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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"

A special project in the form of a concert with music compositions inspired by stock market and financial crises. See Greed&Fear.

Rhythmical thesaurus of the composition opus 78 entitled Fireflies and crickets.

Programme book and poster of the artistic collaboration with installation artists Christine Dupuis, Thorsten Baensch and Bob Verschueren in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore in 2007.

Ce document de 324 pages contient les cours donnes par R Casteels au Lycée français de Singapour sur les sujets suivants : Moyen Age, Renaissance, baroque, ostinato, le fantastique, le jazz, l’impressionnisme, la musique d’ailleurs, la musique électro-acoustique, rock n roll, le mythe, le recyclage, les hymnes nationaux, méthodes et pratiques scientifiques, organologie, symbolisme, humour, mathématique, pratique vocale et 28 défis de pratique instrumentale.

During his Deanship of the Faculty of Performing Arts at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in Singapore from 1999 to 2003, Robert Casteels conducted research on the College’s gamelan. Contrary to the gamelan way of octaviating ad libitum, he established the importance of pitch class for the composition of his Berlayar cycle. This led him to establish a full Pelog (and Slendro) chart of all the gamelan instruments that were available at LASALLE in the 1990s.

This document comprises the texts and sources of the quotes present in the string quartet opus 79 entitled Greed&Fear.

Online course on the history of the guitar given by R Casteels to NUS students during the Covid-19 pandemics

This analysis comprises the 7 elements of the 2015 composition entitled Hanging Gardens, an analysis bar by bar and the list of prime numbers used in the composition.