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Conversation in Jokha Tenyidie

Description: A conversation with a Jokha grandmother in Jokha Tenyidie, prompted by her daughters in Jokha and the collector in Kewhi Tenyidie. The informant describes briefly how they moved from one place to another, got married and setteld in Kohima. Then they talked about going to the church the morning of the recording.
Date: January 7, 2024
Duration: 3 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Savio Meyase
Partner: UNT College of Information

Story in Jokha Tenyidie

Description: This is the recording of a Jokha grandmother in Jokha Tenyidie narrating a traditional story. The story tells about a cunning ant who gets a gaur and goes about bragging to other animals.
Date: January 14, 2024
Duration: 4 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Savio Meyase
Partner: UNT College of Information

Story: Meruno mu Teshuno Jo (Kiwe Tenyidie)

Description: A traditional story from Kigwema told in Kiwe Tenyidie. This story is about a humble son who solves the king's riddles and wins the hand of the princess.
Date: January 18, 2024
Duration: 14 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Savio Meyase
Partner: UNT College of Information

Story in Kiwe Tenyidie

Description: A traditional story from Kigwema told in Kiwe Tenyidie. This story narrates the origin of a man turning into a monkey.
Date: January 18, 2024
Duration: 1 minute 41 seconds
Creator: Savio Meyase
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of Jokha words and in target sentence

Description: Wordlist of various words in Jokha Tenyidie, along with the words elicitated in the target sentence "Zhovi said X". The wordlist is compiled by the creator and is a curated version of the Leipzig-Jakarta List.
Date: January 15, 2024
Duration: 5 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Savio Meyase
Partner: UNT College of Information

Cithare

Description: Recording of Claude Jordan's Cithare. Work made up of 3 movements, whose basic material is fragments, samples taken from a traditional instrument frequently used in German-speaking Switzerland: the "Hackbret" or "Citre". Much of the sound processing has been done around transposition and reverse playback bringing an unusually resonant and percussive aspect of the original instrument.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 8 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Jordan, Claude, 1954-
Partner: UNT Music Library

S

Description: Recording of Mihael Paš' "S". Piece included voice, gunfire, white noise, and more.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Paš, Mihael, 1970 or 1971-2015
Partner: UNT Music Library

Fried Rice, Curried Chip and a Diet Coke

Description: Recording of Karen Power's "Fried Rice, Curried Chip and a Diet Coke." Piece includes synthesized vocal samples, accompanied by drone-like synthesizer sounds. Reverse and speed affects are employed on the samples.
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Date: 2008
Duration: 11 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Power, Karen
Partner: UNT Music Library

The curse of border vacuums

Description: Recording of The curse of border vacuums. This work uses MAX which send information to MIDI internally to sample cell and externally to a sound processor (SPX-90), which effects incoming FM radio stations.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 8 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Peebles, Sarah
Partner: UNT Music Library

About the origin of Jokha in Jokha Tenyidie

Description: This is the recording of a Jokha grandmother in Jokha Tenyidie describing the origins of the word 'Jokha'.
Date: January 14, 2024
Duration: 1 minute 04 seconds
Creator: Savio Meyase
Partner: UNT College of Information

About the origin of Kiwe (in Kiwe Tenyidie)

Description: This is the recording on the origin of the name Kiwe, in Kiwe Tenyidie, by a native villager of Kigwema. (The informant points out that this might not necessarily be the generally accepted theory.)
Date: January 18, 2024
Duration: 50 seconds
Creator: Savio Meyase
Partner: UNT College of Information

Ayir ka sungdong den meimteba

Description: The story "Ayir ka sungdong den meimteba" is an Ao Folk tale about a girl who falls deeply in love with a boy who is actually a tree. He transforms into a human (male) only at night and visits the girl every night in the tsüke (a place where unmarried women sleep). In the story, the boy was handsome and had an appearance which could make him stand out in the crowd; he was tall and muscular. Eventually, the girl got attracted to his charms and fell deeply in love with him. The boy only appeared … more
Date: August 15, 2024
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Tiajungla
Partner: UNT College of Information
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