Aulos from ancient Greek and Roman times music by Max Brumberg

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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[howdelydoo]

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

[ivayloivanov]

Damn, the ancients had some psychedelic af music

[CarlErikSimonsen]

The dissonance at the start is crazy hypnotic!

[simonkemfors]

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

[robertnunn]

Breathtaking!
Just seeing the Aulos in ancient art you would never expect it to sound this.
Amazing.

[buddhahoo]

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.

[Krisz]

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!

[brianedwards]

Hearing these ancient instruments makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Like seeing a ghost.

[dominikoravec]

Hearing this in the battlefield before the battle, I would run as fast as I could.

[tHeWasTeDYouTh]

So when Leonidas and his 300 bodyguards went on a stroll they had an aulos?
nice

[cor.ben_]

Why is the sound so haunting and magnetic?

[madman]

its just amazing that i am listening to something that might have been herd 2200 years ago

[keyosuke]

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.

[DonkeyPopsicle]

Hans Zimmer is going to use this guy in the next Christopher Nolan movie

[kilonovaplays]

I feel like I'm getting hypnotized.

[joeltrincherini]

When old music and contemporary meet each other. When listening, I could not say when this got written! Congrats! Impressive!

[nkdoe]

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. wanna learn to do that...I think I have broken my hands applauding to you.

[IndiaHaven]

This guy is saving air in his mouth to push out as he breathes in more air. How? How?!!! Pure skill.

[bow_wow_wow]

This was unexpectedly incredible. It's like an out of body experience. How wonderful and beautiful this is

[francescapoteet]

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.