{
  "id": "altai_kai_epic",
  "name": "Kai (Altai throat-sung epic)",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Epic singing of the Altai people of the Altai Republic, in which a kaichi performs heroic epics such as Maadai-Kara in kai, a low, guttural throat-singing voice, accompanying himself on the two-string topshur plucked lute, represented here by the two-string dombyra card. Epic performances could last through the night, and the tradition was recorded from leading kaichi in the twentieth century and continues among younger performers.",
  "recipe": "classic modern kai, ballad Poetry. throat singing voice, dombyra. field recording. ORTF stereo pair, portable field-recorder pre. 24-bit digital.",
  "recipe_chars": 145,
  "score": 1.13,
  "config": {
    "traditions": [
      "altai_kai_epic"
    ],
    "instruments": [
      {
        "id": "throat_singing_voice",
        "slots": {
          "throat_mechanism_root": "throat_mechanism_ventricular_subharmonic_70_100Hz",
          "throat_overtone_target_region": "throat_overtone_target_none",
          "throat_singing_voice_region": "throat_singing_voice_central_asian_steppe"
        },
        "scores": {
          "throat_mechanism_root": 0.39,
          "throat_overtone_target_region": 0,
          "throat_singing_voice_region": 0
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "dombyra",
        "slots": {
          "dombyra_form": "dombyra_western",
          "dombyra_style": "dombyra_terme",
          "dombyra_strings": "dutar_strings_unspecified"
        },
        "scores": {
          "dombyra_form": 0.19500000000000003,
          "dombyra_style": 0.19500000000000003,
          "dombyra_strings": 0
        }
      }
    ],
    "pinned": {
      "throat_singing_voice": [
        "throat_mechanism_root",
        "throat_overtone_target_region",
        "throat_singing_voice_region"
      ],
      "dombyra": [
        "dombyra_form",
        "dombyra_style",
        "dombyra_strings"
      ]
    },
    "room": "field_recording",
    "archetype": "arch_ethnographic_field_digital",
    "inline_chain": {
      "mic": "mic_pair_ortf",
      "pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
      "console": "clean",
      "comp": "comp_none",
      "eq": "eq_none",
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "digital_high"
    },
    "tuning": "aural_relative",
    "aesthetic": null,
    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
  },
  "source": {
    "tuning": "aural_relative",
    "room": "field_recording",
    "parts": {
      "throat_mechanism_root": "throat_mechanism_ventricular_subharmonic_70_100Hz",
      "throat_overtone_target_region": "throat_overtone_target_none",
      "throat_singing_voice_region": "throat_singing_voice_central_asian_steppe",
      "dombyra_form": "dombyra_western",
      "dombyra_style": "dombyra_terme",
      "dombyra_strings": "dutar_strings_unspecified"
    },
    "pin_parts": true,
    "chain_mic": "mic_pair_ortf",
    "chain_pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
    "chain_comp": "comp_none",
    "chain_eq": "eq_none",
    "chain_medium": "digital_high",
    "chain_console": "clean"
  }
}