynamic-croon", "smooth-sustained-legato", "microphone-amplification-dependent", "low-dynamic-level", "mid-century", "crooner" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "crooner", "tin-pan-alley", "great-american-songbook", "mid-century", "1930s-1950s" ] }, { "id": "praise_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Praise / declamatory voice", "descriptors": [ "declaimed", "melismatic", "sustained-high-register" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "praise", "gospel", "jeli", "griot", "qawwali", "devotional", "taarab", "arabesk", "mizrahi" ] }, { "id": "nasal_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Nasal / forward-resonant", "descriptors": [ "nasal", "forward-resonant" ], "match_tokens": [ "nasal-color", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "flamenco" ] }, { "id": "yodel_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Yodel (chest-falsetto break)", "descriptors": [ "yodel", "register-break" ], "match_tokens": [ "yodel-style", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "cowboy" ] }, { "id": "sprechgesang_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Sprechgesang (speech-song)", "descriptors": [ "sprechgesang", "speech-pitched" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "keening_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Keening / lament wail", "descriptors": [ "keening", "lament-wail" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sean-nos" ] }, { "id": "fado_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Fado lament voice", "descriptors": [ "lament-wail", "melismatic", "ornate", "saudade" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "fado" ] }, { "id": "rap_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Rap voice", "descriptors": [ "rap", "mc-flow", "rhythmic-speech" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "rap", "hip-hop" ] }, { "id": "child_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Children's choir / treble", "descriptors": [ "child", "treble" ], "match_tokens": [ "child-voice", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "boys-choir" ] }, { "id": "ingenue_childlike_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Ingenue / childlike voice (adult-performed girlish brightness)", "descriptors": [ "girlish-light-bright", "raised-larynx-small-tract", "wide-eyed-ingenue", "adult-performing-childlike" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "musical-theater-ingenue", "idol-pop", "jazz-age-novelty" ] }, { "id": "husky_smoky_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Husky / smoky voice (breath-plus-grain stylistic timbre)", "descriptors": [ "husky-smoky", "breath-plus-grain-simultaneous", "warm-rasp-veiled", "stylistic-not-pathological" ], "match_tokens": [ "breathy", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "torch-song", "blues-rock", "soul" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_vocal_tract", "surface": false, "name": "Vocal-tract / vowel posture", "variants": [ { "id": "tract_neutral", "default": true, "surface": false, "name": "Neutral tract (unmarked)", "descriptors": [] }, { "id": "tongue_root_retracted_dark", "surface": false, "auto": false, "name": "Tongue-root retracted (back-vowel, dark)", "descriptors": [ "tongue-root-retracted", "back-vowel-targeted", "front-consonant-degraded", "pharyngeal-darkened" ] }, { "id": "tongue_root_advanced_bright", "surface": false, "auto": false, "name": "Tongue-root advanced (front-vowel, bright)", "descriptors": [ "tongue-root-advanced", "front-vowel-forward", "consonant-crisp", "oral-brightened" ] }, { "id": "pharyngeal_widened_yawned", "surface": false, "auto": false, "name": "Pharynx widened (yawn-open throat)", "descriptors": [ "pharynx-widened", "yawn-open-throat", "inner-space-expanded" ] }, { "id": "nasalized_tract", "surface": false, "auto": false, "name": "Nasalized (velopharyngeal port open)", "descriptors": [ "nasalized", "velopharyngeal-open", "nasal-coupled-resonance" ] }, { "id": "tongue_retroflex_r_colored", "auto": false, "name": "Tongue retroflex (r-colored, rhotic)", "descriptors": [ "tongue-retroflex-bunched", "r-colored-vowel", "f3-lowered", "rhotic-drawl" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "country", "americana" ] }, { "id": "larynx_raised_brassy", "auto": false, "name": "Larynx raised (short-tract, brassy)", "descriptors": [ "larynx-raised", "tract-shortened", "all-formant-raised-brassy", "thin-bright-call" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "broadway-soubrette", "jingju", "character-voice" ] }, { "id": "lips_spread_smile_bright", "auto": false, "name": "Lips spread (smile-posture, bright)", "descriptors": [ "lips-spread-smile", "front-cavity-shortened", "f2-raised-brightened", "glassy-forward-vowel" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "1960s-girl-group", "surf-pop", "k-pop" ] }, { "id": "lips_rounded_darkened", "auto": false, "name": "Lips rounded-protruded (hooded, dark)", "descriptors": [ "lips-rounded-protruded", "all-formant-lowered", "hooded-darkened-vowel", "blend-muted" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "choral", "early-music", "crooner-era" ] }, { "id": "tract_singers_formant_ring", "auto": false, "name": "Singer's formant cluster (2.8-3.2 kHz ring, cutting ping)", "descriptors": [ "singers-formant-cluster-3k", "operatic-ring-ping", "carrying-over-orchestra" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "opera" ] }, { "id": "tract_jaw_dropped_open_call", "auto": false, "name": "Jaw dropped / open-call resonance (wide oral, shout-carry)", "descriptors": [ "jaw-dropped-wide-oral", "open-call-carrying-resonance", "field-holler-projection" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "field-holler", "gospel-shout" ] }, { "id": "tract_velum_raised_denasal", "auto": false, "name": "Velum raised (fully de-nasalized, clean oral core)", "descriptors": [ "velum-raised-denasalized", "oral-only-no-nasal-coupling", "clean-vowel-core" ], "match_tokens": [] }, { "id": "tract_epilaryngeal_narrowed", "auto": false, "name": "Epilaryngeal tube narrowed (AES resonance boost, ring)", "descriptors": [ "epilaryngeal-tube-narrowed", "aes-resonance-boost-3k", "ring-without-nasal" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "country", "beijing-opera" ] }, { "id": "tract_lengthened_lowered_larynx", "auto": false, "name": "Lengthened tract / lowered larynx (covered, dark formants)", "descriptors": [ "tract-lengthened-lowered-larynx", "covered-darkened-formants", "rounded-warm-depth" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "crooner-era" ] }, { "id": "tract_cupped_hand_muffle", "auto": false, "name": "Cupped-hand / hand-over-mouth muffle (lo-fi filter)", "descriptors": [ "cupped-hand-muffle", "hand-over-mouth-filter", "muted-lo-fi-vocal" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "lo-fi", "harmonica-vocal", "blues" ] }, { "id": "tract_mask_placement_forward", "auto": false, "name": "Forward mask placement (sinus/mask resonance, buzzy-bright)", "descriptors": [ "mask-placement-forward", "sinus-mask-resonance-buzz", "forward-bright-placement" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "musical-theater", "pop" ] }, { "id": "tract_back_swallowed_placement", "auto": false, "name": "Back / swallowed placement (pulled-back, muffled)", "descriptors": [ "back-swallowed-placement", "pulled-back-muffled-tone", "throaty-recessed" ], "match_tokens": [] } ] }, { "id": "voice_effort", "surface": false, "name": "Phonatory effort / subglottal pressure", "variants": [ { "id": "effort_moderate", "default": true, "surface": false, "name": "Moderate effort (unmarked dynamic)", "descriptors": [] }, { "id": "effort_minimal_undersung", "surface": false, "auto": false, "name": "Minimal pressure / under-sung (conversation volume or below)", "descriptors": [ "minimal-subglottal-pressure", "conversation-volume-or-below", "under-sung", "force-withheld" ] }, { "id": "effort_projected", "surface": false, "auto": false, "name": "Projected (raised pressure, carrying)", "descriptors": [ "raised-subglottal-pressure", "projected", "carrying" ] }, { "id": "effort_pressed_maximal", "surface": false, "auto": false, "name": "Pressed / maximal force", "descriptors": [ "maximal-subglottal-pressure", "pressed-loud", "full-force" ] }, { "id": "effort_overdriven_scream", "auto": false, "name": "Overdriven scream pressure (past clean-phonation limit)", "descriptors": [ "overdriven-subglottal-pressure", "source-distorting", "past-clean-limit", "scream-pressure" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "hardcore-punk", "extreme-metal", "raw-scream" ] }, { "id": "effort_fortissimo_sustained", "auto": false, "name": "Sustained full-voice fortissimo (flow phonation at maximal loudness)", "descriptors": [ "sustained-fortissimo", "hall-filling", "flow-phonation-unstrained", "breath-anchored-loud" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "operatic-climax", "stadium-anthem", "gospel-climax" ] }, { "id": "effort_subtone_low_breath", "auto": false, "name": "Subtone (low pressure, intimate breathy-low)", "descriptors": [ "subtone-low-subglottal-pressure", "breath-heavy-low-volume", "intimate-jazz-subtone" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "cool-jazz-vocal", "crooner" ] }, { "id": "effort_messa_di_voce", "auto": false, "name": "Messa di voce (crescendo-decrescendo on one note)", "descriptors": [ "messa-di-voce-swell", "crescendo-then-decrescendo-single-note", "breath-controlled-dynamic-arc" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "bel-canto", "classical" ] }, { "id": "effort_decrescendo_niente", "auto": false, "name": "Decrescendo al niente (fade to nothing)", "descriptors": [ "decrescendo-al-niente", "fade-to-inaudible", "tapered-breath-release" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "art-song" ] }, { "id": "effort_terraced_dynamics", "auto": false, "name": "Terraced dynamics (abrupt loud/soft blocks)", "descriptors": [ "terraced-dynamic-steps", "abrupt-loud-soft-blocks", "baroque-echo-dynamic" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "baroque", "early-music" ] }, { "id": "effort_sforzando_accent", "auto": false, "name": "Sforzando accents (sudden pressure spikes)", "descriptors": [ "sforzando-stress-accent", "sudden-pressure-spike-then-back", "marked-dynamic-jab" ], "match_tokens": [] }, { "id": "effort_pulsed_gospel_push", "auto": false, "name": "Rhythmic breath-pulse push (gospel/soul emphasis)", "descriptors": [ "rhythmic-breath-pulse-push", "gospel-emphasis-surge", "soul-dynamic-swell" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "gospel", "soul" ] }, { "id": "effort_edge_of_clean_cuivre", "auto": false, "name": "Edge-of-clean brassy (cuivré, controlled brink)", "descriptors": [ "edge-of-clean-limit-controlled", "cuivre-brassy-edge", "pressure-brink-not-past" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "rock-belt", "musical-theater" ] }, { "id": "effort_marcato_declamatory", "auto": false, "name": "Marcato