{
  "id": "kpelle_woi_epic",
  "name": "Woi epic (Kpelle sung narrative, Liberia)",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Epic performance of the Kpelle, a Mande-speaking people of central Liberia and Guinea, in which a narrator-singer recounts episodes of the hero Woi, answered by a chorus and supported by instrumentalists. Ruth M. Stone recorded Kpelle music in Bong County, issued on Folkways as Music of the Kpelle of Liberia, and analysed the epic in Dried Millet Breaking (1988). A source-unspecified percussion card stands in for the accompaniment.",
  "recipe": "classic late-1980s woi epic, ballad Poetry, west African griot branch. narrative. credited auxiliary percussion. field recording. ORTF stereo pair, portable field-recorder pre. 24-bit digital.",
  "recipe_chars": 192,
  "score": 1.618,
  "config": {
    "traditions": [
      "kpelle_woi_epic"
    ],
    "instruments": [
      {
        "id": "voice",
        "slots": {
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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": "narrative_voice",
          "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_call_response_leader_group",
          "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": {
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          "voice_estill_quality": 0,
          "voice_speech_song": 0,
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          "voice_ornament_system": 0,
          "voice_pitch_organization": 0,
          "voice_processing_chain": 0,
          "voice_multitrack_stack": 0.1365,
          "voice_tessitura": 0
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "credited_auxiliary_percussion",
        "slots": {
          "credited_auxiliary_percussion_identity": "credited_auxiliary_percussion_source_unspecified"
        },
        "scores": {
          "credited_auxiliary_percussion_identity": 0
        }
      }
    ],
    "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"
      ],
      "credited_auxiliary_percussion": [
        "credited_auxiliary_percussion_identity"
      ]
    },
    "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": "narrative_voice",
      "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_call_response_leader_group",
      "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",
      "credited_auxiliary_percussion_identity": "credited_auxiliary_percussion_source_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"
  }
}