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  "id": "theyyam_thottam",
  "name": "Theyyam thottam (north Malabar ritual invocation song)",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Theyyam is the ritual worship of north Malabar in Kerala, in which a performer from a hereditary community such as the Vannan, Malayan or Velan is costumed and embodies a deity at village shrines (kavu) during the festival season. The thottam, the invocatory song narrating the deity's story, is sung by the performer and his assistants before the deity appears, accompanied by chenda drums, ilathalam cymbals and the kuzhal shawm.",
  "recipe": "classic modern theyyam thottam, ritual Devotional, hindu branch. ritual jackwood shell layered cowhide canonical kerala chenda, elathalam, kuzhal. field recording. ORTF stereo pair, portable field-recorder pre. 24-bit digital.",
  "recipe_chars": 226,
  "score": 6.632,
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          "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"
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        "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"
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      "chenda": [
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        "chenda_repertoire",
        "chenda_construction"
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      "elathalam": [
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      "kuzhal": [
        "kuzhal_form",
        "kuzhal_style"
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    },
    "room": "field_recording",
    "archetype": "arch_ethnographic_field_digital",
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      "pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
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      "medium": "digital_high"
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    "tuning": "aural_relative",
    "aesthetic": null,
    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
  },
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    "tuning": "aural_relative",
    "room": "field_recording",
    "parts": {
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      "voice_quality": "voice_quality_source_unspecified",
      "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral",
      "voice_effort": "effort_projected",
      "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_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",
      "chenda_form": "chenda_uruttu",
      "chenda_repertoire": "chenda_ritual_theatre",
      "chenda_construction": "chenda_jackwood_cowhide",
      "elathalam_stroke": "elathalam_closed",
      "elathalam_ensemble": "elathalam_melam",
      "kuzhal_form": "kuzhal_short",
      "kuzhal_style": "kuzhal_melam"
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    "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"
  }
}