declamation (weighted, each note stressed)", "descriptors": [ "marcato-weighted-declamation", "heavy-emphatic-delivery", "each-syllable-pressed" ], "match_tokens": [], "canonical_tags": [ "opera", "anthem" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_vibrato", "surface": false, "name": "Vibrato", "variants": [ { "id": "straight_tone", "name": "Straight tone", "descriptors": [ "pure", "direct", "instrumental" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "vibrato-rich" ] }, { "id": "slow_vibrato", "default": true, "name": "Slow vibrato (relaxed rate, rounded pulse)", "descriptors": [ "slow-rate", "rounded-even-pulse", "warm-low-mid-resonance", "chest-resonance-low-mid", "expressive", "classical" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived" ], "canonical_tags": [ "classical" ] }, { "id": "fast_vibrato", "name": "Fast vibrato (quick narrow shimmer)", "descriptors": [ "fast-rate", "narrow-quick-shimmer", "nervy-intensity", "nervy", "treble-extended" ], "match_tokens": [ "fast-attack-transient", "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived" ] }, { "id": "diaphragm_vibrato", "name": "Diaphragm vibrato (breath-pulsed loudness wave)", "descriptors": [ "breath-pulsed", "amplitude-loudness-wave", "deliberate-even-pulse", "overtone-rich-sustained", "controlled" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived" ] }, { "id": "oscillating_vibrato", "name": "Wide oscillating vibrato (cry-tinged pitch sway)", "descriptors": [ "wide-pitch-sway", "cry-tinged", "drawled-roll", "bluesy", "expressive" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "country", "blues" ] }, { "id": "delayed_vibrato", "name": "Delayed-onset vibrato (straight tone blooming into vibrato)", "descriptors": [ "straight-onset", "late-blooming-waver", "sustain-then-oscillate", "tasteful", "modern" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "contemporary-pop", "jazz" ] }, { "id": "terminal_vibrato", "name": "Terminal vibrato (straight core, note-end flourish)", "descriptors": [ "straight-note-core", "note-end-flourish", "release-only-waver", "melodic", "period-honest" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "country", "early-music", "period-performance" ] }, { "id": "slow_wide_terminal_vibrato", "auto": false, "name": "Slow, wide, terminal-only", "descriptors": [ "slow-rate", "wide-excursion", "terminal-sustain-only" ] }, { "id": "wobble_vibrato", "auto": false, "name": "Wobble (wide-slow, pitch-center blurring)", "descriptors": [ "wide-slow-oscillation", "pitch-center-blurred", "laboured-sway" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "late-career-operatic", "dramatic-opera" ] }, { "id": "bleat_caprino_vibrato", "auto": false, "name": "Bleat / caprino (fast narrow goat-trill)", "descriptors": [ "fast-bleat-caprino", "goat-trill-narrow-fast", "nervous-tight-flutter" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "early-music-caution" ] }, { "id": "narrow_shimmer_vibrato", "auto": false, "name": "Narrow continuous shimmer (subtle close-mic waver)", "descriptors": [ "narrow-continuous-shimmer", "close-mic-subtle-waver", "pop-tasteful-narrow" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "contemporary-pop" ] }, { "id": "pure_pitch_no_amplitude_vibrato", "auto": false, "name": "Pure-pitch vibrato (fold-tension modulation, no loudness change)", "descriptors": [ "pure-pitch-vibrato-no-amplitude", "fold-tension-modulation-only", "string-like-pitch-waver" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "amplitude_tremolo_vibrato", "auto": false, "name": "Amplitude tremolo (loudness pulse, pitch stays)", "descriptors": [ "amplitude-tremolo-pitch-stable", "loudness-only-pulse", "organ-like-throb" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gospel-organ-vocal" ] }, { "id": "accelerating_vibrato", "auto": false, "name": "Accelerating (slow onset speeding up, intensifying)", "descriptors": [ "accelerating-vibrato-rate", "intensifying-over-sustain", "building-flutter" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "decelerating_widening_vibrato", "auto": false, "name": "Decelerating + widening toward release (dramatic open)", "descriptors": [ "decelerating-widening-toward-release", "dramatic-opening-waver", "slow-wide-finish" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "dramatic-opera", "power-ballad" ] }, { "id": "asymmetric_scoop_vibrato", "auto": false, "name": "Asymmetric under-pitch scoop (leans flat, blues/soul lean)", "descriptors": [ "asymmetric-under-pitch-scoop", "blues-soul-lean-flat-cycle", "bluesy-drawled-sway" ], "match_tokens": [ "vibrato-rich", "vibrato-y", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "blues", "soul" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_articulation", "surface": false, "name": "Articulation", "variants": [ { "id": "legato_voice", "default": true, "name": "Legato", "descriptors": [ "continuous-phonation", "connected", "flowing" ], "match_tokens": [ "legato", "sustained-tone", "speech-derived" ] }, { "id": "staccato_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Staccato", "descriptors": [ "punctuated", "percussive", "rhythmic" ], "match_tokens": [ "staccato", "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "melisma_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Melisma-heavy (runs and riffs on single syllables)", "descriptors": [ "multi-note-runs-per-syllable", "cascading-riff-runs", "vowel-carried-flourish", "ornamental", "expressive" ], "match_tokens": [ "melismatic", "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gospel", "r-and-b" ] }, { "id": "spoken_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Spoken / rapped", "descriptors": [ "rhythmic", "forward", "conversational" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ] }, { "id": "shouted_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Shouted / hollered", "descriptors": [ "unrestrained", "outdoor-pitched" ], "match_tokens": [ "shouted", "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "field" ] }, { "id": "narrative_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Narrative / declamatory", "descriptors": [ "narrative", "declamatory", "storytelling" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "r&b", "afrobeat", "soul", "hip-hop" ] }, { "id": "hocket_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Hocket (interlocked note-trading, one melody split across voices)", "descriptors": [ "interlocked-note-trading", "alternating-gap-and-hit", "melody-split-between-voices", "hocket-articulation" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sardinian-polyphony", "medieval-motet", "aka-pygmy-polyphony" ] }, { "id": "call_response_voice", "surface": false, "name": "Call-and-response (leader phrase answered by response phrase)", "descriptors": [ "leader-call-answered", "antiphonal-phrase-exchange", "question-answer-phrasing", "callresponse-articulation", "antiphonal-articulation" ], "match_tokens": [ "call-response", "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "worksong", "gospel", "work-song", "west-african" ] }, { "id": "patter_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Patter (rapid-fire syllabic delivery at tongue-twister tempo)", "descriptors": [ "rapid-fire-syllabic", "tongue-twister-tempo", "breathless-comic-precision", "maximum-syllable-rate" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gilbert-and-sullivan", "opera-buffa", "comic-song" ] }, { "id": "mumbled_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Slurred / mumbled diction (vowel-smeared, consonants swallowed)", "descriptors": [ "vowel-smeared", "consonant-softened", "under-articulated", "half-swallowed-syllables" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "indie", "dream-pop", "mumble-rap", "2010s" ] }, { "id": "marcato_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Marcato (each note marked/separated, weighted)", "descriptors": [ "marcato-each-note-marked", "weighted-separation", "emphatic-detachment" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "opera", "anthem" ] }, { "id": "portato_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Portato (semi-detached, breath-pulsed carry)", "descriptors": [ "portato-semi-detached-carried", "breath-pulsed-legato", "gently-articulated-sustain" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ] }, { "id": "glottal_stop_percussive_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Glottal-stop punctuated (okina / hamza percussive onsets)", "descriptors": [ "glottal-stop-punctuation", "okina-hamza-percussive-onset", "hard-attack-separation" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "hawaiian", "arabic" ] }, { "id": "vocable_syllabic_drum_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Vocable syllable-drumming (konnakol / bol / mouth-music)", "descriptors": [ "vocable-syllable-drumming", "konnakol-bol-mouth-music", "non-lexical-rhythmic-attack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "carnatic-konnakol", "puirt-a-beul", "scat" ] }, { "id": "ululation_trilled_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Ululation (rapid uvular-trilled celebratory)", "descriptors": [ "ululation-rapid-uvular-trill", "celebratory-zaghrouta", "high-trilled-cry" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "articulated" ], "canonical_tags": [ "middle-eastern", "african", "celebratory" ] }, { "id": "sighed_falling_release_voice", "auto": false, "name": "Sighed falling-off releases (phrase-end downward sigh)", "descriptors": [ "sighed-falling-release", "phrase-end-downward-sigh", "languid-drop-off" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "torch-song", "r&b-ballad", "indie" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_microtone", "surface": false, "name": "Pitch flexibility", "variants": [ { "id": "tempered_voice", "default": true, "name": "Tempered (12-tone-locked)", "descriptors": [ "equal-tempered", "western-default" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend" ], "canonical_tags": [ "pop", "rock", "jazz", "classical-western", "r&b", "modern-music" ] }, { "id": "blue_notes", "name": "Blue notes / bent thirds", "descriptors": [ "blues-inflected", "pitched-between", "expressive" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend" ] }, { "id": "shruti_inflected", "name": "Shruti-inflected (raga)", "descriptors": [ "microtonal", "raga-bound", "ornamental" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "shruti-inflected", "speech-derived" ] }, { "id": "maqam_inflected", "name": "Maqam-inflected (neutral-third quarter-steps)", "descriptors": [ "neutral-third-half-flat", "quarter-step-shading", "between-major-and-minor", "modal-idiomatic-intonation", "maqam-neutral-step" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "shruti-inflected", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "arabic", "middle-eastern", "egyptian", "turkish", "arabic-maqam", "tarab" ] }, { "id": "overtone_singing", "name": "Overtone / harmonic singing", "descriptors": [ "filtered-throat", "formant-shifted" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tuvan" ] }, { "id": "bend_inflected", "name": "Bend-inflected (scooped attacks, curled releases)", "descriptors": [ "scooped-attack", "curled-release", "under-pitch-arrival", "expressive-slide", "bend-inflected", "pitch-bending" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "shruti-inflected", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "flamenco", "blues" ] }, { "id": "portamento_inflected", "auto": false, "name": "Portamento-heavy (audible slides connecting every note)", "descriptors": [ "note-connecting-slide", "swooping-legato", "late-pitch-arrival", "continuous-glide-between-targets" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "early-recording-era", "pre-1930-operatic", "hawaiian-falsetto", "classic-country" ] }, { "id": "just_intonation_pure", "auto": false, "name": "Just intonation (pure beatless ratios, chord-lock)", "descriptors": [ "just-intonation-pure-ratios", "beatless-chord-lock", "harmonic-series-tuning" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "barbershop", "sacred-harp", "choral" ] }, { "id": "pythagorean_leading", "auto": false, "name": "Pythagorean expressive leading tones (wide sharpened semitones)", "descriptors": [ "pythagorean-wide-leading-tone", "expressive-sharpened-semitone", "melodic-tension-tuning" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "expressive-classical" ] }, { "id": "meantone_comma_inflected", "auto": false, "name": "Meantone / comma-inflected (narrow pure thirds, early music)", "descriptors": [ "meantone-comma-inflected", "narrow-pure-third-early-music", "historically-tuned" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "early-music", "renaissance" ] }, { "id": "byzantine_morai_microtone", "auto": false, "name": "Byzantine chant microtones (soft/hard chromatic genera)", "descriptors": [ "byzantine-morai-microtone", "soft-hard-chromatic-genera", "orthodox-modal-shading" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "shruti-inflected", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "byzantine", "orthodox-chant" ] }, { "id": "pelog_slendro_inflected", "auto": false, "name": "Pelog / slendro inflected (gamelan non-tempered, stretched)", "descriptors": [ "pelog-slendro-inflected", "gamelan-non-tempered", "stretched-non-octave-tuning" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gamelan", "indonesian" ] }, { "id": "pentatonic_gapped_glide", "auto": false, "name": "Gapped-pentatonic glides (sliding between anhemitonic degrees)", "descriptors": [ "pentatonic-gapped-glide", "sliding-between-anhemitonic-degrees", "east-asian-pitch-slide" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "chinese", "east-asian" ] }, { "id": "untempered_pitch_drift", "auto": false, "name": "Untempered pitch drift (free-intonation, floating center)", "descriptors": [ "untempered-pitch-drift", "free-intonation-folk", "pitch-center-floating" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "field-recording", "untrained-folk" ] }, { "id": "siren_glissando_full", "auto": false, "name": "Full siren glissando (continuous sweep across register)", "descriptors": [ "full-range-siren-glissando", "continuous-sweep-across-register", "swooping-pitch-sweep" ], "match_tokens": [ "microtonal-bend", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "avant-garde-vocal", "r&b-run" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_tradition", "surface": false, "name": "Vocal tradition / training", "variants": [ { "id": "modern_pop_vocal_training", "default": true, "name": "Modern pop / contemporary commercial vocal training", "descriptors": [ "modern-pop-training", "contemporary-commercial", "mixed-belt", "studio-ready" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "pop", "modern" ] }, { "id": "appalachian_outlaw_folk_tradition", "auto": false, "name": "Anglo-American folk / outlaw-country (plain narrative, untrained-natural)", "descriptors": [ "anglo-american-folk", "plain-spoken-narrative", "untrained-natural", "outlaw-country-lineage" ] }, { "id": "bel_canto_tradition", "name": "Bel canto (Italian operatic)", "descriptors": [ "bel-canto", "italian-operatic", "sustained-line", "legato-priority" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "classical-trained" ], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "italian" ] }, { "id": "baroque_ornamental_tradition", "name": "Baroque ornamental (trills, divisions, messa di voce)", "descriptors": [ "baroque-ornamental", "messa-di-voce", "period-style", "trill-heavy" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "classical-trained", "period-performance" ], "canonical_tags": [ "baroque", "classical" ] }, { "id": "sean_nos_tradition", "name": "Sean-nós (Irish unaccompanied)", "descriptors": [ "sean-nos", "unaccompanied", "gaelic-tradition", "free-rhythm", "ornamented" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "celtic", "folk" ] }, { "id": "qawwali_tradition", "name": "Qawwali (Sufi devotional)", "descriptors": [ "qawwali", "sufi-devotional", "call-response", "persian-melismatic" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sufi", "south-asian" ] }, { "id": "khoomei_tuvan_tradition", "name": "Khoomei (Tuvan throat-singing)", "descriptors": [ "khoomei", "overtone-singing", "multi-pitch-simultaneous" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tuvan", "mongolian", "central-asian" ] }, { "id": "inuit_katajjaq_tradition", "name": "Inuit katajjaq (throat-singing duet)", "descriptors": [ "katajjaq", "inuit-throat-singing", "duet-game", "breathing-rhythm" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "arctic", "indigenous" ] }, { "id": "hindustani_khyal_tradition", "name": "Hindustani khyal (raga improvisation)", "descriptors": [ "khyal", "hindustani", "raga-improvisation", "meend-ornamentation", "alap-jor-jhala" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "south-asian", "classical" ] }, { "id": "hindustani_dhrupad_tradition", "name": "Hindustani dhrupad (ancient devotional)", "descriptors": [ "dhrupad", "pre-khyal", "austere-meditative", "pakhawaj-accompanied" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "devotional" ], "canonical_tags": [ "south-asian", "classical" ] }, { "id": "carnatic_classical_tradition", "name": "Carnatic (South Indian classical)", "descriptors": [ "carnatic", "south-indian", "gamaka-ornamentation", "kriti-form" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "south-asian", "classical" ] }, { "id": "persian_dastgah_tradition", "name": "Persian dastgah (modal system)", "descriptors": [ "dastgah", "persian-classical", "modal-improvisation", "avaz-ornamentation" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "middle-eastern", "persian", "classical" ] }, { "id": "arabic_maqam_tradition", "name": "Arabic maqam (modal system)", "descriptors": [ "arabic-maqam", "quartertone", "modal-improvisation", "tarab" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "arabic", "middle-eastern", "classical" ] }, { "id": "flamenco_jondo_tradition", "name": "Flamenco cante jondo (deep song)", "descriptors": [ "cante-jondo", "flamenco-deep", "gypsy-andalusian", "melismatic-raw" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "flamenco", "iberian", "romani" ] }, { "id": "flamenco_chico_tradition", "name": "Flamenco cante chico (light style)", "descriptors": [ "cante-chico", "flamenco-light", "festive" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "flamenco", "iberian" ] }, { "id": "operatic_tradition", "name": "Operatic (general, post-Verdi)", "descriptors": [ "operatic", "projected", "classical-resonance", "large-hall" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "classical-trained" ], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "italian" ] }, { "id": "broadway_legit_tradition", "name": "Broadway / musical-theater legit", "descriptors": [ "broadway-legit", "musical-theater", "classical-leaning", "lyric-projection" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "classical-trained" ], "canonical_tags": [ "broadway" ] }, { "id": "gospel_pentecostal_tradition", "name": "Gospel / Pentecostal (call and response, melisma)", "descriptors": [ "gospel-pentecostal", "melismatic", "blues-inflected", "call-response" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gospel", "soul" ] }, { "id": "jazz_scat_tradition", "name": "Jazz scat (vocal improvisation)", "descriptors": [ "scat", "jazz-improvisation", "instrument-emulation" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "jazz" ] }, { "id": "beatboxing_tradition", "name": "Beatboxing (vocal percussion)", "descriptors": [ "beatbox", "vocal-percussion", "mouth-drums" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "hip-hop" ] }, { "id": "microtonal_31tet_tradition", "name": "31-TET / extended-tuning training", "descriptors": [ "31-tet", "extended-tuning", "experimental-tuning" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "experimental" ] }, { "id": "japanese_min_yo_tradition", "name": "Japanese min'yō (folk-vocal lineage)", "descriptors": [ "min-yo", "japanese-folk-vocal", "kobushi-ornament-traces", "koe-on-resonance", "edo-meiji-folk-lineage" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "japanese", "east-asian", "folk" ] }, { "id": "korean_minsogak_vocal_tradition", "name": "Korean minsogak (folk-vocal, distinct from pansori-virtuosity)", "descriptors": [ "korean-minsogak-folk-vocal", "jeong-affect", "sigimsae-ornament-traces", "gyemyeon-pyeong-modal" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "korean", "east-asian", "folk" ] }, { "id": "chinese_classical_vocal_tradition", "name": "Chinese classical vocal (kunqu, jingju, traditional folk)", "descriptors": [ "chinese-classical-vocal", "tonal-language-melody-locked", "mandarin-syllabic-tradition", "qing-yi-laodan-role-types" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "chinese", "east-asian", "classical" ] }, { "id": "polynesian_oli_tradition", "name": "Polynesian oli / mele (Hawaiian, Maori chant)", "descriptors": [ "polynesian-oli-chant", "hawaiian-okina-glottal-onset", "kahiko-mele-tradition", "recitative-free-meter" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "polynesian", "hawaiian", "maori", "oceanic", "indigenous" ] }, { "id": "yoruba_tonal_vocal_tradition", "name": "Yoruba tonal-language vocal (oríkì, praise, ìrèmọjẹ)", "descriptors": [ "yoruba-tonal-vocal", "oriki-praise-tradition", "tonal-language-melody-locked", "west-african-call-response-vocal" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "yoruba", "west-african", "african" ] }, { "id": "scottish_gaelic_taladh_tradition", "name": "Scottish Gaelic tàladh / puirt-a-beul (Hebridean-Highland vocal)", "descriptors": [ "scottish-gaelic-vocal", "taladh-tradition", "hebridean-vocal", "puirt-a-beul-adjacent", "scottish-modal-affect" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "celtic", "scottish-gaelic", "folk" ] }, { "id": "mediterranean_demotic_tradition", "name": "Mediterranean demotic folk-vocal (Greek, Sardinian, Corsican, Romanian, Balkan)", "descriptors": [ "mediterranean-demotic-vocal", "modal-melismatic-folk", "descending-cry-cadence", "professional-keening-tradition-lineage" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "mediterranean", "greek", "sardinian", "balkan", "folk" ] }, { "id": "mande_jeli_vocal_tradition", "name": "Mande jeli / griot vocal (Mali, Senegal, Guinea, Gambia)", "descriptors": [ "mande-jeli-vocal", "griot-praise-narrative-vocal", "pentatonic-jeli-modal-vocal", "west-african-praise-vocal-lineage" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "mande", "west-african", "griot", "praise-vocal" ] }, { "id": "sami_joik_tradition", "name": "Sámi joik / yoik (Nordic Sápmi vocal)", "descriptors": [ "sami-joik-vocal", "yoik-vuelle-luohti", "sapmi-leudd-vocal" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sami", "sapmi", "joik" ] }, { "id": "andean_quechua_tradition", "name": "Andean Quechua / Aymara wayno vocal (Andes highland)", "descriptors": [ "andean-quechua-vocal", "wayno-huayno-aymara", "altiplano-quena-vocal" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "andean", "quechua", "aymara" ] }, { "id": "native_american_vocal_tradition", "name": "Native American vocal (Plains/Southwest powwow & ceremonial)", "descriptors": [ "amerindian-powwow-vocal", "pueblo-amerindian-vocal" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "amerindian", "powwow" ] }, { "id": "southeast_asian_folk_vocal_tradition", "name": "Southeast Asian folk vocal (lam / mor-lam, luk-thung)", "descriptors": [ "morlam-lam-vocal", "isan-luk-thung-vocal", "mekong-khmer-vocal" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "isan", "mekong" ] }, { "id": "southern_african_bantu_vocal_tradition", "name": "Southern African Bantu vocal (Zulu / Xhosa / Tsonga choral chant, isicathamiya to township pop)", "descriptors": [ "nguni-tsonga-sotho-vocal", "isicathamiya-mbube-cothoza", "township-jive-chant-vocal" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tsonga", "zulu", "african" ] }, { "id": "honky_tonk_high_lonesome_tradition", "auto": false, "name": "Country honky-tonk / high-lonesome (hard-twang cry-break)", "descriptors": [ "hard-twang-cut", "cry-break-catch", "high-lonesome-tenor", "nasal-keening-edge" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "country", "honky-tonk", "bluegrass" ] }, { "id": "jamaican_dancehall_toasting_tradition", "auto": false, "name": "Jamaican toasting / dancehall deejay (patois sing-jay)", "descriptors": [ "toasting-deejay-flow", "patois-inflected", "riddim-locked-chat", "melodic-sing-jay" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "reggae", "dancehall", "jamaican" ] }, { "id": "pansori_tradition", "auto": false, "name": "Pansori (Korean epic narrative, roughened virtuosity)", "descriptors": [ "husky-roughened-projection", "epic-narrative-declamation", "trained-hoarse-timbre", "hours-long-endurance" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "pansori", "korean", "gugak" ] }, { "id": "bollywood_playback_tradition", "auto": false, "name": "Bollywood playback (high bright film-song tessitura)", "descriptors": [ "high-bright-tessitura", "thin-fold-agile", "light-classical-ornamented", "mic-close-precision" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "bollywood", "hindi-film-song", "filmi" ] }, { "id": "french_chanson_tradition", "auto": false, "name": "French chanson (diction-first dramatic parlando)", "descriptors": [ "diction-first-text-driven", "dramatic-parlando-swell", "rolled-r-articulation", "cabaret-intimate-to-declaimed" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "chanson", "french", "cabaret" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_compound", "surface": false, "name": "Compound mechanism (multi-source phonation)", "variants": [ { "id": "voice_mechanism_single_source", "default": true, "name": "Single-source phonation (standard fold vibration)", "descriptors": [ "single-source-phonation", "standard-fold-vibration" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_overtone_isolation_F2", "name": "Overtone formant-isolation (F2 reinforcement, 2-3 kHz whistle harmonic over low fundamental)", "descriptors": [ "F2-overtone-isolation", "tongue-narrowed-formant-tuning", "lip-bell-overtone-shaping" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tuvan", "mongolian", "overtone-tradition", "central-asian" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_ventricular_subharmonic", "name": "Ventricular co-oscillation subharmonic (false-folds at half true-fold rate, F0 70-100 Hz)", "descriptors": [ "ventricular-co-oscillation-subharmonic", "false-fold-half-rate-coupling", "octave-down-pitched" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tuvan", "mongolian", "sardinian-polyphony", "tibetan-ritual", "overtone-tradition" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_aryepiglottic_steppe", "name": "Aryepiglottic pseudoglottis steppe-undertone (raspier high subharmonic with AES engagement)", "descriptors": [ "aryepiglottic-pseudoglottis-steppe", "raspier-higher-subharmonic" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tuvan", "mongolian", "overtone-tradition" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_yodel_M1_M2_alternation", "name": "M1↔M2 rapid mechanism-transition (yodel-family register-flip)", "descriptors": [ "M1-M2-rapid-transition", "register-flip-yodel-mechanism" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "yodel-style" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_tahrir_tekye_chain", "name": "Tahrir tekye-chain (glottal-appoggiatura M1→M2 jump-chain per Castellengo/During)", "descriptors": [ "tahrir-tekye-chain-mechanism", "glottal-appoggiatura-jump" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "persian", "middle-eastern", "classical" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_false_fold_distorted", "name": "False-fold distorted (ventricular noise + supraglottic compression, true-folds protected)", "descriptors": [ "false-fold-distorted-phonation", "supraglottic-compression-screamed", "ventricular-aperiodic-noise" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "metal", "hardcore", "death-growl" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_ingressive_paired", "name": "Ingressive-egressive paired-breath alternation (interlocked supraglottic+aryepiglottic both phases)", "descriptors": [ "ingressive-egressive-paired-breath", "interlocked-supraglottic-both-phases" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "inuit-throat-singing", "arctic", "indigenous" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_M0_pulse_borrowed", "name": "M1 with M0-pulse borrowing (fry-modal mix, growl-into-modal)", "descriptors": [ "M1-with-M0-pulse-borrowing", "fry-modal-mix" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_supraglottal_rasp_pitch_stable", "auto": false, "name": "Supraglottal rasp on a clean core (controlled ventricular/AES grain, soft throat-clear; true-fold pitch untouched)", "descriptors": [ "supraglottal-rasp-clean-core", "pitch-stable-distortion", "controlled-ventricular-overlay", "throat-clear-grain" ] }, { "id": "voice_mechanism_diplophonic_biphonation", "auto": false, "name": "Diplophonic biphonation (two independent simultaneous fundamentals, incommensurate F0 from asymmetric/split fold vibration)", "descriptors": [ "two-independent-simultaneous-pitches", "incommensurate-non-harmonic-beating", "rough-double-toned-buzz", "asymmetric-split-fold-oscillation" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "extended-vocal-technique", "avant-garde-vocal", "biphonic" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_quality", "surface": false, "name": "Estill voice-quality configuration (six canonical figure-combinations)", "variants": [ { "id": "voice_estill_speech", "default": true, "name": "Speech quality (modal, neutral larynx, minimal AES narrowing)", "descriptors": [ "speech-quality-modal-neutral-larynx", "minimal-AES-narrowing" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_falsetto", "name": "Falsetto quality (thin folds, breathier than M2-modal)", "descriptors": [ "falsetto-quality-thin-fold-breathy", "reduced-vibratory-mass" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "high-falsetto" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_sob", "name": "Sob quality (low larynx + thin folds — darkened, muffled weeping)", "descriptors": [ "sob-quality-low-larynx-thin-fold", "darkened-weeping-warmth", "hollow-muted-grief", "lowered-larynx-cry-configuration" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "classical-trained" ], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "opera" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_oral_twang", "name": "Oral twang (AES narrowed for high-F2 brightness, velum closed)", "descriptors": [ "oral-twang-AES-narrowed-bright", "high-F2-brightness-projection" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "country", "andean", "cajun" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_nasal_twang", "name": "Nasal twang (AES narrowed + velar port open)", "descriptors": [ "nasal-twang-velar-port-open", "AES-narrowed-with-nasal-resonance" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "country", "flamenco", "beijing-opera" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_opera", "name": "Opera quality (low larynx + thick folds + AES narrowing + torso anchoring — singer-formant cluster ~2.3-3 kHz per Sundberg)", "descriptors": [ "opera-quality-low-larynx-anchored", "singer-formant-cluster-2_3-to-3-kHz" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "classical-trained" ], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "opera", "italian" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_belt", "name": "Belt quality (high larynx + thick folds + AES narrowing + head-neck anchoring)", "descriptors": [ "belt-quality-high-larynx-thick-fold", "head-neck-anchored-high-pressure" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "broadway", "gospel", "soul", "r&b", "ranchera" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_cry", "auto": false, "name": "Cry quality (thin folds + tilted thyroid, larynx higher than sob — small, sweet, plaintive)", "descriptors": [ "cry-quality-thin-fold-tilted-thyroid", "raised-larynx-small-volume", "sweet-plaintive-whimper-onset" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "contemporary-pop", "soul-ballad" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_onset_glottal", "auto": false, "name": "Glottal onset (firm TVF