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	Inuit vocal games
		Katajjaq is basically constructed from repeated motifs and the succession of chosen morphemes, when they have a meaning, does not seem to follow a narrative logic.
		Katajjaq consists of the repetition of a motif (for example hamma) caracterised by a specific intonation contour and a pattern based on the alternation of voiced/un-voiced, breathed-in/breathed-out sounds.
		Katajjaq was or is done in all kinds of different occasions: anytime during the day, in any season, for sheer pleasure, to put babies to sleep or upon returning from the hunt, in the qaggi (ceremonial illu), in the form of team games, during extensive travels, or integrated within other series of games.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001711 (1103 words)

	inuit music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Traditional Inuit music has been based around the drums as far back as can be known, and a vocal style called katajjaq has become known as a curiosity in Canada and abroad.
		Katajjaq is a type of traditional competitive song, usually held between two women.
		It is one of the world's few examples of throat-singing, a unique method of producing sounds that is otherwise best-known in Tuvan throat-singing.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Inuit_music (432 words)

	FOOTPRINTS IN NEW SNOW: POSTMODERNISM OR CULTURAL APPROPRIATION?
		The katajjaq were then combined with other synthesized and/or environmental sounds evocative of Canada’s arctic north, and, in the case of Nunavut, with the sound of locomotive engines and trains which, of course, have nothing to do with the arctic north.
		Katajjaq were games to them, so they played with katajjaq and were quite baffled by the fact that two khablounas (white people) like Keith and me wanted to watch them play.
		These are conscious and, to a degree, self-referential statements, in that their content and form of presentation help ask the question "what is art?" Externally, this practice resembles artistic appropriation, but is in essence a powerful statement about the futility of ‘original’ artistic statement in a culture of mechanically replicated and mass produced images.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~chatzis/footpaper.htm (9016 words)

	Inuit music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Traditional Inuit music has been based around drums used in dance music as far back as can be known, and a vocal style called katajjaq has become of interest in Canada and abroad.
		In Inuit there is no word for what a European-influenced listener or ethnomusicologist's understanding of music, "and ethnographic investigation seems to suggest that the concept of music as such is also absent from their culture." The closest word, nipi, includes music, the sound of speech, and noise.
		Katajjaq (also pirkusirtuk and nipaquhiit) is a type of traditional competitive song, considered a game, usually held between two women.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inuit_music (490 words)

	Native North Americans in Canada
		With regard to singing style, for example, the intense, high tessitura male vocal quality of Plains drummers is perhaps the best known.
		Contrasting styles, however, are numerous, ranging from the rhythmicized breath sounds of an Inuit katajjaq, to the less clear vocal quality of certain ceremonial song types of the Kwakiutal, or of Dene gambling songs, to the thinner nasal quality of a Naskapi lullaby.
		Generalizations are perhaps more valid with regard to song texts.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002542 (1192 words)

	Nunatsiaq News, February 6, 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		A Toronto composer of electronic music says he was "blown away" the first time he heard Inuit throat singing.
		First, the strange rhythm of katajjaq evoked childhood memories of a locomotive steam-engine.
		After spending half of the 1990s exploring katajjaq as a contemporary art form, Hatzis now hopes to do a little inspiring himself.
	www.nunanet.com /~nunat/week/80206.html (5786 words)

	U. of T. The Bulletin, July 22/96, Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Mournful Inuit songs called ayayay, the sounds of the community of Iqaluit, animal noises and voices of the people Hatzis met became an interpretive presentation of what he understands the North to be.
		Throat songs, called katajjaq in Inuktitut, are literally vocal games.
		They involve two people, one who sets the vocal pattern -- there is no melody to the sounds -- and the other who tries to imitate the pattern.
	www.news.utoronto.ca /bin/bulletin/july22_96/art11.htm (558 words)

	Music of Canada
		In katajjaq, female singers produce melodies from deep in their throats.
		Common in Northern Quebec and Baffin Island, katajjaq singers perform in sync with each other, so that is producing a strong accent while the other is producing a weak one.
		The contest ends when one singer begins laughing, runs out of breath or the pair's voices become simultaneous.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/mu/music_of_canada.html (1897 words)

