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  "id": "maasai_adumu_olaranyani",
  "name": "Maasai adumu warrior jumping-song",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Maasai East African pastoral vocal tradition of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania (Kajiado, Narok, Ngorongoro, Serengeti boundary regions). Performance centers on the eunoto warrior-graduation ceremony and adumu jumping-dance: young moran (warriors) in a competitive circle, each leaping vertically to maximum height while the surrounding warriors sing a polyrhythmic guttural-vocal pattern of pitched grunt-and-throat-call accompanied by hyper-rapid breath-and-tongue-clicking and the rhythmic call-and-response of the olaranyani song-leader. No melodic instrument tradition — vocal-only, with the song-leader's melodic line answered by the warrior chorus in unison-or-octave-leap configuration with characteristic vocal-rasp and chest-voice projection. Naomi Kipury's 1983 ethnographic collection (Oral Literature of the Maasai, East African Educational Publishers, Nairobi) and the 2001-2003 Smithsonian Maasai Field Recordings (Daniel Johnson / Simon Saitoti) provide the principal documentation. Repertoire functions span warrior-formation cycles, cattle-praise, ilkipoot-elder oratorical-rhetorical cycles, women's parallel choral repertoire (lipsmacking eunoto-women's songs), and warrior-mourning. Distinguished from neighboring Sukuma and Kikuyu vocal traditions by Maasai's exclusive vocal-only (no instrument) configuration and characteristic guttural-rasp male-warrior projection; distinguished from Samburu (a closely-related Nilotic group) by Maasai's adumu-jumping-as-primary-performance-architecture.",
  "recipe": "classic East African 2001-2003 maasai adumu warrior jumping-song, ritual Devotional, indigenous branch, vocal drone modal karachay-balkar song estonian setu leelo polyphonic song. vocal fry, breath veiled tone, straight note core, interlocked note trading. maasai manyatta outdoor. ORTF stereo pair, portable field-recorder pre. 24-bit digital.",
  "recipe_chars": 344,
  "score": 269.055,
  "config": {
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      "maasai_adumu_olaranyani",
      "karachay_balkar_song",
      "estonian_setu_leelo"
    ],
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          "voice_quality": "aspirated_voice",
          "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral",
          "voice_effort": "effort_moderate",
          "voice_vibrato": "terminal_vibrato",
          "voice_articulation": "hocket_voice",
          "voice_microtone": "maqam_inflected",
          "voice_tradition": "scottish_gaelic_taladh_tradition",
          "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_M0_pulse_borrowed",
          "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_nasal_twang",
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          "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_four_plus_polyphony",
          "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_quranic_tajwid",
          "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_drone_overtone_harmonic_series",
          "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_plate_reverb_medium",
          "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_pitched_sample_melodic_bed"
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    ],
    "room": "maasai_manyatta_outdoor",
    "archetype": "arch_ethnographic_field_digital",
    "inline_chain": {
      "mic": "condenser_sdc",
      "pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
      "console": "clean",
      "comp": null,
      "eq": null,
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "digital_high"
    },
    "tuning": "twelve_tet",
    "aesthetic": null,
    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
  },
  "source": {
    "tuning": "twelve_tet",
    "room": "maasai_manyatta_outdoor",
    "parts": {
      "voice_register": "chest_voice",
      "voice_quality": "praise_voice",
      "voice_speech_song": "voice_syllabic_singing",
      "voice_tradition": "yoruba_tonal_vocal_tradition",
      "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_equal_tempered_12",
      "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_unprocessed",
      "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_solo_unaccompanied",
      "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_single_lead",
      "voice_microtone": "tempered_voice",
      "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_sub_saharan_polyphonic",
      "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_speech",
      "voice_vibrato": "straight_tone",
      "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_single_source"
    },
    "chain_mic": "condenser_sdc",
    "chain_pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
    "chain_medium": "digital_high",
    "chain_console": "clean"
  }
}