Michael Atherton & Melismos #1

[NarmerAlekosCol]

el ultimo post

[SteinbrecherBack]

Maybe shoulda trained circular breathing...

[slstr46]

πολυ καλο!εκστασις!

[Ono42012]

Thank you so much for the upload! I am looking to buy a pair of those double auloi do you know where I can buy them? Thanks again!

[PoseidonGRE]

many many stars !

Greeks Salute you

[paolocristiano]

I wish to buy Aulos instrument on line but i dont know site online for get it,

please someone can help me ?

thanks

i wish you the best one only ...

Paolo

[paolocristiano]

Please .. someone can help me?

i wish to buy Aulos instrument  on line but i dont know where ?

someone can help me with some information or link?

thanks

Paolo

[Markoffnicoww]

@paolocristiano I am also looking for an auloï, did ou find something since our last post ?

[paolocristiano]

@Markoffnicoww nothing news.... i am looking in sicilia but its very hard

[TheTrancemaster90]

Damn, the ancient people had a totally different conception of melody!

[chopsddy3]

Thank you so much for this insight.

[IAmTheWoodenDoors]

No matter where I look I cannot find any place where I can buy a double aulos, nor a place where I can learn how to make one with proper tuning. Could you help me out?

[PoseidonGRE]

@IAmTheWoodenDoors check the Greek instrument maker Νικολαος Μπρας(nicolaos brass) in his site.

[neopostretro]

Fantastic! Bravo! Its this kind of stuff that makes youtube worthwhile. Thank you so much for posting this!

[MARKOPOULOS3]

I'm imagining Dionysis and his menaeds...

[ILikePwnage]

There is a reason why this piece is called Dionysian Rant, and not Apollonian Rhetoric.

[Dolicocefa]

Similar tu the Sardinian LAUNEDDAS

[dmarker21]

Interesting interpretation. Double reed pipes (with both single and double reeds) are still played in Southern Italy (Magna Grecia) both with and without a bag (ie bagpipe). Rhythmically and melodically it sounds nothing like the interpretation in this video. I think the ancient stuff would sound more similar to the modern folk music than you might think. I think academic interpretations tend to sound too "tribal," a bit contrived. Check out my "ciaramelle d'amatrice" videos if interested.

[lilrapper76]

weird

[windmaker21]

this is such wonderful music. I love it. Makes me wanna dance to it all night!

[TAcoBoXXX]

does anyone know where i can buy those pipes that he is playing? I believe the pipes are called an "avlos"? can anyone tell me if i'm right and where i can buy them? thanks! :D

[windmaker21]

this makes me want to get up and dance. I love this music.

[sorin1918]

Thank you for this woderful headache! I think I prefer the romanian shepherds that are playing at two pipes better then this ..there's no melodic line here,were the anciants stone deff?

[nArUtO23sAsUkE]

I know an Aulos flute, but I don't know how to play it so I want to watch a tutorials here in youtube. Could u recommend some videos please?

[windmaker21]

when I hear this I imagine a dance within a great palace. nice music.

[windmaker21]

when I hear this I imagine some kind of dance in a great palace. It is so wonderful.

[windmaker21]

to all thse stiff academics, shame on you! This would make any person from that era proud! They would have loved this music in the courts of Athens! These people do their best so let them be.

[PaganFreak9210]

do you know where i could buy the pipes that guy is playing?

[korivantas]

ELELEF

[numberharmonics]

Fabulous Stuff. And for those who accuse you of heresy, to imagine that the Ancient Greeks were stiff and formal with their music performance and never improvised simply advertises their own lack of compassion and understanding of these amazing people. 5 Stars from me!

Michael

[Timrath]

and 5 more from me.

[freejazzfree]

greek music was almost entirely improvised from what i've read.

i'm sick of these stiff academic ethnomusicologists reducing the joy of this ancient music to just textbook transcriptions

[Klezfiddle1]

Amen to that! May almighty Zeus strike all those pretentious, know-it-all, desicated, dry, SOULESS music boffins DOWN!!!;o)

[RolfLarsson]

Is that really how historical musicologists think? I'd have thought they'd known that since most music wasn't written down, that it had to be made up by the individual.

[rakkav]

It's not that most music wasn't written down, it's that 1) there were different levels of music (primitive, folk, classical), just as today; 2) classical music was normally written down only for the initiates and taught orally to others (often hand-to-eye by means of gestures). The others were oral and largely improvised, as noted.

Egyptian classical music seems to have been very strictly organized -- Hebrew temple music likewise. Greek classical music allowed improvisation within bounds.

[dolofonos]

This video does not do justice to your performance--there is so much life in it and I can't help but expecting to at any moment see dance, food and wine. Anyway, it really is good. You ought to play at night and out doors in fire-light. Atmosphere would do so much!

[pitanoperra]

try to play auloi with circular breathing

[Timrath]

did the ancients use circular breathing? is there any material about this matter? i'd be interested.

[rakkav]

There is -- start with Curt Sachs' old books, THE RISE OF MUSIC IN THE ANCIENT WORLD: EAST AND WEST and THE HISTORY OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Much work has been done since, of course.

[Toocold]

This is amazing work.

[SCWguqin]

I've never heard aulos sound so shawm-like. This was the sonic effect of two mini-shawms, complete with non-continuous breathing. The volume and timbre are intriguing given the cylindrical bores. As my one question on authenticity, whatever happened to the kapistron and probable circular breathing?

[artcritic1]

youTube: greek metaphysical

[Pafralis]

Geia sas...

where can I buy such a double auloi???

[SyriaLovesGreece]

i think that people should know that those are still used in some places arround the Mediterranean Sea like middle east;they have them in the hight mountains of lebanon and syria they play music in the same way till now

[Klezfiddle1]

Do you have a CD out of this amazing music? This is one of the most energizing performances of ancient music I have EVER heard!I have heard so many dire,dull "academic" renditions of ancient music - this is like a breath of fresh air!!Your music has truly captured the Soul of ancient Greece...

[cruciferum]

great! my band uses ancient instruments to combine ancient Greek melodies with symphonic metal and your videos have helped us a lot in our research. I was only wondering, is the diavlos [that's how the double pipe was called] supposed to be sounding like this? in some parts it sounds a bit of-key... just wondering.

[NihilNominis]

Whoa!  That was virtuosic! Magnificent!

[bouzouki123]

Finally, a true and honest replication on ancient Greek music on youtube. I hope you get more positive rating and lots of hits. That other fellow, klezfiddle, who has a dozen videos on ancient music is terrible and nonacademic. He's out there spreading misinformation as to how ancient music sounded and people eat it up. Thank you for not distorting the music to suit your own purposes....excellent!

[Klezfiddle1]

I may be "just" a humble,self-taught musician...but at least I'm not a pompous,"know-it-all" PRAT!Surely, it is "acceptable" to have a genuine interest & passion in ancient music WITHOUT having a PhD to prove it!!What do others out there think?

[NihilNominis]

I like both you and Melismos, myself. Different styles.

[Komnene777]

Now I can imagine when these were used in battle.

[Hoplitikon]

excellent