Aulos from ancient Greek and Roman times music by Max Brumberg
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Aulos or Auloi double pipes from antique Greece, an improvisation on a reconstruction of the Louvre Aulos found in Egypt, played by Max Brumberg in south France.
We had a concert night while our aulos reed workshop was happening and I decided to play this rather unusual sounding intro.
The journey to learn to play and to make reeds and the Aulos began in 2017 when I met Callum Armstrong and he introduced me to the Auloi, I felt deeply touched by the sound.
Do you feel the sound is triggering something in you?
The Aulos are from the Greek antique and were used in rituals, theatre, therapy and amusement.
The two pipes are tuned in a fourth to each other. The instrument itself is a reproduction of an instrument found in Egypt, exactly the same hole setting it must have sounded similar when people played it back then. Though the players were far more experienced playing in a tradition of an instrument being already played for about 2000ys in those days. Nowadays we are rediscovering this ancient instrument and its sounds and for me it is an amazing thing to be part of the people rediscovering the Aulos.....
The breathing technique used is the very same like on the didgeridoo, circular breathing.
The video quality was not so nice so I decided to use a cartoon filter.
Recorded with a ZoomH5, sound mastered by Alexander Ranft.
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The story of Athena creating this instrument to mimic the cries of the Gorgon sisters after Medusa's murder sounds completely valid after listening to just the first 4 seconds of this beautiful flute. It truly sounds like a haunted cry of misery but in a beautiful way
Athena dont creating this instrument , Originating from ancient Egyptians and is called Egyptian memet
@@khaledkamelali1039 Tell that to Greeks 3000 years ago.
@@dylanc9174Tell that to the Egyptians 5,500 years ago.
I agree!!!
@@dalexi9266tell that to Ukrainians before dinasours!
The dissonance at the start is crazy hypnotic!
The double reeds enable perfectly to play with dissonances, crazy possibilities!
It makes me think of one of those 1980s dystopian films. I feel like this soundtrack would have been on a trailer for the 1984 movie, or the movie itself
There are some people that think this instrument was for hipnosis, and some goes even further and say that is the origin of ,,sirens"
@@vulpes7079 100% sounds like an instrument that would be used for a movie soundtrack
just before a battle to scare the ennemy
Damn, the ancients had some psychedelic af music
Yes and psychedelic music has ancient, foundαmental, basic, rythm and melody. A Greek friend, Demetrios.
Was thinking the same thing! Crazy how similar it is to modern electronic trance psy music
@@Sketch_Sesh i came to say the same thing, first thought was a synth and second an electric guitar. i guess there really isnt anything new under the sun lol
You guys do realize that this dude made up the music, right? The instrument is the only thing ancient about this
Back then it was just music.
Incredible circular breathing! 👏
I love hearing ancient instruments played. In one way, it is a bridge to their experiences, to their world. On the other hand, it is a reminder of how far away they are. We are so often told that our society is based on theirs that you can sometimes forget just how foreign classical Athens would have been if you could visit
Have a little plaque depicting a greek girl playing this instrument. Purchased it at an art show (33 yrs ago) and today I find out what it was called and how it sounded. This was meant to be a blessing for me today. Thank you for playing it so lovely, and sharing.
I imagine a formation of spartans marching to thermopalye while one of them plays this
Breathtaking!
Just seeing the Aulos in ancient art you would never expect it to sound this.
Amazing.
Hearing this in the battlefield before the battle, I would run as fast as I could.
actually the Aulos was used for marching into the battle though the rythm patterns and melodies were probably very different
Towards the source of that rad music!
I like it, it does sound haunting, and it is something being figured out from scratch, but I have a theory that the musicians of its day probably plated many more notes much faster, as is the case with an expert launeddas or alghoza player, but it is very beautiful played as slowly as everyone in the music archaeology scene seems to play it.
keyosuke wait a few more months/years and we are going to progress in playing. Callum Armstrong plays some crazy fast hypnotizing patterns. Imagine those ancient players started when they were children and played probably a lot there life long, they must have been capable of doing so much more finer and virtuous playing.
