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Katadjait
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| Sound recording, song and game; Katadjait throat singing performed by Evie Mark and Sarah Beaulne, of Inuit Culture, as part of the welcome programme, The Sound of the North, in the Big Top at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 7th July 2000. | |
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| Introduction by David Ambrose to festival and to performers Evie Mark and Sarah Beaulne, followed by introduction to performance and a performance of inuit throat singing. | |
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| Throat singing has become a well-known form of Inuit music, usually performed by two women. Its origins lie in a game, the aim of which is to imitate the sounds of nature. The singers stand face to face, holding eachs other's elbows. It helps if one singer is taller than the other. Each singer alternately repeats a different sound in a fast rhythm creating a 'hocket'. The overtones of each singer's sounds are caught and given harmonic resonance in the other singer's mouth. The low pitched rythmic sound that is the trademark of throat singing, capture the sounds made by the different birds, animals and natural phenomena. Sometimes throat singing can be a contest to see who can sing the longest. It often ends in laughter. Some women are able to throat sing by themselves, using a large bowl or kettle held near the singer's mouth to give resonance. Like the Sami Yoik, Inuit throat singing is a uniquely oral tradition, with few words and much sound. The Inuit people have developed an acute sense of listening, and throat singing paints sound pictures of the tundra, giving brief glimpses of arctic life. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| language:- | Inuktitut |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 4 minutes, 36 seconds |
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| Beyond the Border Festival was founded in 1993 by Ben Haggarty, Artistic Director of the Crick Crack Club, and David Ambrose, the then Director of St Donats Arts Centre, Wales. The Festival was founded as The Beyond the Border International Festival of Storytelling and Epic Singing, but became known simply as Beyond the Border. The festival ran from 1993 to 2006 co-directed by the two founders: with Ben Haggarty programming storytellers and David Ambrose programming musicians. Since 2007 the festival has been directed by David Ambrose. The festival is a weekend event running on the first weekend of July annually; attracting around 2,500 people from across Britain and from overseas. The festival is sited at St Donats Arts Centre and in the grounds of St Donats Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan on the South Coast of Wales. Beyond the Border was initiated as part of the UK Year of Literature in 1995. The successful bid submitted by Academi Wales, prominently featured a storytelling festival. The original Director of the UK Year of Literature was Maura Dooley, who had been at the South Bank Centre in London when Ben Haggarty ran the Third International Storytelling Festival there in 1989. Maura Dooley supported the proposal brought to her by Ben Haggarty and David Ambrose to hold an International festival and series of summer schools at St Donats Castle and to begin Beyond the Border in 1993 in order to build an audience and a core of Wales-based artists for the Year of Literature in 1995. However before the plan could be implemented Maura Dooley resigned from her post (the position was later taken by Sean Dorran). Despite this, St Donats Arts Centre was committed to the festival and Beyond the Border was launched in July 1993. The 1993, 1994 and 1995 festivals were accompanied by summer schools, which produced a number of storytellers including Megan Lloyd, Francis Maxey, Richard Berry and Michael Harvey. | |
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throat singer; singer: Evie Mark female / Canadian / Inuit |
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throat singer; singer: Sarah Beaulne female / Canadian / Inuit |
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Master of Ceremonies; Festival Co-Director: David
Ambrose male / British / occupation Director of St Donats Arts Centre |
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Quebec
Inuit |
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| festival programme | |
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| Evie Mark and Sarah Beaulne | |
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Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose |
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administrator: St Donats Arts Centre |
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St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art
Centre: Big Top
07 Jul 2000 festival: Beyond the Border Festival The Sound of the North Wind |
| gift from:- |
St Donats Arts Centre |
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