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SYNAULIA

SOUNDS, MUSIC AND DANCES
OF ANCIENT ROME AND THE ANTIQUITY

RESEARCHES AND RECONSTRUCTIONS OF
EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY APPLIED TO
THE PERFORMING ARTS,
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF EPOCH,
THEATER AND DANCE IN COSTUME

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SYNAULIA
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES

From 1995 SYNAULIA develops an intense activity of performances, participating to dozens of demonstrations of experimental archaeology in Holland, in the parc Archeon, in the museums of Leiden and Amsterdam, in Germany in the museums and amphitheatres of Munchen, Trier, Xanten, Aalen, Berlin, Bonn, Bad Gogging, Mainz, Rosenheim. In Spain and in Portugal.
Participates to prestigious reviews of classical music and develops concerts in museum environments and archaeological sites as well as in different Italian cities from which Pompeii, Villa of Adriano, Albano, Fiesole, Sutri, Urbisaglia, Corfinio, Matelica, Villa Dose, Fiuggi, Volterra, Populonia, Vulci, Murlo, Vetulonia, Tuscania . In 1996 the first CD SYNAULIA 1 Wind Instruments, edit by the Amiata Records was presented in the Campidoglio in Rome. Concerts and performances were given in particular places as the Mausoleum of August, the Markets of Trajan, the Thermal Baths of Diocleziano, Villa of Livia, The Imperial Forum, The Circus of Massenzio, Ostia Antica, Preneste. Documentaries and scientific programs collaborations: BBC , CNN, Japanese tv , Discovery Channel and participation to video of experimental archaeology among which for the Rai, the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Julia in Rome and different Museums and University in Germany. Consultations and sounds for CD Rom among which for the Archaeological Museum of Florence.
For the BBC- radio, the trumpetshave been recorded in the amphitheatre Flavio, the Colosseum.
From 1999 SYNAULIA started a collabotation with the greatest Italian actor Giorgio Albertazzi that wants them at his side for two different shows.
SYNAULIA appears under the dresses of the Nymphs and Satyrs with their arkadic instruments in the recent film: “A Midsummer Night Dream “ by Michael Hoffman played by o.a. Michelle Pfeiffer, Kevin Kline.
Two compositions from the first cd of SYNAULIA were chosen for Ridley Scott's spectacular film " The Gladiator".
But surely, the finest aspect, the apex of the expression of SYNAULIA is reached with the performance the " Sounds of the Mysteries ".

Recently it's gone out in commerce the CD "SYNAULIA II - String instruments" edit by Amiata records.

SYNAULIA is receiving a warm consent with hundreds of articles, among which on the international press and television passages; the CNN and the principal national TVs in Italy, France, Germany, Japan.

Tuscania (VT) Necropolis of San Potente, "Musical Sunsets of Tuscania"

Concert-theater of sounds "Etruscan Memories " - July, August, September 2003

Tivoli, Villa of Adrianus, Theater Maritime, Concert "The Sounds of the Mysteries" - August 2002

Pompei, Excavations - December 30 th 2001

Xanten, (Germany) Archaeological Park, "Schwerter, Brot und Spiele" - die Romer kommen - June 2003 - Synaulia with the participation of Roberto Corona, Sardinian teacher of reeds.

Tivoli, Villa of Adrianus, scientific archaeological documentary BBC "Carvillius, the Mummy in Rome" SYNAULIA - "At the borders of the empire" - October 2002

Sonorous and theatrical scenes devoted to the Etruscans.
Vulci (VT), Naturalistic Archaeological Park of Vulci, Spectacle "There was once in Maremma" - June 2003

Volterra (Pi)
" Etruscan Visions ",
"The spirit of the spring" - autumn 2002

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Music from ancient Rome,
Vol.2 String Instruments

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FOTO SYNAULIA

Necropolis of St. Potente, "Musical Sunsets of Tuscania" (VT)
Concert-theater of sounds "Etruscan Memories" - July, August, September 2003

Tivoli, Villa Adriana, Maritime Theater,
Concert "The Sounds of the Mysteries" - August 2002

Pompeii, Excavations - December 30 th 2001

	Xanten, (Germany) Archaeological park, "Schwerter, Brot und Spiele" die Romer kommen June 2003 Synaulia with the participation of Roberto Corona, Sardinian master of reeds.