@@maxbrumbergflutes I was also thinking it might just be a matter of time and skill, but as an audience member, there is no way to tell when the musician is where they're aiming to be. I plan to pick this up and join you in restoring this natural art, as I'm already practicing with an alghoza. The son of the legendary Khamiso Khan is offering lessons on Zoom, as a matter of fact. -Joe Kennedy
@@maxbrumbergflutes Check out Luigi Lai playing Launeddas, and instruments so ancient (probably invented before the bronze age) that is entirely made of reeds and beeswax
www.alinari.it/it/dettaglio/CAL-F-009069-0000
To become a good player of launeddas one needs to start playing it since a young age. You are doing a "miracle" there, take your time and keep up your fantastic job!
Yes: a miracle 😁
Thank you Max Brumberg for bringing us this wonderful experience.
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@@maxbrumbergflutes Yes, but now imagine those players, and then imagine those players with human visionary creativity, trying to push the envelope of what their instrument could be.
its just amazing that i am listening to something that might have been herd 2200 years ago
Hearing this is, so dreamy.
You can imagine the massive grasslands, wind howling down, its sunny, its spring, you are in a formation, marching along with your fellows, prepairing mentaly for a day of battle.
Truly awesome to live in a time that i can listen to these old tunes from trully a different time. Marvelous. Thank you!
Well, I was researching the Greek muses and Euterpe was the Muse of Flute playing, most often portrayed with an aulos. I now can imagine Greek theater and orations with this perfect haunting accompaniment.
I don't think Greek orators had musical accompaniment, did they? It would go against the aetiology for the invention of the instrument.
@@polyglotpoetI guess that with "orators" he means poets, like the ones who sang Iliad or the Odyssey.
So when Leonidas and his 300 bodyguards went on a stroll they had an aulos?
nice
More than just one guy. Three slaves for every warrior, with many playing Dorian modal marching pieces on these. Others with war drums and cymbals. Imagine a 900-man marching band following them around. Plus they carried all the supplies, looked after the armor, sharpened weapons, oiled and massaged them before and after battle, did up their long hair (in accordance with the Law of Lycurgus which dictated it for all graduated warriors to lift a middle finger to their bald Argive enemies), and acted as skirmishers/cover-fire with javelins and slings (projectile weapons were "unmanly" for Spartan warriors, but fine for the slave bearers).
There was also 700 Thespians and 1000 Corinthians with twice as many slaves acting as musicians and skirmishers/slingers. Plus the local militia who had 193 warriors and over 1200 slaves who dismissed theirs almost immediately once they saw the number of Persians. The Thebans arrived with the Sacred Band and no slaves, but defected almost at once to the Persians in order to survive. The actual estimates place the actual number of men who fought at Thermopylae Pass at around anywhere from 10000 to 12000 until the Spartans dismissed any unwilling to die halfway into the battle. Even that left 4000 to 7000. Another thing about the helots, or Ancient Greek slaves across the city-states is that they also did all the cooking for an army. Typically, large pots filled with a simple-but-hearty pottage of lentils or white navy beans refried in fatback or olive oil. Or it could be stewed with blood sausage. Sometimes also dried fruit and a bit of salt for flavoring, with or without garlic and/or fresh ginger.
@@robertcorbell1006 you said almost everything about the residents of laconic land before .One more thing, the helots were not private slaves bit public! They belong to public!
@@malvasia17 Yes. They were much like later Russian serfs in that they acted more in a peasant role or corvee role for the public, but were treated as slaves and subject solely to the whims of their ruler. They lacked any rights and could be treated by members of the Spartitiate class with the utmost cruelty (and they were) with complete impunity. It was much like the way field and quarry slaves were treated in Ancient Egypt. For the public, in that, they acted as a class lower than free farmers but treated as slaves. Of course, the house slaves were individually owned by the wealthiest strata (particularly the Pharaoh) as eunuchs and concubines. But that was seen as different.