adduction, coup-de-glotte hard start)", "descriptors": [ "glottal-onset-firm-adduction", "hard-coup-de-glotte-start", "clean-pressed-attack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "rock-belt" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_onset_aspirate", "auto": false, "name": "Aspirate onset (breath before tone, /h/ start)", "descriptors": [ "aspirate-onset-breath-before-tone", "h-onset-soft-start", "breathy-attack" ], "match_tokens": [ "breathy", "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "pop-ballad", "soul" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_onset_smooth_simultaneous", "auto": false, "name": "Smooth simultaneous onset (balanced airflow + adduction)", "descriptors": [ "smooth-simultaneous-onset", "balanced-airflow-adduction", "even-clean-start" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_tvf_thick_body", "auto": false, "name": "Thick true-fold body (heavy mechanism, full mass)", "descriptors": [ "thick-true-fold-body-mass", "heavy-mechanism-full-adduction", "rich-low-harmonic" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_tvf_thin_cover", "auto": false, "name": "Thin true-fold cover (light mechanism, reduced mass)", "descriptors": [ "thin-true-fold-cover", "light-mechanism-reduced-mass", "flute-clear-upper" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_tvf_stiff_creak", "auto": false, "name": "Stiff true-folds (creak / pulse-register anchor)", "descriptors": [ "stiff-true-fold-creak", "pulse-register-anchor", "low-creaky-onset" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_false_fold_retract", "auto": false, "name": "Retracted false folds (open, clean, laugh-posture)", "descriptors": [ "false-fold-retracted-open", "laugh-posture-clean", "constriction-released" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "clean-belt" ] }, { "id": "voice_estill_false_fold_constrict_grit", "auto": false, "name": "Constricted false folds (grit / distortion overlay)", "descriptors": [ "false-fold-constricted-grit", "ventricular-distortion-overlay", "rasp-effect-on-core" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "rock", "metal", "blues-growl" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_speech_song", "surface": false, "name": "Speech-song spectrum position", "variants": [ { "id": "voice_pure_spoken_no_pitch", "name": "Pure spoken (no pitch organization)", "descriptors": [ "no-pitch-organization-speech", "speech-rhythm-only" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived" ] }, { "id": "voice_heightened_speech", "name": "Heightened speech (stylized intonation contours)", "descriptors": [ "heightened-speech-stylized-intonation", "theatrical-projection-no-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived" ] }, { "id": "voice_rhythmic_spoken_flow", "name": "Rhythmic spoken flow (no pitch target, rhythmic only)", "descriptors": [ "rhythmic-spoken-flow-no-pitch", "syncopated-speech-rhythm" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived" ], "canonical_tags": [ "hip-hop", "rap", "spoken-word" ] }, { "id": "voice_recitative_free_rhythm", "name": "Recitative (rhythmically free pitched speech)", "descriptors": [ "recitative-rhythmically-free-pitched-speech", "declamatory-free-rhythm" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "baroque", "opera" ] }, { "id": "voice_sprechgesang_notated", "name": "Sprechgesang (pitched speech-melody, song-leaning)", "descriptors": [ "notated-speech-melody", "pitch-carried-not-just-touched", "song-leaning-declamation", "sprechgesang-notated-approximate-pitch", "between-speech-and-song" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "modern-classical", "second-viennese-school", "wagnerian-declamation" ] }, { "id": "voice_ametrical_chant", "name": "Ametrical pitched chant (free-rhythm sustained tones)", "descriptors": [ "ametrical-pitched-chant-free-rhythm", "sustained-tones-free-rhythm" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "devotional", "sacred-traditional" ] }, { "id": "voice_metrical_chant", "name": "Metrical pitched chant (fixed-rhythm chant)", "descriptors": [ "metrical-pitched-chant-fixed-rhythm", "fixed-rhythm-chant-cycle" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "devotional", "sacred-traditional" ] }, { "id": "voice_syllabic_singing", "default": true, "name": "Syllabic singing (one note per syllable)", "descriptors": [ "one-note-per-syllable", "text-forward", "plain-direct-line", "syllabic-singing-one-note-per-syllable" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ] }, { "id": "voice_neumatic_singing", "name": "Neumatic singing (small note-groups per syllable)", "descriptors": [ "small-note-groups-per-syllable", "gently-florid", "text-still-legible", "neumatic-singing-small-groups-per-syllable" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ] }, { "id": "voice_melismatic_singing", "name": "Melismatic singing (long runs on one syllable)", "descriptors": [ "many-notes-per-syllable", "vowel-carried-runs", "florid-extended-line", "melismatic-singing-many-notes-per-syllable" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone", "melismatic" ] }, { "id": "voice_pure_vocalise", "name": "Pure vocalise (no text, vowel-only)", "descriptors": [ "pure-vocalise-no-text-vowel-only", "wordless-melodic-line" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "sustained-tone" ] }, { "id": "voice_non_lexical_vocable", "name": "Non-lexical vocables (meaningless syllables as music)", "descriptors": [ "meaningless-syllables-carrying-melody", "rhythm-forward-vocables", "consonant-attack-as-percussion", "non-lexical-vocable-rhythmic-syllables" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_sprechstimme_pitch_released", "auto": false, "name": "Sprechstimme (notated pitch touched then released, speech-dominant)", "descriptors": [ "pitch-touched-then-abandoned", "gliding-off-every-note", "speech-dominant-contour" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "second-viennese-school", "pierrot-lunaire", "expressionism-1912" ] }, { "id": "voice_toasting_deejay_chat", "auto": false, "name": "Toasting / deejay chat (pitched rhythmic chant over riddim)", "descriptors": [ "pitched-rhythmic-chat", "tonal-center-chanted-flow", "riddim-locked-delivery", "half-sung-half-spoken" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "jamaican-sound-system", "reggae", "dancehall", "1970s-onward" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_config", "surface": false, "name": "Ensemble arrangement", "variants": [ { "id": "voice_ensemble_solo_unaccompanied", "default": true, "name": "Solo unaccompanied", "descriptors": [ "solo-unaccompanied" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "lead", "lead-melody" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_solo_over_drone", "name": "Solo over instrumental drone", "descriptors": [ "solo-over-instrumental-drone" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "lead", "lead-melody", "drone-foundation" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_solo_over_choral_drone", "name": "Solo over vocal-choral drone", "descriptors": [ "solo-over-vocal-choral-drone" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "lead", "lead-melody", "drone-foundation" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tibetan-ritual", "georgian-three-voice-polyphony" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_solo_accompanied", "name": "Solo with instrumental accompaniment", "descriptors": [ "solo-with-instrumental-accompaniment" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "lead", "lead-melody" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_parallel_thirds", "name": "Parallel-thirds two-voice", "descriptors": [ "parallel-thirds-two-voice" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable" ], "canonical_tags": [ "andean", "appalachian", "doo-wop" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_parallel_fifths", "name": "Parallel-fifths two-voice", "descriptors": [ "parallel-fifths-two-voice" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_organum_4_5_8", "name": "Organum parallel-fourth-fifth-octave", "descriptors": [ "parallel-fourth-fifth-octave-organum" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable", "sacred-traditional" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_drone_plus_lead", "name": "Drone-plus-lead two-voice", "descriptors": [ "drone-plus-lead-two-voice" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "drone-foundation" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_hocket_two_voice", "name": "Interlocked hocket two-voice", "descriptors": [ "interlocked-hocket-two-voice" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "inuit-throat-singing", "aka-baka-polyphony" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_three_voice_polyphony", "name": "Three-voice polyphony (interweaving independent trio)", "descriptors": [ "three-independent-lines", "interweaving-trio-texture", "close-interval-friction", "cadence-convergence", "three-voice-polyphony-regional-canonical" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable", "ensemble" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sardinian-polyphony", "georgian-three-voice-polyphony", "corsican-paghjella", "bulgarian-diaphonic-womens", "georgian-trio", "balkan" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_four_plus_polyphony", "name": "Four-plus-voice polyphony (full-choir woven counterpoint)", "descriptors": [ "four-plus-independent-lines", "overlapping-staggered-entries", "woven-counterpoint", "full-choir-density", "four-and-more-voice-polyphony" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable", "ensemble" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sardinian-polyphony", "aka-baka-polyphony", "renaissance-polyphony", "sacred-choral" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_antiphonal_double_choir", "name": "Antiphonal double-choir (spatially opposed groups trading phrases)", "descriptors": [ "two-spatially-opposed-choirs", "phrase-trading-alternation", "echo-answer-effect", "massed-tutti-convergence", "antiphonal-double-choir-alternating" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable", "ensemble" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sacred-traditional", "venetian-polychoral", "cori-spezzati" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_call_response_leader_group", "name": "Single-leader call + group-response", "descriptors": [ "single-leader-group-response" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "call-response" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gospel", "worksong", "sub-saharan-tradition" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_responsorial_cantor", "name": "Responsorial cantor-congregation", "descriptors": [ "responsorial-cantor-congregation" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "call-response", "sacred-traditional" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_heterophonic", "name": "Heterophonic