Tivoli, Villa Adriana, scientific archaeological documentary CNN "Carvillius, the Mummy of Rome" SYNAULIA - "At the borders of the empire" - October 2002

Sonorous and theatrical pictures devoted to the Etruscans.
Naturalistic Archaeological park of Vulci(VT),
Spectacle "There was once in Maremma " - June 2003

Volterra (PI)
“Etruscan Visions”,
"The spirit of the spring" - autumn 2002

Il Centro del Suono, Soundcenter
Has begun the consultation of musical instruments, sounds and the training to the actors with roles of musicians and dancers, in the next film of Alejandro Amenábar..... "AGORA" shot in Malta. It talks about Hypatia, fascinating figure of Alexandria, neoplatonic philosopher, musicologist, doctor, scientist, mathematics, astronomist, mother of experimental science.

From  the 10th to 20th March 2008, Walter and Nathalie have been to Malta to take care the first scenes with musical instruments. 

AlejandroAlejandro Amenábar is a Spanish movie director of Chilean origins, multifaceted author , besides directing his films he writes the screen-play and the music of it.  Author of The Others (2001) with Nicole Kidman, his first film in English, that wins eight Goya prizes.



February - 5th 2008 - Alejandro Amenábar visit the laboratory of Il Centro del Suono - SYNAULIA IN STABIAE  at the Campus RAS in Castellammare, for a collaboration in his next film.

SYNAULIA has received a warm press with hundreds of articles and television items and programs, broadcasted by CNN and the principal national TV stations in Italy, France, Germany, Japan

Discovered the sonorous suggestions of the Rome of 2000 years ago
IL TEMPO, Massimo Maffei12 ottobre 1996

Arrive the "ancient Roman" CD
LA REPUBBLICA, Pietro D'Ottavio, 13 0tt0bre, 1996

SUONO ERGO SUM
ILMANIFESTO, ultrasuoni, 20 giugno 1997

The veil of the History
AMADEUS, Massimo Rolando Zegna, 1997
The project SYNAULIA: musical archaeology
For the project Synaulia - Music in ancient Rome even the New York Times, the BBC in London and the Radio from Berlin have travelled. Synaulia is the first organic attempt to torch in disk the music of the ancient Romans. The C.D. is the first of a series of three has been published burdens produced by the Amiata Records in collaboration with the Museum of the Roman Civilization. Every recording is accompanied by a text with historical character. We talked about the project with Walter Maioli -creator of the project and founder of the research group <<Synaulia>> - and with Anna Maria Liberati, Director of the Museum of the Roman Civilization. <<The museum possesses a section devoted to the music and the reconstruction of a few musical instruments based on a series of findings>> Anna Maria Liberati tells us. <<The idea to reconstruct that which could have been the music in ancient Rome was born from a critical reconsideration of the literary sources and the recovered objects. This "theoretical" phase was followed by a "practical" one, effected by Walter Maioli that has taken care of and organized the reconstruction of determined instruments and the composition of the recorded compositions.
Investigator of the naturalistic prehistoric art and of the cultures of native people, expert in paleorganology (the discipline that studies the origins of the musical instruments) and in experimental archaeology, Walter Maioli experiments for more than twenty years the sounds of the past in archaeological circles: playing in the caverns, in the woods, next to the waterfalls, in natural theatres and in those built by the Greek and the Romans. Maioli has published the books The Origins of Sound and Music, for the Jaca Book and The Orchestra of the Nature, published by Mondadori. He develops, among other things, demonstrations of experimental archaeology: concerts/conferences of absolute historical interest and - we speak from direct experience - of unexpected involvement.

World music ante litteram
NOI DONNE, Ivana Zomparelli, Gennaio 1997
……A Music legated to the forest, to the woods, to the nature, devoted to Pan, Bacchus, Cibele, connected to the popular traditions, still distant from the music of the classical world where the string instruments prevail and to which the next two projected volumes will be dedicated. All together, we will perhaps discover a world music ante litteram, exposed as it has been, seen the vastness of the Empire, to manifold influences.