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Katadjait
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Sound recording, song and game; Katadjait
throat singing, from the Inuit tradition, performed by Nellie
Echalook and Mary Iqualluk as part of the programme Inuit Throat
Singers and Gayle Ross, in the Main Tent at the Beyond the Border
Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan,
Wales, 6th July 1996.
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Introduction to Inuit throat singers Nellie
Echalook and Mary Iqualluk, by Belgium Ethnomusicologist Etienne
Bours, followed by four sessions of 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:-
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adult
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language:-
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Inuktitut
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recording quality
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condition:-
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good
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completeness:-
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complete
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duration:-
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0 hours, 10 minutes, 9 seconds
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Performing in programme Inuit Throat Singers and Gayle Ross were
Gayle Ross, Nellie Echalook and Mary Iqualluk. Belgium
ethnomusicologist Etienne Bours was also present on stage.
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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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singing game:-
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throat singer; singer: Mary Iqualluk
female / Canadian / Inuit
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singing game:-
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throat singer; singer: Nellie Echalook
female / Canadian / Inuit
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singing game:-
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translator: Etienne Bours
male / Belgium / occupation ethnomusicologist
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origin:-
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Inuit
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Nellie Echalook and Mary Iqualluk
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Image of the performance showing Gayle Ross, Nellie Echalook and
Mary Iqualluk
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Festival programme
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Click to enlarge images
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associated:-
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storyteller: Gayle Ross
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programming:-
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Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty
Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose
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administration:-
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administrator: St Donats Arts Centre
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singing game:-
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St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art
Centre: Main Tent
06 Jul 1996
festival: Beyond the Border Festival
Inuit Throat Singers and Gayle Ross
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gift from:-
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St Donats Arts Centre
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© The London Centre for International Storytelling:
2007