Articles

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

Interviews given by R Casteels with Le Petit Journal, le média des expatriés à Singapour (mois de mai 2021). The Composers Society as composer of the month (November 2021) Conversation with Robert Casteels, Ms Jolie Giouw and Mr Didier Ballenghien (2012) La Musique d'ailleurs (2019) and L'humeur d'un confine Viewpoint Interview (2017). Transcript of interview with Robert Casteels with Gavin Lee Postcolonial Affect: Ambiguous relationality in Casteels's L'(autre) fille aux cheveux de Bali by Gavin Lee

In this 27-page MMA dissertation directed by Dr John Salmon, pianist Jessica Leong focuses on Casteels’s Suite op. 2 and Vijf Palindromen op. 121.

I’mPULSE was the first Asia-Europe music camp organized by the Asia Europe Foundation. Casteels conceived and executed the idea of gathering together young players to play new pieces by young composers. All 18 participants and came from countries member of the Asia-Europe foundation. The final concert took place in the Cultural Centre of The Philippines in 2005 and was recorded.

First document is the syllabus of a music course given by R Casteels in 2008 and 2009 at Emaar International School, Singapore, covering Turkish, Arab, Jewish, Persian, Azeri, Armenian, Georgian, Uzbek, Afghan, Pakistani, Indian, Nepalese, Chinese, Mongolian, Korean, Japanese, Philippino, Vietnamese, Khmer, Thai, Burmese, Malaysian, Singaporean and Indonesian music.

Analysis of the 2014 composition opus 98 entitled Kaze Ni Noru.

Analysis of opus 96 Potteke Vet Ludus Tonalis.

Casteels’s biography and texts on his compositions until December 2019 in Dutch language.

Research conducted by R Casteels on the subject of music and mathematics with a course given at the Lycée Français in 2020 and a 2020 special project (proposed to NUS which in the end did not materialize).