Lukas De Clerck is a musician and 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 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.
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.
His music was released on several labels such as KRAAK, blickwinkel and Beyt Al Tapes and performed live in venues all over Europe such as Sonic Acts, STUK, UH Fest, Ancienne Belgique, Cave12,...
lukasdeclerck@gmail.com
Master in Audio-visual ArtsRITCS (Radio department), Brussels
RELEASES
Bloedneus & de Snuitkever – Le Gardon (Beyt Al Tapes)
Ï Î – SALT A ( Futura Resistenza)
Bloedneus & de Snuitkever – MILLI MILLE (KRAAK)
Lukas De Clerck - CERCHI CERCHI (Blickwinkel)
2022
MIRY
CONCERTZAAL Ruiskamer #4 w/ Alvin Curran (Gent) Ï
Î
2021
RESIDENCIES
CURRICULUM VITAE
Master in Audio-visual Arts
RITCS (Radio department), Brussels
RELEASES
Bloedneus & de Snuitkever – Le Gardon (Beyt Al Tapes)
Ï Î – SALT A ( Futura Resistenza)
Bloedneus & de Snuitkever – MILLI MILLE (KRAAK)
Lukas De Clerck - CERCHI CERCHI (Blickwinkel)
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