{
  "id": "karachay_balkar_song",
  "name": "Karachay-Balkar song (north-central Caucasus)",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Song tradition of the Turkic-speaking Karachay and Balkar peoples of Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria. Many songs set a soloist against a male chorus singing a sustained lower part, with the refrain word orayda giving its name to a class of songs, and instruments include the bowed kyl-kobuz, represented here by the neighbouring Circassian bowed-fiddle card, and the diatonic accordion. The repertoire is documented in Melodiya's North Caucasus folk series.",
  "recipe": "classic modern karachay-balkar song, drone Modal, vocal branch. solo over vocal choral drone. melodic bowed song accompaniment shichepshin, reedy mountain toned garmon. field recording. ORTF stereo pair, portable field-recorder pre. 24-bit digital.",
  "recipe_chars": 248,
  "score": 20.003,
  "config": {
    "traditions": [
      "karachay_balkar_song"
    ],
    "instruments": [
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        "id": "voice",
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          "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_over_choral_drone",
          "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_live_ensemble",
          "voice_tessitura": "voice_tessitura_source_unspecified"
        },
        "scores": {
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          "voice_microtone": 0,
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          "voice_estill_quality": 0,
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          "voice_multitrack_stack": 0.441,
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      },
      {
        "id": "shichepshin",
        "slots": {
          "bowed_technique": "bowed_local_song_melody",
          "shichepshin_form": "shichepshin_two",
          "shichepshin_style": "shichepshin_epic",
          "shichepshin_strings": "dutar_strings_unspecified"
        },
        "scores": {
          "bowed_technique": 5.4745,
          "shichepshin_form": 0.168,
          "shichepshin_style": 2.34,
          "shichepshin_strings": 0
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "garmon",
        "slots": {
          "free_reed_technique": "free_reed_folk_first_position",
          "garmon_regional_form": "garmon_regional_form_ossetian_pshine",
          "garmon_performance_setting": "garmon_performance_setting_folk_song",
          "garmon_reed_voicing": "garmon_reed_voicing_dry_steel"
        },
        "scores": {
          "free_reed_technique": 2.4630000000000005,
          "garmon_regional_form": 2.555,
          "garmon_performance_setting": 1.45,
          "garmon_reed_voicing": -0.1
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      }
    ],
    "pinned": {
      "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"
      ],
      "shichepshin": [
        "bowed_technique",
        "shichepshin_form",
        "shichepshin_style",
        "shichepshin_strings"
      ],
      "garmon": [
        "free_reed_technique",
        "garmon_regional_form",
        "garmon_performance_setting",
        "garmon_reed_voicing"
      ]
    },
    "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": {
      "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_over_choral_drone",
      "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_live_ensemble",
      "voice_tessitura": "voice_tessitura_source_unspecified",
      "bowed_technique": "bowed_local_song_melody",
      "shichepshin_form": "shichepshin_two",
      "shichepshin_style": "shichepshin_epic",
      "shichepshin_strings": "dutar_strings_unspecified",
      "free_reed_technique": "free_reed_folk_first_position",
      "garmon_regional_form": "garmon_regional_form_ossetian_pshine",
      "garmon_performance_setting": "garmon_performance_setting_folk_song",
      "garmon_reed_voicing": "garmon_reed_voicing_dry_steel"
    },
    "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"
  }
}