ensemble (one melody, individually varied — village-choir blur)", "descriptors": [ "same-melody-all-voices", "individual-ornament-divergence", "blurred-unison-shimmer", "non-aligned-onsets", "heterophonic-same-melody-variant-ornament" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ensemble" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gagaku", "gamelan", "middle-eastern", "village-choir", "gaelic-psalm", "middle-eastern-takht" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_hocket_distribution", "name": "Hocket interlocked single-note distribution across voices", "descriptors": [ "hocket-interlocked-single-note-distribution" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ensemble" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gamelan-vocal", "aka-baka-polyphony" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_dense_cluster_polyphony", "name": "Dense cluster polyphony (deliberate semitone/sub-semitone clusters)", "descriptors": [ "dense-cluster-polyphony-deliberate-second-seventh-ninth" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ensemble", "choir-blendable" ], "canonical_tags": [ "modernist-cluster", "bulgarian-diaphonic-womens" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_polyrhythmic_layered", "name": "Polyrhythmic vocal layering (independent cycles per voice)", "descriptors": [ "polyrhythmic-vocal-layering-independent-cycles" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ensemble" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sub-saharan-tradition", "aka-baka-polyphony" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_gang_vocal_unison", "name": "Gang-vocal unison-octave (multiple performers, deliberate non-tuned overlap)", "descriptors": [ "gang-vocal-unison-octave-non-tuned-overlap" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ensemble", "shouted" ], "canonical_tags": [ "hardcore", "punk" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_homophonic_block", "auto": false, "name": "Homophonic block-chord (all voices in one rhythm, chord-stacked)", "descriptors": [ "all-voices-same-rhythm", "block-chord-motion", "text-synchronized-declamation", "hymn-chorale-solidity" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable", "ensemble" ], "canonical_tags": [ "lutheran-chorale", "hymnody", "barbershop", "doo-wop" ] }, { "id": "voice_ensemble_round_canon", "auto": false, "name": "Round / canon (one melody at staggered entries)", "descriptors": [ "staggered-identical-entries", "self-overlapping-melody", "imitative-interlock", "cyclic-perpetual-texture" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable", "ensemble" ], "canonical_tags": [ "medieval-rota", "english-catch", "campfire-round" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_system", "surface": false, "name": "Ornament-system (cross-cultural ornament catalog)", "variants": [ { "id": "voice_ornament_none", "default": true, "name": "No specific ornament system", "descriptors": [ "no-specific-ornament-system" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_carnatic_gamaka", "name": "Carnatic gamaka catalog (kampita 1-3 semitone target, nokku above-press, jaaru glide, sphurita double-touch, ravai higher-touch, kandippu implied, andolanam slow-oscillation)", "descriptors": [ "carnatic-gamaka-kampita-nokku-jaaru-sphurita" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend", "ornamented", "shruti-inflected" ], "canonical_tags": [ "south-asian", "classical", "carnatic" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_hindustani_meend_gamak", "name": "Hindustani meend-gamak catalog (meend continuous-glide >100ms, gamak forceful-wide 200+cent oscillation, khatka cluster-grace, murki rapid-3-note-cluster ~150ms, zamzama chained-murki, krintan hammered-grace, andolan slow 100-cent oscillation)", "descriptors": [ "hindustani-meend-gamak-khatka-murki-zamzama-krintan-andolan" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend", "ornamented", "shruti-inflected" ], "canonical_tags": [ "south-asian", "classical", "hindustani" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_persian_tahrir", "name": "Persian tahrir mechanics (tekye single glottal-jump M1-M2 unit, bolboli extended chain, zinat pattern, multi-tekye long-interval pattern)", "descriptors": [ "persian-tahrir-tekye-bolboli-zinat" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented" ], "canonical_tags": [ "persian", "middle-eastern", "classical" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_arab_maqam_mawwal", "name": "Arab mawwāl + maqam ornament rules (improvised melismatic pre-metric, layali vocable, maqam modulation jins-change mid-phrase)", "descriptors": [ "arab-mawwal-layali-maqam-modulation" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend", "ornamented" ], "canonical_tags": [ "arabic", "middle-eastern", "classical" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_quranic_tajwid", "name": "Quranic tajwid pitch-and-duration rules (tahqiq slow-melismatic, tarteel measured, tadwir medium-tempo, hadr fast, madd vowel-elongation 2-4-6 counts, qalqalah bounce-articulation, ghunnah nasalization)", "descriptors": [ "quranic-tajwid-tahqiq-tarteel-madd-qalqalah-ghunnah" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "devotional", "sacred-traditional" ], "canonical_tags": [ "arabic", "middle-eastern", "devotional" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_bel_canto", "name": "Bel canto operatic ornaments (appoggiatura leaning-note-on-beat, mordente rapid-neighbor-note, gruppetto turn-figure, trillo rapid-pitch-reiteration 2-12 Hz, portamento laryngeal-glide, messa-di-voce crescendo-decrescendo-sustained, coloratura rapid-melismatic)", "descriptors": [ "bel-canto-appoggiatura-mordente-gruppetto-trillo-portamento-coloratura" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented", "classical-trained" ], "canonical_tags": [ "classical", "italian", "opera" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_flamenco_cante_jondo", "name": "Flamenco cante jondo (quejío sung-cry-onset, ayeo introductory-vocable, temple warm-up, melisma cante-jondo-extended, microtonal-flattening 30-60 cents, afilla roughened-voice, quiebro semitone-vibrato, tercio verse-melodic-unit)", "descriptors": [ "flamenco-quejio-ayeo-temple-afilla-quiebro-tercio" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented", "microtonal-bend" ], "canonical_tags": [ "flamenco", "iberian" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_pansori_sigimsae", "name": "Pansori sigimsae (yoseong pitch-oscillation, toeseong descending-off-glide, chuseong ascending-into-slide, jeonseong grace-note-attack, nonghyeon microtonal-bend, seongeum rough-pressed-target-timbre)", "descriptors": [ "pansori-yoseong-toeseong-chuseong-jeonseong-nonghyeon-seongeum" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented" ], "canonical_tags": [ "korean", "east-asian" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_jingju_role", "name": "Jingju role-type mechanism (laosheng da-sang chest-modal, xiaosheng register-break stylized, qingyi xiao-sang reinforced-falsetto, jing pressed-loud — larynx-elevated singer-formant absent per Sundberg 2012)", "descriptors": [ "jingju-da-sang-xiao-sang-larynx-elevated-singer-formant-absent" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented" ], "canonical_tags": [ "chinese-opera", "east-asian", "beijing-opera" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_yueju_cantonese", "name": "Cantonese yueju opera (pinghou flat-throat-modal, zihou reinforced-falsetto, dahou chest-high-pitch-rough)", "descriptors": [ "yueju-pinghou-zihou-dahou" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented" ], "canonical_tags": [ "cantonese-opera", "east-asian" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_sub_saharan_polyphonic", "name": "Sub-Saharan vocal ornament (aka yodel-mechanism-M1-M2 alternation, mande griot melisma extended, yoruba melisma tone-language-coupled, xhosa eefing rhythmic-percussion-vocal)", "descriptors": [ "sub-saharan-aka-mande-yoruba-xhosa-ornament" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sub-saharan-tradition", "griot-tradition", "aka-baka-polyphony" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_sami_yoik", "name": "Sami yoik (luohti circular-form, vocable non-lexical-repetition, glissando-vibrato figure, throaty-rumble onset, high-pitched-cry)", "descriptors": [ "sami-yoik-luohti-vocable-glissando-vibrato" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sami", "arctic" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_polynesian_falsetto", "name": "Polynesian (leo kiekie falsetto-break-octave-leap, glottal-stop rhythmic-okina, parallel-thirds himene-tarava)", "descriptors": [ "polynesian-leo-kiekie-okina-himene-tarava" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "pacific", "polynesian-himene-tarava" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_andean_huayno", "name": "Andean huayno/yaravi (falsetto-break cabeza-voice high-register, parallel-thirds quechua-aymara, microtonal-flatten andean-mode-third)", "descriptors": [ "andean-cabeza-voice-quechua-aymara-third-flatten" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "andean", "south-american" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_connemara_unaccompanied", "name": "Sean-nós ornament catalog (Connemara-style roll/casadh grace-clusters, melismatic free-rhythm line, glottal separation, nasal decoration)", "descriptors": [ "grace-note-cluster-rolls", "melismatic-free-rhythm", "glottal-stop-separation", "nasal-resonance-decoration", "connemara-unaccompanied-melismatic-grace-nasal" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "celtic", "irish-traditional", "sean-nos", "irish", "connemara", "gaelic" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_dhrupad_meend_andolan", "name": "Dhrupad meend + andolan (austere extended-glide + slow oscillation, pakhawaj-paired)", "descriptors": [ "dhrupad-meend-andolan-austere-extended-glide" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented", "devotional" ], "canonical_tags": [ "hindustani", "classical", "south-asian" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_fado_voltinha", "auto": false, "name": "Fado voltinha catalog (voltinha small-turn figures, phrase-end melisma, rubato note-stretching, mordent-glide inflection)", "descriptors": [ "voltinha-turn-figures", "phrase-end-melisma", "rubato-stretched-line", "mordent-glide-inflected" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented", "melismatic", "folk-tradition" ], "canonical_tags": [ "fado", "portuguese", "lisbon" ] }, { "id": "voice_ornament_gospel_runs", "auto": false, "name": "Gospel runs-and-riffs catalog (pentatonic run-cascade, chained riff-turns, trap-door descending run, blue-third melisma, squall