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Bio
Lukas De Clerck is a musician and sound-artist, living in Brussels.

His artistic practice is currently centered around the Aulos, an ancient Greco-Roman, double-reeded double pipe, that got extinct more than a millennium ago.

After several years of delving deep in the practice of Aulos reed making and playing replicas of ancient instruments, he opens up his inevitably auto-didact artistic output. Following the desire to strip the instrument from its enigmatic past, De Clerck created a new, contemporary Aulos: The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas.

De Clerck’s approach is driven by playful curiosity with a strong interest in the process of transformation. Instead of conserving what is found, he invents what is not. A process that aims to be as radical, as it is careful. The Telescopic Aulos enables De Clerck to narrow down his research on the sound qualities of the instrument in which micro-tonality, psycho-acoustics and sound texture are central elements. Together with his phenomenological view on the instrument, his research has made him an unique voice in the revival of the instrument, introducing the instrument into different fields of music.

In the margin of his research around the Aulos, Lukas De Clerck likes to work with recognizable, almost everyday sound production like gargling, whistling and sneezing. By putting these sonic happenings in an artistic context, a tension arises between the extra- and the ordinary.

The creation of the Telescopic Aulos is made possible by the support of Flanders, state of the arts and co-producers STUK, Sonic Acts en de Bijloke.

Contact
lukasdeclerck@gmail.com
0485252518
lukasdeclerck.com