IL CENTRO DEL SUONO
EXPOSITION: THE ORIGIN
OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENT

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MUSIC ARCHAEOLOGY: MUSEUMS
THE SOUNDS OF PREHISTORY
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WALTER MAIOLI, BIOGRAPHY
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EXPOSITION
The
ORIGINS
OF THE
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS


NATURE - ETHNOLOGY - ARCHAEOLOGY
prototypes, original finds and replicas from the whole world

by Walter Maioli

The story of the exposition
Fort Klank, Asperen, Olanda, 1993
Wunderkammern of sounds

 

Basic Instrumentary " natural sonorous materials "

stones, seeds, woods, shells, bones, horns employed as percussions, whistles, flutes, trumpets, reeds, rhombuses, bows.

Studies of paleorganology and experimental archaeology, reconstructions of prehistoric finds:
Different variations of whistles and flutes obtained from bones of birds.
Among which a flute in eagle’s bone coming from the Himalaian sjamanic cultures.

"Instrumentary of the Fairies, the Nymphs and the Satyrs"
Arcadian musical instruments conceived by Walter Maioli for the film:
"A Midnight summer's Dream" from the director Michael Hoffman, interpreted by Michelle Pfeiffer, Kevin Kline.

The Blow and the Matter "The Blow and the Matter"
low whistle: ostrich’s egg of the Bosciman of the Kalahari
middle whistle: hen in terracotta of Matera (Italy)
high whistle: swan’s feather of the Inuits (Eskimo).
Sonorous instruments employed during the theater spectacle of Giorgio Albertazzi "Around Dante",
music of Walter Maioli and Archeosonus.

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