	FERTILITY RITES
		In one of our interviews in Iqaluit Keith and I learned that throat songs were originally a fertility ritual, a shamanistic mating call which the women performed while the men were out hunting.
		In addition to the katajjaq samples, the tape part consists of prerecorded marimba sounds (normal, 'bent' and bowed) which both in terms of timbre and musical treatment represent a virtual extension of the instrument's abilities.
		In a programmatic sense they represent the performer's 'thoughts' or 'instincts' in contrast to the instrument on stage which represents the performer's 'voice'.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /%7Echatzis/Fertility.htm (396 words)

	Classical Net Review - Hatzis - Chamber Works
		Hatzis has been interested in the Inuit people for more than a decade, and was especially intrigued by their throat singing, with they call "katajjaq." Probably derived from old fertility rites, katajjaq is practiced primarily by Inuit women, although men can do it too.
		Having recording the katajjaq, he alters them electronically and combines them with other sounds, making a strange and fascinating experience even stranger and more fascinating.
		In Fertility Rites, sampled throat songs play counterpoint games with a marimba; in Hunter's Dream, they are combined with flute samples.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/c/cbc01156a.html (726 words)

	Thoat Singing In Inuit Culture By Clint Leung Entertainment Cumuli Content
		It was an activity that was primarily done by Inuit women although there have been some men doing it as well.
		In the Inuit language Inuktitut, throat singing is called katajjaq, pirkusirtuk or nipaquhiit depending on the Canadian Arctic region.
		It was regarded more as a type of vocal or breathing game in the Inuit culture rather than a form of music.
	www.cumuli.com /ezine/request_article.html?article=1221 (760 words)

	Inuit Throat-Singing
		The religious ban has now been lifted, and it has been resurfacing in the last 20 to 30 years.
		The main regions where throat-singing is found in northern Canada are in North of the province of Quebec - where it is called katajjaq, on Baffin island - called pirkusirtuk, and in Nunavut - called nipaquhiit (Nattiez, 1983).
		The Rekkukara of the Ainu (Japan) and the Katajjaq of the Inuit (Canada) A Comparison.
	www.mustrad.org.uk /articles/inuit.htm (3879 words)

	Article - Inuit Throat Singing fo the Artic Circle
		Inuit throat-singing is found almost everywhere in the Inuit arctic lands, covering all of the northern part of North America.
		The main regions where it is found are in the North of the province of Quebec (where it is called katajjaq), on Baffin island (where it is called pirkusirtuk), and in Nunavut (where it is called nipaquhiit) (Nattiez, 1983).
		In Alaska, throat-singing has completely disappeared while the Inuit of Greenland never developed it, possibly due to their isolation from the rest of Canada.
	pages.infinit.net /musis/matsu_take_eng/1_AMG_Inuit.html (1518 words)

	Piano Concerto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		I was able to work in close cooperation with singers Pauline Pemik and Inukshuk Aksalnik in the development of the piece.
		Many of the katajjaq are games that have a competitive component.
		One of the singers will lead by adding a new element that must be responded to by their partner.
	www.brandonu.ca /carrabre/Inuit%20Games.htm (288 words)

	inuit katajjaq - Shroomery Message Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Excuse my ignorance but what's this inuit katajjaq and inuit throat singing?
		katajjaq is technically the term the inuit (eskimos) use to describe the voice 'games' they play...which coincidently sound a whole fucken hell of a lot like the throat singing of various other cultures around the world
		katajjaq by itself is kinda cool (IMHO) but I think all the extra stuff added to this particular clip really makes it stand out as something truely awe-inspiring
	www.shroomery.org /forums/showflat-Number-2715987.html (271 words)

	The Glory of the Human Voice e
		Almost unheard of is the only European tradition of overtone song on Sardinia, the solo plus trio su tenore form of song.
		The Inuit that live in the Northeastern part of Canada have a game called katajjaq (the Inuit are eskimos but they regard this term as insulting).
		For this game two women sit across from one another and sing.
	www.klangmuseum.de /english/texte/humvoice_e.htm (841 words)

	Inuit - Last.fm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Imitation of the cires of geese, Katajjait with geese cries
		Listen to music, see charts for Inuit - Katajjaq, :59, Inuit - Assalalaa, :38, Inuit - Katajjait on "Hamma", 1:29, Inuit - Katajjait sung by a solo voice, 1:44, Inuit - Extracts from "13 Katajjait", 6:19
		We don't have an image for Inuit yet.
	www.last.fm /music/Inuit (86 words)