accent)", "descriptors": [ "pentatonic-run-cascades", "chained-riff-turns", "trap-door-descending-run", "blue-third-inflected-melisma" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "ornamented", "melismatic", "blues-inflected", "call-response" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gospel", "pentecostal", "soul", "r-and-b" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_organization", "surface": false, "name": "Pitch organization (tuning + glide system)", "variants": [ { "id": "voice_pitch_equal_tempered_12", "default": true, "name": "Equal-tempered 12-tone fixed-pitch", "descriptors": [ "equal-tempered-12-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_just_intonation", "name": "Just intonation fixed-pitch (5-limit, beatless ratio-lock)", "descriptors": [ "just-ratio-locked", "beatless-pure-thirds", "chordal-ring-lock", "overtone-fused", "just-intonation-5-limit-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "period-performance" ], "canonical_tags": [ "barbershop", "early-music", "a-cappella" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_meantone_quarter_comma", "name": "Quarter-comma meantone (pure thirds, unequal key colors)", "descriptors": [ "pure-major-thirds", "narrowed-fifths", "calm-beatless-triads", "unequal-key-color", "quarter-comma-meantone-canonical-renaissance-early-baroque" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "period-performance", "classical-trained" ], "canonical_tags": [ "renaissance", "early-baroque", "period-performance" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_pythagorean", "name": "Pythagorean fifth-stacked (pure fifths, bright wide thirds)", "descriptors": [ "pure-fifth-stacked", "wide-bright-thirds", "hollow-open-fifth-ring", "keen-narrow-semitones", "pythagorean-fifth-stacked-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "sacred-traditional", "georgian-three-voice-polyphony", "medieval", "organum", "early-music" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_carnatic_22_shruti", "name": "Carnatic 22-shruti microtonal fixed-pitch", "descriptors": [ "carnatic-22-shruti-microtonal-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "shruti-inflected" ], "canonical_tags": [ "south-asian", "classical", "carnatic" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_arab_24_quartertone", "name": "Arab 24-quartertone maqam fixed-pitch", "descriptors": [ "arab-24-quartertone-maqam-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend" ], "canonical_tags": [ "arabic", "middle-eastern", "classical" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_persian_dastgah", "name": "Persian 17-dastgah koron-sori fixed-pitch", "descriptors": [ "persian-17-dastgah-koron-sori-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend" ], "canonical_tags": [ "persian", "middle-eastern", "classical" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_turkish_makam_53_comma", "name": "Turkish 53-comma makam fixed-pitch", "descriptors": [ "turkish-53-comma-makam-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend" ], "canonical_tags": [ "turkish", "middle-eastern" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_pelog_7", "name": "Pelog seven-tone (uneven wide-narrow steps, gamelan-matched)", "descriptors": [ "pelog-uneven-steps", "alternating-wide-narrow-intervals", "gamelan-matched-tuning", "dark-plaintive-color", "pelog-7-tone-indonesian-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gamelan", "indonesian", "javanese", "balinese" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_slendro_5", "name": "Slendro five-tone (near-equidistant, floating tonality)", "descriptors": [ "slendro-near-equidistant", "roughly-240-cent-steps", "floating-ambiguous-tonality", "gamelan-matched-tuning", "slendro-5-tone-indonesian-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "gamelan", "indonesian", "javanese" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_thai_7_equal_step", "name": "Thai seven-equal (171-cent even steps, blurred thirds)", "descriptors": [ "seven-equal-171-cent-steps", "evenly-spaced-interval-blur", "neither-major-nor-minor-thirds", "thai-7-equal-step-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "thai", "southeast-asian", "thai-classical", "piphat-mahori" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_ethiopian_qenet", "name": "Ethiopian qenet pentatonic modes (tizita, bati, ambassel, anchihoye)", "descriptors": [ "qenet-pentatonic-modes", "tizita-bati-ambassel-anchihoye", "uneven-pentatonic-gaps", "krar-masinqo-matched", "ethiopian-qenet-tetrachord-fixed-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "ethiopian", "east-african", "eritrean", "azmari" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_microtonal_glide_continuous", "name": "Microtonal continuous-glide laryngeal pitch", "descriptors": [ "microtonal-continuous-glide-laryngeal" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_sub_semitone_third_glide", "name": "Sub-semitone descending-glide on third scale degree (30-60 cents flatten)", "descriptors": [ "sub-semitone-descending-glide-third-degree", "microtonal-flattening-30-60-cents" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend", "blues-derived", "blues-inflected" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_scoop_up_300_cents", "name": "Scoop-up onset ~300 cents portamento", "descriptors": [ "scoop-up-300-cents-portamento-onset" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_fall_off_400_cents", "name": "Fall-off release ~400 cents portamento", "descriptors": [ "fall-off-400-cents-portamento-release" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_drone_overtone_harmonic_series", "name": "Drone-organized harmonic-series overtone selection", "descriptors": [ "drone-organized-harmonic-series-overtone-selection" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "drone-foundation", "sustained-tone" ], "canonical_tags": [ "tuvan", "mongolian", "overtone-tradition" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_tonal_language_constrained", "name": "Tonal-language syllable-tone-locked melodic contour", "descriptors": [ "tonal-language-syllable-tone-locked-melody" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "mandarin", "cantonese", "yoruba", "vietnamese", "thai" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_vedic_three_tone", "name": "Vedic three-tone udatta-anudatta-svarita pitch system", "descriptors": [ "vedic-udatta-anudatta-svarita-three-tone-pitch" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "devotional", "sacred-traditional" ], "canonical_tags": [ "south-asian", "vedic-chant" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_byzantine_72_moria", "auto": false, "name": "Byzantine 72-moria octoechos (unequal diatonic + chromatic genera)", "descriptors": [ "byzantine-72-moria-division", "unequal-diatonic-steps", "hard-chromatic-augmented-color", "ison-drone-referenced" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "devotional", "sacred-traditional", "drone-foundation" ], "canonical_tags": [ "byzantine-chant", "greek-orthodox", "medieval-modal" ] }, { "id": "voice_pitch_georgian_non_tempered", "auto": false, "name": "Georgian non-tempered triadic (pure-fifth anchored, neutral thirds)", "descriptors": [ "pure-fifth-anchored-chords", "neutral-third-shading", "near-equidistant-seconds", "non-tempered-triadic-lock" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "microtonal-bend", "choir-blendable" ], "canonical_tags": [ "georgian", "caucasus", "polyphonic-folk-chant" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_chain", "surface": false, "name": "Processing chain (ordered, recording-era constitutive)", "variants": [ { "id": "voice_processing_unprocessed", "default": true, "name": "Unprocessed natural-acoustic", "descriptors": [ "unprocessed-natural-acoustic" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_retune_0ms_hard_correction", "name": "Pitch-correction retune-speed 0ms hard-correction (Antares-canonical Auto-Tune-Effect)", "descriptors": [ "retune-speed-0ms-hard-correction-robot-effect" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "hip-hop", "rap", "modern-pop" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_retune_10_50ms_natural", "name": "Pitch-correction retune-speed 10-50ms natural-correction (Antares-canonical natural range)", "descriptors": [ "retune-speed-10-50ms-natural-correction-antares-canonical" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "modern-pop", "r&b", "commercial" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_retune_50_100ms_subtle", "name": "Pitch-correction retune-speed 50-100ms subtle-nudge (producer-convention)", "descriptors": [ "retune-speed-50-100ms-subtle-nudge-producer-convention" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_melodyne_microtuned", "name": "Melodyne note-by-note graphical microtuning", "descriptors": [ "melodyne-graphical-note-by-note-microtuned" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_vocoder_8_band", "name": "Vocoder 8-band classic resolution", "descriptors": [ "vocoder-8-band-classic" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "electronic", "1970s", "1980s" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_vocoder_16_band", "name": "Vocoder 16-band broadband", "descriptors": [ "vocoder-16-band-broadband" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "electronic" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_vocoder_32_band_carrier_saw", "name": "Vocoder 32-band high-resolution sawtooth-carrier", "descriptors": [ "vocoder-32-band-high-resolution-saw-carrier" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "electronic" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_talkbox", "name": "Talkbox (mouth-as-resonator electric-carrier chain)", "descriptors": [ "talkbox-mouth-resonator-electric-carrier" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "funk", "1970s", "1980s" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_formant_shifter_up_200_cents", "name": "Formant shifter +200 cents (chipmunk timbre)", "descriptors": [ "formant-shifter-up-200-cents-chipmunk" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_formant_shifter_down_300_cents", "name": "Formant shifter -300 cents (gravel timbre)", "descriptors": [ "formant-shifter-down-300-cents-gravel" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_harmonizer_diatonic_locked", "name": "Harmonizer scale-locked diatonic stack", "descriptors": [ "harmonizer-scale-locked-diatonic-stack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_harmonizer_ai_trained_stack", "name": "AI-trained harmonizer stack (timbre-matched choir-of-self)", "descriptors": [ "ai-timbre-matched-harmony-stack", "choir-of-self-realistic-voices", "phrase-tracked-generated-harmonies", "harmonizer-ai-trained-stack-mid-2020s" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "modern-pop", "2020s", "mid-2020s" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_telephone_eq_300_3000", "name": "Telephone-EQ 