Lukas De Clerck breathes new life into an instrument long thought silent. Centering his work on the aulos, the ancient Greco-Roman double pipe extinct for over a millennium, he’s spent years reconstructing its lost voice through obsessive reed-making and experimental design. His Telescopic Aulos of Atlas, a contemporary reinvention of the instrument, turns historical speculation into sonic research, where microtonality, psychoacoustics, and shifting textures form a living vocabulary. This archaemusicological research was extended with an album on Stephen O’ Malley’s Ideologic Organ imprint.

Heard at Rewire, Meakusma, Sonic Acts, and other European festivals, his performances have brought the aulos into the present tense, its breathless tones flickering between myth and experiment.

• The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas, by Lukas De Clerck

• The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas, by Lukas De Clerck