	FOOTPRINTS IN NEW SNOW
		Footprints in New Snow is an electroacoustic composition for tape alone based on prerecorded katajjaq, the vocal games of the Inuit.
		The title is borrowed from a recent policy paper by the same name issued in 1995 by the Nunavut Implementation Commission in which the character of Nunavut, the new northeast territory to be effective in 1999 is discussed.
		Standard writings like the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada tell us that the games are played on all manner of occasions: anytime during the day, in any season, for sheer pleasure, to put babies to sleep or upon returning from the hunt, in the form of team games and so on.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~chatzis/Footprints.htm (1818 words)

	Canadian music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In katajjaq, female singers produce melodies fromdeep in their throats.
		Common in Northern Quebec and Baffin Island, katajjaq singers perform in sync with each other, so that isproducing a strong accent while the other is producing a weak one.
		The contest ends when one singer begins laughing, runs out ofbreath or the pair's voices become simultaneous.
	www.therfcc.org /canadian-music-237852.html (1843 words)

	Article - Throat-Singing
		The Inuit of Northern Canada practise what they call "katajjaq", also practised by other peoples of Eastern Siberia and Northern Japan under other names.
		Throat singing is practised mainly in Asia, from India all the way north to Siberia, but also among peoples of South Africa, the Inuit of Northern Canada and Greenland, the Ainu of Northern Japan and peoples of Eastern Siberia.
		" The Rekkukara of the Ainu (Japan) and the Katajjaq of the Inuit (Canada): A Comparison", Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Le monde de la musique 2/1983.
	pages.infinit.net /musis/matsu_take_eng/9_AMG_Throat_Singing.html (1829 words)

	Boosey & Hawkes Making Music
		These ethereal voices open a window onto an evolving soundscape in which other elements discover their place.
		Ceremonial bells and crotales, dreamy string flageolets, a guttural droning of voice and cello, the squeaky pendulum of a playground swing, and a breathy Inuit katajjaq, or throat song-game.
		These elements are driven relentlessly forward by basses and cellos to reach a dynamic peak.
	www.boosey.com /pages/making/catalogue/cat_detail.asp?musicid=15081 (1080 words)

	Discoveries
		It is a technique, usually practiced by Inuit women, that involves two people singing or vocalizing tones directly into each other’s mouths.
		Hatzis incorporates actual recordings of katajjaq into these various works, sometimes untouched but sometimes, as in Hunter’s Dream, various studio effects are applied.
		The name of the CD comes from a radio documentary of the same name in which Hatzis combines throat singing and electronic samples from Western Civilization.
	www.thewholenote.com /wholenote_feb_03/discoveries.html (5264 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Whoever drops him is the next "frozen walrus carcass."
		Throat-singing (a term used only in some communities); in others it is Piqqusiraarniq, [Iglulik], Qiarvaaqtuq [Arviat], Katajjaq, [Nunavik and South Baffin].
		Katajjaq is becoming the most commonly used term.
	www.nac.nu.ca /publication/vol1/glossary.html (1646 words)

	From the President
		Peck's piece was a tour-de-force for solo percussion brilliantly executed by Salvador Ferraras, and Beverly Johnston gave a very fine performance of Hatzis's Fertility Rites for solo marimba and tape.
		Taped sounds included Inuit katajjaq songs and prerecorded marimba samples.
		The remainder of the works ranged from the canonic imitation of the Hatch work through the Latin flavor of the Stokes piece to the disturbing love/hate picture of urban life in Daniel's composition.
	www.american-music.org /publications/bullarchive/perfs243.html (3623 words)

	HUNTER'S DREAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		My fascination with the people (Inuit means the people) and their culture has grown steadily since 1992, culminating in the summer of 1995 with a trip to Baffin Island in Canada's arctic to record and interview throat singers.
		I first encountered their katajjaq (throat games) during a CBC radio documentary called the Idea of Canada on which I collaborated with producer Steve Wadhams and sound engineers Lawrence Stevenson and Rod Crocker.
		Morgan Fisher, a well known rock keyboardist living in Japan, read a review of
	www.chass.toronto.edu /~chatzis/Hunter.htm (364 words)

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