When old music and contemporary meet each other. When listening, I could not say when this got written! Congrats! Impressive!
Joel Trincherini thank you very much, I felt so deeply touched when I first heard the Aulos played by Callum Armstrong, I had to get deeper into it.
Not gonna say "Wow, so cool keeping the culture alive and that". That's obvious shit. I'm on a total shroom trip right now and you are the best company. Gosh........I wanna learn to do that...I think I have broken my hands applauding to you.
You think this is shit? Why is everyone liking it here? Let's what you gotta say off the shroom trip.
@@sowhat... You're misreading him. He's not saying the music is shit. He's saying he enjoys it. You're being obtuse
Can’t imagine *EXPERIENCING* that dissonance at the start while tripping.
Why is the sound so haunting and magnetic?
I came here because I read Aristotle say that the sound of the flute only incited passions, and was therefore no good. It struck me as quite strange, for my mind wandered to the modern flute, which is not, by any measure, a "rough instrument". Now I have my answer.
Because it is so ancient... :-)
@Dope Hope Aristotle was a philosopher and in greek and western philosophy passion goes against reason and is seen as a bad thing since in ancient times reason meant freedom and passion was seen as a prison of the mind.
I think this is why..
@Dope Hope Yeah maybe in some but he was greek and they litteraly had Apollo, the god of music so idk
@@umutalandag6853 Keep in mind that Aristotle wasn't opposed to _all_ music, he just believed that some types of music were better than others. The same way that he privileged tragedy over comedy in theatre, for example.
This was unexpectedly incredible. It's like an out of body experience. How wonderful and beautiful this is
I feel like I'm getting hypnotized.
Likewise :-)
Hearing these ancient instruments makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Like seeing a ghost.
Thank you for making your performance avaiable to us. This has been a new and exciting experience for me.
I am very happy you like it, this is such an exiting experience for me too, keep updated with my later videos, it is so much development happening here since we all are so new in bringing back to the world this amazing instrument
Amazing talent! The pitch bending, circular breathing, interesting and beautiful composition....everything is extremely impressive!
i just read that the aulos could cure gout in the hip and wanted to hear what it sounded like! i love it!
Just read Gates of Fire and Pressfield mentions the aulos multiple times in reference to the battlefield. The aulos helped keep a rhythmic cadence so the phalanx could move forward in unison. His narration of battle in that book is so vivid and moving. I couldn't imagine that haunting drone above the din of steel and death. Truly captivating.
fuuuuuu the skill and capacity of the musician 10/10
This guy is saving air in his mouth to push out as he breathes in more air. How? How?!!! Pure skill.
Yeah awesome, it's called circular breathing.
so cool thx!@@holgermurcia7749
Surpised no one else mentioned that, there's no pauses for breathing in his performance which makes it sound even more mystical and out-of-this-world than it already is.
You play beautifully Max. From one soul to another soul, from the same source…
I first listened to this through a musical professor's introduction during a university lecture in Korea. This is so oddly yet so soothing.
Haunting beautiful !
very high level harmoincs and special sound . you dont hear stuff like this speciael today day
it's 4am and i;m listening to roman music. i have no regrets.
I would describe this instrument as the musical manifestation of malice.
Exquisite performance!
Interesting. I thought chaos
In ancient Greek it was associated to irrationality and the unconscious, that's because you can't speak or sing while playing it
Ancient ambient music
Hans Zimmer is going to use this guy in the next Christopher Nolan movie
For some reason my cat really enjoys it 😮
Journey within tones as breathing in time ✨
The beginning sounds a little like warming up/tuning a bagpipe... =D It sounds like one pipe is lead and plays melody while the other keeps a drone, or in some instances provides a bass line though it doesnt seem to strictly follow the modern rules of harmony...more improvisatory in nature i think.
Watched 3 times in a row, kudos Max Brumberg!!
Thank you for all the air you gave for this
This is great. I was doing some research for a story I'm writing and stumbled upon the Aulos when trying to figure out what instrument a musician character should play. I got curious to what it actually sounded like and here I am! Sounds ominous and spiritual, super awesome.
