Rustic Aulos for Callum Armstrong

Lotos Lab #1 – 'Suppliant' Rustic Aulos
Reeds by Luciano Montisci (c. 2008), pipes by Barnaby Brown (8 November 2021)

Every Lotos Lab instrument is an experiment that brings makers and players, experts and learners, into collaboration. This video is part of ongoing testing and development, published to help the doublepipes revival spread its wings. By sharing insights promptly, supporting each other to make better instruments, we are inspired to practise and create better music. More listeners will want to hear us; more composers will want to write for us; and more sales of reeds, instruments, lessons, and performances will turn the revival into an enterprise that is healthy; not a drain but a resource.

What can we learn from Lotos Lab #1? The pitches were settled on by John Browne and Barnaby Brown in May 2016 at a development day for The Suppliant Women, a play by Aeschylus in a new version by David Greig:
https://www.youngvic.org/blog/timeles...
   • The Making of The Suppliant Women  
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/201...

Barnaby Brown and Callum Armstrong alternated as the aulos player for the runs in Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum and London's Young Vic theatres. The music by John Brown uses the Louvre aulos for most of the show. The 'Suppliant' Rustic Aulos features prominently, however, in the Parados and Ode 3, an excerpt of which is in this trailer:    • Gulbenkian Arts Centre: The Suppliant Wome...   (at 1:07)