{
  "id": "manha_afro_sri_lankan",
  "name": "Manha (Afro-Sri Lankan Kaffir song)",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Song and dance of the Afro-Sri Lankan (Kaffir) community of Sirambiyadiya near Puttalam, descendants of Africans brought to the island in the colonial period. Their manha (manja) songs are sung in Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole as polyrhythmic music for voices and percussion; a documented ensemble used two dholak drums, a tambourine, metal spoons, coconut shells on a wooden box and an empty bottle with coins. The related kaffringha dance-song passed into Sinhala popular music and baila. Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya has documented the community's songs.",
  "recipe": "classic modern manha, groove Percussion. group vocals, live take. dholak, tambourine orch, spoons metal spoons. field recording. ORTF stereo pair, portable field-recorder pre. 24-bit digital.",
  "recipe_chars": 191,
  "score": 5.887,
  "config": {
    "traditions": [
      "manha_afro_sri_lankan"
    ],
    "instruments": [
      {
        "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_live_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_live_ensemble",
          "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": 1.69,
          "voice_ornament_system": 0,
          "voice_pitch_organization": 0,
          "voice_processing_chain": 0.0315,
          "voice_multitrack_stack": 1.3,
          "voice_tessitura": 0
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "dholak",
        "slots": {
          "dholak_use": "dholak_folk_song",
          "dholak_construction": "dholak_mango",
          "dholak_head": "dholak_goat_skin_canonical",
          "dholak_tensioning": "dholak_rope_tuning"
        },
        "scores": {
          "dholak_use": 0.3045,
          "dholak_construction": -0.05,
          "dholak_head": 0,
          "dholak_tensioning": 0
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "tambourine_orch",
        "slots": {
          "tambourine_orch_jingle": "tambourine_orch_brass",
          "tambourine_orch_context": "tambourine_orch_pop"
        },
        "scores": {
          "tambourine_orch_jingle": -0.035,
          "tambourine_orch_context": -0.035
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "spoons",
        "slots": {
          "spoons_material": "spoons_metal",
          "spoons_playing": "spoons_paired_hand"
        },
        "scores": {
          "spoons_material": 2.3,
          "spoons_playing": 0.0315
        }
      }
    ],
    "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"
      ],
      "dholak": [
        "dholak_use",
        "dholak_construction",
        "dholak_head",
        "dholak_tensioning"
      ],
      "tambourine_orch": [
        "tambourine_orch_jingle",
        "tambourine_orch_context"
      ],
      "spoons": [
        "spoons_material",
        "spoons_playing"
      ]
    },
    "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_live_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_live_ensemble",
      "voice_tessitura": "voice_tessitura_source_unspecified",
      "dholak_use": "dholak_folk_song",
      "dholak_construction": "dholak_mango",
      "dholak_head": "dholak_goat_skin_canonical",
      "dholak_tensioning": "dholak_rope_tuning",
      "tambourine_orch_jingle": "tambourine_orch_brass",
      "tambourine_orch_context": "tambourine_orch_pop",
      "spoons_material": "spoons_metal",
      "spoons_playing": "spoons_paired_hand"
    },
    "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"
  }
}