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  "id": "thiruvaachakam_shaivite",
  "name": "Thiruvaachakam (Tamil Shaivite hymns)",
  "family": "classical",
  "lineage": "Thiruvaachakam (\"Sacred Utterance\") canonical Tamil Shaivite devotional poetry composed in the ninth century by Manikkavachakar, comprising 51 hymns expressing intense personal-devotional anguish and longing for Shiva. The collection forms part of the Tirumurai canonical Tamil Shaivite scriptural corpus and is integral to liturgy at the Chidambaram Nataraja Temple and the broader Tamil Shaivite temple circuit. Performance follows strict Tamil cantillation tradition transmitted through hereditary Othuvar singer lineages. The popular saying \"Thiruvaachakathukku urugaar oru vaachakathukkum urugaar\" (\"those unmoved by Thiruvaachakam are unmoved by anything\") captures the corpus's emotional power.",
  "recipe": "classic East African modern thiruvaachakam, ritual Devotional, hindu branch, indigenous ritual devotional shipibo-conibo icaros healing songs mapuche tayil genealogical chant. extended whistle, breath veiled tone, slow rate, interlocked note trading. lalibela rock hewn church. ORTF stereo pair, portable field-recorder pre. 24-bit digital.",
  "recipe_chars": 340,
  "score": 204.33,
  "config": {
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      "thiruvaachakam_shaivite",
      "shipibo_icaros",
      "mapuche_tayil_ritual"
    ],
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          "voice_quality": "aspirated_voice",
          "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral",
          "voice_effort": "effort_moderate",
          "voice_vibrato": "slow_vibrato",
          "voice_articulation": "hocket_voice",
          "voice_microtone": "maqam_inflected",
          "voice_tradition": "polynesian_oli_tradition",
          "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_ingressive_paired",
          "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_opera",
          "voice_speech_song": "voice_sprechgesang_notated",
          "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_four_plus_polyphony",
          "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_quranic_tajwid",
          "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_meantone_quarter_comma",
          "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_harmonizer_ai_trained_stack",
          "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_2010s_melodyne_microtuned"
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    ],
    "room": "lalibela_rock_hewn_church",
    "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": "shruti_22",
    "aesthetic": null,
    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
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  "source": {
    "tuning": "shruti_22",
    "room": "lalibela_rock_hewn_church",
    "parts": {
      "voice_register": "chest_voice",
      "voice_quality": "opera_voice",
      "voice_speech_song": "voice_metrical_chant",
      "voice_tradition": "hindustani_dhrupad_tradition",
      "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_carnatic_22_shruti",
      "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_unprocessed",
      "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_solo_unaccompanied",
      "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_single_lead",
      "voice_microtone": "shruti_inflected",
      "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_dhrupad_meend_andolan",
      "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_opera",
      "voice_vibrato": "fast_vibrato",
      "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_single_source"
    },
    "chain_mic": "condenser_sdc",
    "chain_pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
    "chain_medium": "digital_high",
    "chain_console": "clean"
  }
}