Interesting Links for 09-05-2018

[andrewducker]

The world's oldest recorded music is 3,400 years old, and from Syria

(tags: syria music history )

New evidence that infants track others' mental states

(tags: children empathy psychology )

Anyone know of Paris Orly airport is still running Windows 3.1

(tags: Windows airport france OhForFucksSake )

Don't offer your child help with homework, offer them time to do it in

(tags: school children parenting )

British government warned not to back EU palm oil ban so it can keep selling arms to Malaysia

(tags: weaponry business environment government UK Malaysia )

The Ocado robot swarms that pack your shopping

(tags: robots shopping )

EU tells Trump he doesn’t have the power to unilaterally scrap the Iran nuclear deal

(tags: Iran Europe usa )

Comments

[anef]

It isn't clear from the article whether the recording is actually of the song they have reconstructed, but it is fascinating.

I went to a presentation last year on reconstructing Ancient Greek music, specifically for the aulos or double flute, by a chap called Barnaby Brown who is one of the aulos players in this clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hOK7bU0S1Y

As I'm not a musician I had been under the impression that Ancient Greek flutes sounded like modern ones, ie rather breathy and delicate. But the auloi had reeds and sounded much more like bagpipes. I had always been a bit confused about how the Greeks used flute music to keep the time on triremes, but this makes a lot more sense. I now have images of massed choirs and aulos players marching up to the Acropolis on festival days.