{
  "id": "dagara_gyil_funeral",
  "name": "Dagara gyil funeral music (Lawra, Upper West)",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Funeral music of the Dagara (Dagaaba) and neighbouring Lobi of Ghana's Upper West Region and adjoining Burkina Faso, played on the gyil, a pentatonic xylophone with gourd resonators whose membranes add a buzzing timbre. At funerals a pair of gyils plays with the kuor calabash drum alongside sung laments; the gyil also serves recreational dances such as bewaa. A generic membrane-drum card stands in for the kuor.",
  "recipe": "classic modern dagara gyil funeral music, funeral Lament. solo with instrumental accompaniment, single lead single track no stacking. fourteen key funeral voiced paired spider silk calabash gyil, membrane drum pulse resonant acoustic membrane drum. field recording. ORTF stereo pair, portable field-recorder pre. 24-bit digital.",
  "recipe_chars": 328,
  "score": 18.166,
  "config": {
    "traditions": [
      "dagara_gyil_funeral"
    ],
    "instruments": [
      {
        "id": "gyil",
        "slots": {
          "gyil_form": "gyil_dagara_kogyil",
          "gyil_repertoire": "gyil_bine_funeral",
          "gyil_keys_membranes": "gyil_liga_spider_silk"
        },
        "scores": {
          "gyil_form": 4.55,
          "gyil_repertoire": 2.6,
          "gyil_keys_membranes": 1.3
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "voice",
        "slots": {
          "voice_register": "voice_register_source_unspecified",
          "voice_quality": "voice_quality_source_unspecified",
          "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral",
          "voice_effort": "effort_moderate",
          "voice_vibrato": "voice_vibrato_local_unspecified",
          "voice_articulation": "voice_articulation_source_unspecified",
          "voice_microtone": "voice_microtone_local_unspecified",
          "voice_tradition": "voice_tradition_source_unspecified",
          "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_compound_source_unspecified",
          "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_quality_source_unspecified",
          "voice_speech_song": "voice_speech_song_local_unspecified",
          "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_solo_accompanied",
          "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_system_source_unspecified",
          "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_source_unspecified",
          "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_unprocessed",
          "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_single_lead",
          "voice_tessitura": "voice_tessitura_source_unspecified"
        },
        "scores": {
          "voice_register": 0,
          "voice_quality": 0,
          "voice_vocal_tract": 0,
          "voice_effort": 0,
          "voice_vibrato": 0,
          "voice_articulation": 0,
          "voice_microtone": 0,
          "voice_tradition": 0,
          "voice_mechanism_compound": 0,
          "voice_estill_quality": 0,
          "voice_speech_song": 0,
          "voice_ensemble_config": 2.6,
          "voice_ornament_system": 0,
          "voice_pitch_organization": 0,
          "voice_processing_chain": 0,
          "voice_multitrack_stack": 0.5225,
          "voice_tessitura": 0
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "acoustic_membrane_drum",
        "slots": {
          "acoustic_membrane_drum_form": "acoustic_membrane_drum_form_unspecified",
          "acoustic_membrane_drum_gesture": "acoustic_membrane_drum_gesture_resonant"
        },
        "scores": {
          "acoustic_membrane_drum_form": 3.6342499999999998,
          "acoustic_membrane_drum_gesture": 2.60925
        }
      }
    ],
    "pinned": {
      "gyil": [
        "gyil_form",
        "gyil_repertoire",
        "gyil_keys_membranes"
      ],
      "voice": [
        "voice_register",
        "voice_quality",
        "voice_vocal_tract",
        "voice_effort",
        "voice_vibrato",
        "voice_articulation",
        "voice_microtone",
        "voice_tradition",
        "voice_mechanism_compound",
        "voice_estill_quality",
        "voice_speech_song",
        "voice_ensemble_config",
        "voice_ornament_system",
        "voice_pitch_organization",
        "voice_processing_chain",
        "voice_multitrack_stack",
        "voice_tessitura"
      ],
      "acoustic_membrane_drum": [
        "acoustic_membrane_drum_form",
        "acoustic_membrane_drum_gesture"
      ]
    },
    "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": {
      "gyil_form": "gyil_dagara_kogyil",
      "gyil_repertoire": "gyil_bine_funeral",
      "gyil_keys_membranes": "gyil_liga_spider_silk",
      "voice_register": "voice_register_source_unspecified",
      "voice_quality": "voice_quality_source_unspecified",
      "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral",
      "voice_effort": "effort_moderate",
      "voice_vibrato": "voice_vibrato_local_unspecified",
      "voice_articulation": "voice_articulation_source_unspecified",
      "voice_microtone": "voice_microtone_local_unspecified",
      "voice_tradition": "voice_tradition_source_unspecified",
      "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_compound_source_unspecified",
      "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_quality_source_unspecified",
      "voice_speech_song": "voice_speech_song_local_unspecified",
      "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_solo_accompanied",
      "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_system_source_unspecified",
      "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_source_unspecified",
      "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_unprocessed",
      "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_single_lead",
      "voice_tessitura": "voice_tessitura_source_unspecified",
      "acoustic_membrane_drum_form": "acoustic_membrane_drum_form_unspecified",
      "acoustic_membrane_drum_gesture": "acoustic_membrane_drum_gesture_resonant"
    },
    "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"
  }
}