Articles

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.

https://array.journals.qucosa.de/array/article/view/2534 Abstract by Dr R. Casteels and D. Stromberg. Instances of space for creative interaction between the performers in these compositions have been far and few between. The work, time:space:, has unveiled new possibilities for interaction and a blurring the line between performer and composer creating an artistic interconnectivity and interdependency.

Hearing Images&Seeing Sound is a 2016 transdisciplinary project conceived by Robert Casteels and funded by the Creation Grant of the National Arts Council. This research project brought together visual artists Milenko Prvački and Joshua Yang, videographer Hilmi Johandi, electro-acoustician and e-luthier Dirk Johan Stromberg, composer and conductor Robert Casteels as well as singers Evelyn Ang, Angela Cortez, Melissa Estrella, Daniel Ho, Jeremy Koh, David Ng, Leslie Tay and Felicia Teo. The research culminated into a performance evening that took place on 14-12-2016 in the Dhoby Ghaut Visual Arts Centre followed by an eponymous exhibition. A 77-page catalogue published in March 2017 comprises an introduction by Bruce Quek, Eye for Ear, Ear for Eye essay by Robert Casteels, About Dictionary essay by Milenko Prvački, A theatrical approach to collaboration essay by Dirk Johann Stromberg, the exhibition opening programme, pictures of the work in progress, exhibition documentation, pictures of the the artwork, contributors’ biographies, website links and acknowledgments. See also Time:Crystals and Nine Dragons