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The catalogue contains the full list of opus number from 1 to 150 as per December 2025 (page 1), the list of seven works without opus number (page 9), the list of 41 arrangements and transcreations (page 9) and the list of 16 unfinished compositions (page 10)

The guitar duo entitled chiaroscuro is based on the following material: a melody in harmonics; an accompanying rhythmic ostinato; a chromatic chordal shift, ascending and descending simultaneously, with a gradual decrease in length; a chiastic rapport between the two guitars and three pitches corresponding to the acronym of the bank CIC that commissioned this piece.

In 2001, Casteels became the youngest recipient and the second musician ever to receive the prestigious Christoffel Plantin Prize, the Flemish Government’s highest award for cultural achievements, in recognition of his contribution to cross-cultural research.

Lesson plans of two conducting modules taught at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in 2001 and at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 2025. Lesson plan 1 and lesson plan 2

This analysis comprises the compositional material, a bar by bar analysis and the structure of the 2016 composition entitled Cu Rua.

Deze analyse bevat de zeven leitmotieven, de modale taal, nota's over de klankkleuren en taalgebruik. https://youtu.be/85pFqNuOuwQ https://youtu.be/fp6anifIzbA https://youtu.be/zGQzyzg_Jm4 https://youtu.be/pIDO7fk5Q4w

This document shows the images of eight books containing drafts, notes and sketches of composition as well as the image of six logbooks covering the period from 1997 to 2026

This analysis of El Jardín de la Vita e Muerte shows the structural organisation in 12 parts, the melodic and rhythmic language as well as thoughts on tauromachy and tauroboly.

Des fresques explicites de Pompéi et d’Herculaneum aux sculptures de Jeff Koons, en passant par les œuvres photographiques de Robert Mapplethorpe, le sexe a de tout temps inspiré les artistes visuels. Chaque époque a produit son scandaleux Olympia. Chaque époque produit également son scandale musical. La musique européenne est largement basée sur l’expression sublimée de sentiments humains ainsi que sur le principe de tension – résolution. Cependant, est-il raisonnable sans ridicule de chercher des allusions sexuelles dans une pièce de musique? La musique peut elle être essentiellement érotique, voire même pornographique? Ma composition de deux œuvres d’inspiration érotique, Féline et Colère et Rachmania, m’a conduit à questionner la relation entre Eros et la musique.

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”. See "Architecture"