De Clerck affirms that he made efforts to glean the instrument's playing technique and sound timbres from archaeological records.
However, these insights are put to the service of feverishly swarming drones of admirable density, intermittently interrupted so he can catch his breath.
Occasionally, evocative overtones emerge. For example, spectral choral singing seems to be hovering over "the singing phragmites of Pont'Etzu".
Nevertheless, this is an unrelenting record, whose intensity is compounded all the more by the fact that its instrument is subtly alien to our contemporary ears.

THE WIRE, DANIEL NEOFETOU

“With all its layers, its sonic, musical and extra-musical components, the telescopic aulos is still in the
process of unfolding its potential as a medium for discovery and research, next to being an instrument of
great musical potential. It transports a kind of experimental archaeology that, by formulating hypotheses in the present,
allows to reflect what might have been in the past and at the same time questions concepts of beauty,
harmony or virtuosity. Although, in the end, this instrument might have never existed before now.”

JULIA ECKHARDT

Pictures by Emile Barret

A co-production between Sonic Acts, De Bijloke and STUK with the support of Flanders, state of the arts.