That is pretty much my reasoning as well.
Ahhhhh je vous ai découvert dans le reportage de PaJu et je suis... subjugué. Sublime.
Merci pour toute cette beauté, ce bel ouvrage, cette belle œuvre.
Fabulous circular breathing...
Love this for many reasons, one of which is that it sounds quite similar to the intro to 'The Wizard' by Black Sabbath.
Thanks for sharing!
Magic music !
Allahuma Barek , May Allah Bless You Brother , The Aulos is Just Hypnotic , I Really Enjoyed it
I watched this video once and put it on one of my playlists and I kid you not I'm fuckin plagued by Greek ads for weeks now and I wondered why! It all makes sense! xD
Ps. It is a cool instrument and I do enjoy the sound of it
WOW! Circular breathing while playing two instruments at the same time! That must take SO MUCH practice! Good job, and keep it up!
Fascinating. Thank you!
Whenever I get down and need a return to reality I listen to this song, thank you for the upload
Amazing ❤
apparently this was played during battle / marching formations for soldiers to judge pace/intensity in Sparta. I wonder if thats true and what they would have played.
Theres actually another video of a Protosardinian Aulos and the player uses a much faster rhythm, which is what I assume many of the various Hellenic armies would have used. This is a good demonstration of the sound but rhythmically, there probably would have been a much greater diversity, especially when used for marching or military use or even in combination with other instruments of the time. I am also just blown away by how loud these things are.
@@Lotrfan99 cool thanks for the info! i too am blown away by how powerful the instrument sounds, I immediately recognized it from several movie soundtracks where its been used. I would have never imagined the instrument responsible for the noise would be this one.
pre-Lycurgus the Spartans only used martial songs in the Dorian mode. Not only were other styles discouraged, but punishable under law.
Devine!
That sound is E P I C !
Great circular breathing. Wow!!
Hello, your playing makes me want to learn flute. This one has a lot of potentials! Subscribing.
Awesome! Thank you!
This is so foreign to us with our cerebral society, this is pure feeling but spiritual as well
Amazing!
I'd love to be able to do that circular breathing technique, it makes such a difference!
Beautiful!
😍
this is awesome
Awesome!
Impresionante Max
Yes! Amazing👍👋😊💖
Great grieving gorgons; what a noise
Yare yare daze
Knock knock whos there yooooo
¿Lo habéis escuchado tocando el carnyx? ¡Expectacular!
You’re missing the leather straps around the cheeks which were historically used by professional auletes, so the cheeks wouldn’t inflate that much. This way it was much easier to breathe out the air, you should give it a try :)
Indeed interesting. I tried already, but on the Louvre Aulos the Phobeia does not perform so well. On the older Aulos like the Pydna Aulos it is very interesting and working very well in fact. It permits to play much longer and the sound is more focused. I should upload a Pydna video at some point but I am worried my account would get blocked by youtube for explicit content lol
This is unexpectedly haunting
¿Le habeis escuchado tocando el carnyx? ¡Expectacular! Lo vi en un concierto en La Coruña
WOW! This so amazing!
btw I created an awesome pen and paper campaign around the aulos flute :) because I saw this video
When i heard the Spartan played flutes, this wasn't what i was expecting. Sounds like a celtic war horn.
Fun fact: This is what they used to March to battle. Rival armies had to condition their troops so they wouldn't be scared to death lol. (probably not the same song)
I love this
Thinking of the many peoples and tribes that used this Instrument which only narrowly managed to get their name recorded in history before dissappearing truly makes me sad.
Very very awesome!
It reminded me of the beginning of "Birth Of Liquid Plejades" by Tangerine Dream. Other bits of the piece reminded me of "Phaedra" also by Tangerine Dream.
