Sympathetic Resonances
A free online platform for documenting, learning, and exploring mbira music
Interactive transcriptions
Edit, play back, and visualize mbira patterns in your web browser:
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News
All news »Tuning repository
Currently, 85+ tunings of seven mbira types are available. Instrument Gallery » Explore the wonderful diversity of historical and contemporary scales, and use them for tuning your own instruments. Example tuning » |
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Archives accessible
In 2017, we started a project at the International Library of African Music (ILAM) to make the great variety of mbiras and tunings in the Tracey Instrument Collection, as well as Andrew Tracey's extensive personal archive of transcriptions audible and accessible to the world.Learn more » |
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Your personal library
Sign up to access all public content, and to start a personal archive of transcriptions. It is, and will always be, free of charge. Everything you create is private, unless you decide to share it with other individuals or groups. To date, more than 400 registered users have created over a thousand transcription records (160+ of them public). How it works »Learning & Inspiration
The public material provides a starting point for learning the traditional repertoire. Use the computer-generated playback and instrument visualization for rehearsal at any tempo, and for practicing the intricate interlocking between multiple players. As an advanced player, get inspiration from a number of musical tools: Transpose and transform pieces, translate them across instrument types, quickly create variations or compose new harmonic progressions.Purpose & Values
This project wants to contribute to the preservation (and expansion) of diversity of mbira music, with a special focus on marginalized traditional instrument types.