300-3000 Hz bandwidth filter", "descriptors": [ "telephone-eq-300-3000hz-bandwidth-filter" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_tube_saturation", "name": "Tube saturation soft-overdrive on voice", "descriptors": [ "tube-saturation-soft-overdrive-voice" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "vintage" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_tape_saturation", "name": "Tape saturation harmonic-thicken on voice", "descriptors": [ "tape-saturation-harmonic-thicken-voice" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "vintage" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_bitcrusher", "name": "Bit-crusher aliasing distortion on voice", "descriptors": [ "bitcrusher-aliasing-distortion-voice" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_plate_reverb_medium", "name": "Plate reverb medium-decay (vocal classic)", "descriptors": [ "plate-reverb-medium-decay-vocal-classic" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "vintage", "studio" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_hall_reverb_long", "name": "Hall reverb long-decay cinematic", "descriptors": [ "hall-reverb-long-decay-cinematic" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_gated_reverb", "name": "Gated reverb truncated-decay", "descriptors": [ "gated-reverb-truncated-decay" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1980s" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_shimmer_reverb_octave_up", "name": "Shimmer reverb octave-up tail", "descriptors": [ "shimmer-reverb-octave-up-tail" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_lo_fi_narrow_AM", "name": "Lo-fi narrow-band AM-radio filter", "descriptors": [ "lo-fi-narrow-band-AM-radio-filter" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_stutter_edit", "name": "Stutter-edit cut-as-instrument", "descriptors": [ "stutter-edit-cut-as-instrument" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "electronic", "idm" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_multiband_aggressive_broadcast", "name": "Multiband compression aggressive-broadcast (dense forward loudness, no dynamic air)", "descriptors": [ "dense-forward-loudness", "band-split-leveled-every-syllable", "no-dynamic-air", "multiband-compression-aggressive-broadcast-post-2010" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "modern-pop", "commercial", "post-2010", "commercial-pop-radio" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_multiband_transparent_master", "name": "Multiband compression transparent-master", "descriptors": [ "multiband-compression-transparent-master" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_sidechain_ducked_pump", "auto": false, "name": "Sidechain-ducked pumping (vocal keyed to the kick, rhythmic swell-back)", "descriptors": [ "sidechain-ducked-to-kick", "rhythmic-pump-swell", "beat-locked-level-breathing" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "2010s", "edm", "future-bass" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_reverse_reverb_preswell", "auto": false, "name": "Reverse-reverb pre-swell (reversed tail rising into the word onset)", "descriptors": [ "reversed-tail-pre-swell", "rising-into-onset", "ghost-inhale-before-word" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1960s-tape-flip", "dream-pop", "trap" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_megaphone_bullhorn", "auto": false, "name": "Megaphone / bullhorn (horn-loaded midrange honk, peaky mechanical cut)", "descriptors": [ "horn-loaded-midrange-honk", "peaky-resonant-cut", "paper-cone-rasp" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1920s", "pre-electric-crooner", "tom-waits" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_screwed_pitch_down_4_8_semitones", "auto": false, "name": "Screwed pitch-down (-4 to -8 semitones, slowed tape-speed drawl)", "descriptors": [ "pitched-down-4-8-semitones", "slowed-tape-speed-drawl", "syrup-slow-smeared" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1990s", "chopped-and-screwed", "houston-hip-hop" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_tape_delay_throw_phrase_end", "auto": false, "name": "Tape-delay throw (send opened on the phrase-end word, regenerating repeats)", "descriptors": [ "delay-throw-phrase-end-send", "regenerating-tape-repeats", "last-word-trailing-into-space" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "dub", "reggae", "modern-pop-mixing" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_spring_reverb_dub_send", "auto": false, "name": "Spring reverb (boingy metallic drip-tail, dub-console send)", "descriptors": [ "spring-reverb-metallic-drip", "boingy-flutter-tail", "dub-console-send" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1970s", "dub", "reggae" ] }, { "id": "voice_processing_slapback_tape_echo_80_140ms", "auto": false, "name": "Slapback tape echo (single 80-140ms repeat, no regeneration)", "descriptors": [ "slapback-single-repeat-80-140ms", "tape-echo-no-regeneration", "doubled-attack-thickened" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1950s", "sun-records", "rockabilly" ] } ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_stack", "surface": false, "name": "Multi-track / stack-as-instrument", "variants": [ { "id": "voice_multitrack_single_lead", "default": true, "name": "Single-lead single-track (no stacking)", "descriptors": [ "single-lead-single-track-no-stacking" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "lead", "lead-melody" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_octave_double_self", "name": "Single-performer octave-doubled stack", "descriptors": [ "single-performer-octave-doubled-stack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "doubled" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_unison_double_take", "name": "Single-performer unison-double recorded-take", "descriptors": [ "single-performer-unison-double-recorded-take" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "doubled" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_3_part_third_fifth", "name": "Lead-plus-third-fifth 3-part harmony stack", "descriptors": [ "lead-plus-third-fifth-harmony-stack-3-part" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_5_part_cluster", "name": "Lead-plus-dense-cluster 5-part stack", "descriptors": [ "lead-plus-dense-cluster-5-part-stack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_polychordal_stack", "name": "Polychordal stack (major-seven-nine-eleven)", "descriptors": [ "polychordal-stack-major-seven-nine-eleven" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_formant_shifted_double_stereo", "name": "Formant-shifted-double pitch-locked stereo-width", "descriptors": [ "formant-shifted-double-pitch-locked-stereo-width" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_chopped_sample_rhythmic_bed", "name": "Chopped-vocal-sample rhythmic-bed", "descriptors": [ "chopped-vocal-sample-rhythmic-bed" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_granular_texture", "name": "Granular-vocal texture time-stretched", "descriptors": [ "granular-vocal-texture-time-stretched" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_pitched_sample_melodic_bed", "name": "Pitched vocal-sample melodic-bed", "descriptors": [ "pitched-vocal-sample-melodic-bed" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_stab_percussive_trigger", "name": "Vocal-stab percussive-sample trigger", "descriptors": [ "vocal-stab-percussive-sample-trigger" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_mid_1960s_double_tracking_era", "name": "ADT / tape-offset unison double (phasey detimed halo)", "descriptors": [ "tape-offset-detimed-unison", "phasey-comb-filter-halo", "widened-smeared-center", "two-pass-double-blur", "mid-1960s-double-tracking-era-stack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1960s", "vintage", "beatles-era", "abbey-road-adt" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_late_1970s_thirds_fifths_octaves", "name": "Self-blended thirds-fifths-octaves overdub choir (tight-comped silk)", "descriptors": [ "thirds-fifths-octaves-voicing", "self-blended-overdub-choir", "tight-comped-attack-lock", "silken-unified-timbre", "late-1970s-thirds-fifths-octaves-stack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1970s", "vintage", "soft-rock", "disco", "elo-bee-gees-era" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_late_1980s_reverb_saturated_bus", "name": "Massed bus-glued stack drowned in gated/plate reverb (arena-scale wash)", "descriptors": [ "massed-bus-glued-blend", "gated-plate-reverb-drowned", "arena-scale-wash", "voices-smeared-into-one", "late-1980s-reverb-saturated-bus-stack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1980s", "arena-rock", "power-ballad" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_2000s_elastic_pitch_edited", "name": "Surgically time-and-pitch-aligned comp stack (zero-flam edit lock)", "descriptors": [ "elastic-pitch-time-snapped", "zero-flam-onset-lock", "airbrushed-uniform-takes", "grid-quantized-phrasing", "2000s-onward-elastic-pitch-edited-stack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "2000s", "modern-pop", "pro-tools-era", "commercial-pop-r-and-b" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_2010s_melodyne_microtuned", "name": "Cent-locked microtuned harmony stack (beatless glassy interval tuning)", "descriptors": [ "note-by-note-cent-locked-stack", "beatless-interval-tuning", "glassy-synthetic-sheen", "zero-drift-harmony-grid", "2010s-onward-melodyne-microtuned-stack" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "2010s", "modern-pop", "melodyne-era", "maximalist-pop" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_tape_loop_choir_wall", "auto": false, "name": "Massed tape-loop choir wall (sustained vowel loops, fader-played)", "descriptors": [ "massed-loop-choir-wall", "sustained-vowel-chord-pads", "fader-swelled-voices", "hazy-endless-sustain" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "choir-blendable" ], "canonical_tags": [ "1970s", "art-pop", "ambient" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_whisper_double_lead", "auto": false, "name": "Whisper-double over lead (unvoiced intimacy layer)", "descriptors": [ "unvoiced-whisper-shadow", "breath-texture-halo", "close-mic-intimacy-layer" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing", "doubled" ], "canonical_tags": [ "bedroom-pop", "dream-pop", "r-and-b" ] }, { "id": "voice_multitrack_adlib_response_lane", "auto": false, "name": "Ad-lib / echo-word response lane (punctuating second comp track)", "descriptors": [ "echo-word-punctuation", "off-lead-interjection-lane", "yeah-uh-tag-accents" ], "match_tokens": [ "speech-derived", "breathing" ], "canonical_tags": [ "hip-hop", "trap", "dancehall" ] } ] } ] }