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Casteels highlights ten empirically proven facts about birds and their songs, as well as discusses the approaches European art music composers have taken with regards to birds. He then goes on to give a background and a brief analysis on his composition for the grand finale of the Singapore Botanic Gardens' 150th Anniversary, Bird Songs. The article closes with a recommendation of specialised literature relating to some interesting aspects of birds.
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Casteels examines the relation between music and image in the movie Clouds-Letters to My Son, a film by Marion Hansel. The essay analyses the formal structure of the movie with respect to its use of sound - what the music seeks to portray, its style, tonality; the sounds of nature; and finally, silence and its effect. |
Book-object created by Raphaël Casteels in 2007 comprising: - one case sculpture out of plexiglass of 26 x 26 x 11.4 cm; - two oriental bindings type daifuko cho on two note-books published on Darwin paper of 160gsm, 26 pages, 10 pictures; specimen number I/V; - one catalogue published by Robert Casteels, National University of Singapore, in 2006 |
Asian Folktales and Legends was the title of a special concert conceived and given by Robert Casteels with the National University of Singapore’s guitar orchestra in 2010. A poet wanders, muses and invites the listener down Asia’s memory lane with guitar music from Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and The Philippines. |
This analysis of part two of my Berlayar ke Mata Hari 5 shows the structural organisation in 5 sections, the harmonies spread over nine octaves and the time as well as numerical proportions in relation to number 19, which was the key number of all 19 pieces that constitute the Berlayar cycle, composed and premiered from 1997 to 1999. |
Bar by bar analysis of the theme and 12 variations that constitute the 2009 composition entitled Bird Songs. |
Casteels traces Baudouin Oosterlynck’s transformation from a performing artist to a performance artist, such that the “passive behaviour of (his) listener is completely transformed into an active search”. In sharing Oosterlynck’s intrigue in the relation between sound and non-sound – how we hear through silence, as well as questions on how we relate between what is seen and heard, Casteels had the opportunity to collaborate with Oosterlynck, who had in the 1980s created works of auditory illusion by using the peculiar acoustic properties of existing buildings, in “Sound Journey – from architecture to music”. |
Rythmical thesaurus of the 2010 composition entitled Fireflies and crickets. |
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Mozart - Varèse was the title of a thought-provoking multi-media concert collaboration between actors and The Philharmonic Winds in 2002. The concert alternated music of two proto rhythmicians and rebels - the misunderstood Wolfgang Amadé Mozart of the 18th c. and the unknown Edgar Varèse of the 20th c., with extracts from their correspondence and writings. |
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