Yes, a few moments made me think of Vangelis. Amazing stuff.
no wonder they marched those into battle, hot damn this is potent
@Max Bromberg Flutes: Hi Max, Thank you for the beautiful performance. I have never heard aulos being played before. I play recorder and flute, and am wondering why there are more than 4 sound holes on each aulos. Are ther 6 or 7 holes on each aulos? What do the lower 2 or 3 holes do? Could they be played if you used both hands on only one aulos, in manners similar to a recorder or oboe? I also have Chinese bamboo transverse flute, and it too has extra holes at the lower end, but they seems to be decorative in nature.
Thank you!
Tai
Boxster Chen the additional holes on the Aulos were very probably used to be plugged to play in different tunings. On older Aulos like the Megara we found sliders to plug the lower tone holes. Once plugged it gives other harmonies. May be some of the holes were also used to be played two handed. See on my website for tunings and photos of the instruments.
@@maxbrumbergflutes Thank you for your help! Design and play of the aulos are now more clear with your descriptions and pictures. I will read Dr. Hager’s article next.
As I look at the picture of your aulos, I can’t help but wonder if the tuning of a fourth apart between the two pipes reflected the natural sounds of pharynx (or any military) marching: left-right, hey-ho, heave-ho, etc. Just a bugles were used to direct cavalry movements, I wonder what tunes an aulete would play to direct the pharynx in battle. What would you play if you were the aulete during some of the legendary Greek battles?
Answer to everyone: The amazing sound is because it is no flute, but a shawm, played with a reed, much like a clarinet or bagpipe. Don't call it a flute!!
I used to have intrusive thoughts to the melody in the beginning. What the heck.
Hans Zimmer called. He wants these for the next Dune soundtrack.
Does anybody know where to get one of these? And if purchasing is too much of an issue are they hard to make?
I like
oh. my. god.
I was wondering when you breathe, but I see it now.
This is... wow.
This sounds like a bass bagpipe from the Greek islands. The difference is that they have a bag. Crazy breath, good job. Circular breathing?
This could be a movie soundtrack
The unison sound at the beginning is similar to the sound of an "air danger" siren in Ukraine before the next Russian missile attack on Ukrainian cities and power plants. (The sirens sound several times every day. By the way, I am also writing this review to the sound of the siren. I am serious, in Poltava (where I'm now) was declared the highest level of missile danger 4 or 5 minutes ago).
*_Your performance is GREAT! I love it!_*
Its like angels are summon
This has definitely been in a few horror movies. Nice.
Apollo would flay him.
Are you mouthing 2 separate pipes at once or do they share a united mouthpiece?
bluestripetiger it is two separate pipes, check my website there is more information www.maxbrumbergflutes.eu
Hello Max! I love the sound of the flutes! I was wondering, where did you play, exactly? I know France has some beautiful Roman ruins, and this place reminds me of them with its vaulted ceilings and old stonework.
Bruh the beginning had me thinking I was starring in a horror movie. 👀
This instrument has great tone and feel, much better than the bag pipes imo just wish someone could play it with more purpose in each note. Its seems really hard as you’re playing two flutes with reeds. Hopefully one day ill hear this in modern music.
Where can I get one of these instruments
I have been looking at paintings of Satyrs fauns, and Dionysus and this fat little flat face old dwarf - but with horses ears and tail and hoofs - Silenus... the only 1 of his kind, but called by Satyrs and Fauns "Poppa" (Grandfather)
Anyway,, in this paintings,
either the Centaurs are playing this instruments,, or the Fauns are ...
i was imagining high pitched stuff 😆 (boy was i mistaken !
wow
That was awesome, I felt like I was transported back to the Middle Ages there for a second!
Older
My Latin class just roasted you, get owned
Unfortunately you got transported to the wrong era. Rewind to about 2.000 years before the Middle Ages.This is Ancient Greek but regardless….I know what you mean.
Wow, this did NOT sound how I expected it to.
Et moi qui pensais tomber sur une parodie d'aulos (de Vladimir cauchemar ) ^^l
Sounds as if you can produce different dynamics with this instrument, unlike the launeddas
Yes, that is because the Aulos has double reeds similar to a bassoon or oboe, the launeddas’ single reeds are limiting the dynamics.
I need this instrument
Plato was right!!!