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BIO
Lukas De Clerck is a musician and researcher 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 in a more collaborative, multi-disciplinary way. Following the desire to strip the instrument from its enigmatic past, De Clerck created a new, contemporary Aulos: The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas.
This self-designed instrument 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.
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.
He is performing on various festivals around Europe such as Rewire 2025 (NL) , Sonic Acts (NL), BRDCST (BE), Meakusma (BE), Sonic Protest (FR), Archipel Festival (CH) and UH Fest (HU).
In 2024 he became part of the SHAPE+ Roaster of 2024.
His first solo LP was released on Ideologic Organ in 2024.
With Ï Î he collaborated with Sarah Davachi, who wrote the piece Diptych for viola and telescopic aulos, a commissioned piece by Sonic Acts and de Bijloke.
Lukas De Clerck is a musician and researcher 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 in a more collaborative, multi-disciplinary way. Following the desire to strip the instrument from its enigmatic past, De Clerck created a new, contemporary Aulos: The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas.
This self-designed instrument 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.
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.
He is performing on various festivals around Europe such as Rewire 2025 (NL) , Sonic Acts (NL), BRDCST (BE), Meakusma (BE), Sonic Protest (FR), Archipel Festival (CH) and UH Fest (HU).
In 2024 he became part of the SHAPE+ Roaster of 2024.
His first solo LP was released on Ideologic Organ in 2024.
With Ï Î he collaborated with Sarah Davachi, who wrote the piece Diptych for viola and telescopic aulos, a commissioned piece by Sonic Acts and de Bijloke.
RELEASES
Lukas De Clerck - The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas ( Ideologic Organ)
Bloedneus & de Snuitkever – MILLI MILLE (KRAAK)
Bloedneus & de Snuitkever – Le Gardon (Beyt Al Tapes)
Lukas De Clerck - Cerchi Cerchi (Blickwinkel)
Lukas De Clerck & Angélica Castelló - Het Blokfluitasiel (Meakusma / Q-O2)
Ï Î – SALT A ( Futura Resistenza)
CONCERTS
2025
MARCH
FEBRUARY
JANUARY
2024
SOLO
Sonica Symposium, Ljubljana
TOURNEE BETTER LIVE (FR // CH)
Wunderkammer Festival, Brussels
Ï Î
Diptych by Sarah Davachi (for viola and telescopic aulos)
Sonic Acts biennial, Amsterdam
2023
SOLO
2022
MIRY
CONCERTZAAL Ruiskamer #4 w/ Alvin Curran (Gent) Ï
Î
2021
RESIDENCIES
Lukas De Clerck - The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas ( Ideologic Organ)
Bloedneus & de Snuitkever – MILLI MILLE (KRAAK)
Bloedneus & de Snuitkever – Le Gardon (Beyt Al Tapes)
Lukas De Clerck - Cerchi Cerchi (Blickwinkel)
Lukas De Clerck & Angélica Castelló - Het Blokfluitasiel (Meakusma / Q-O2)
Ï Î – SALT A ( Futura Resistenza)
CONCERTS
2025
APRIL
4 BRUSSELS, BRDCST
5 THE HAGUE, REWIRE
16 NEW YORK, BLANK FORMS
17 NEW YORK, MONTEZ PRESS RADIO
MARCH
25 ANTWERP, KLANKHAVEN
FEBRUARY
19 BASEL, KASERNE
21 PARIS, LES INSTANT CHAVIRES
JANUARY
24, BRUSSELS, BOTANIQUE (2GIRLSNAMEDSERGIO)
2024
SOLO
RECYCLART, Brussels
Sonica Symposium, Ljubljana
53100, Chianti
Meakusma Festival, Eupen
City Proms, Leeuwarden
TOURNEE BETTER LIVE (FR // CH)
( Le Périscope // Cave12 // Data // Echos Festival // Poney Fringuant // La Ferme des Gueux // La Coutellerie)
Wunderkammer Festival, Brussels
Ruiskamer (support William Basinski), Ghent
Listen Festival with Suzan Peeters, Arthur Chambry and Amber Meulenijzer, Brussels
Ï Î
Diptych by Sarah Davachi (for viola and telescopic aulos)
Sonic Acts biennial, Amsterdam
Archipel Festival, Genève
Ear to the Ground, Ghent
2023
SOLO
Recyclart, Brussels
Het Bos, Antwerpen
W Brzask, Warsaw
Meakusma Weekender, Sankt-Vith
Nebbia Acustica, Panicale
Onirica, Bologna
Festival of endless gratitude, Kopenhagen
Un Peu, Brussels
2GIRLSNAMEDSERGIO
Montage Label night, Brussels
SMOG, Brussels
ATOMA, Brussels
VALS / E
Q-O2, Brusssels
2022
MIRY
CONCERTZAAL Ruiskamer #4 w/ Alvin Curran (Gent) Ï
Î
HET BOS,
Kraak Festival (Antwerpen) Bloedneus
& de Snuitkever
DE KOER w/
Elisabeth Klinck (Gent) Bloedneus
& de Snuitkever
DE KANT w/
Silvia Tarozzi (Brugge) Bloedneus & de Snuitkever
CITYPROMS (Leeuwarden, NL) CO2-O2 (Uitvoerend Muzikant)
TOUR w/ KRAMP: Bloedneus
& de Snuitkever
WEST (Den Haag NL) VARIA (Rotterdam NL)
DIAMANT D’OR (Strasbourg DE) MS STUBNITZ (Hamburg DE)
NEUE SCHACHTEL (Stuttgart DE) DE NOR (Antwerp)
CONCERTGEBOUW x ENTREPOT, Konvooi Festival (Brugge)
Ï Î
MILLI MILLE RELEASE TOUR
Bloedneus & de Snuitkever
KIOSK (Gent) UH FEST (Budapest, HU) MARTINIQUE (Stavanger, NO)
SONIC ACTS (Amsterdam, NL)
KIKK FESTIVAL (Namur)
Airbag/14Holes
2021