Articles

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).

In the article entitled Presence and absence of music in The Quarry (2004) R Casteels breaks down Marion Hänsel’s film (2000) into the four compositional themes employed by the composer, Takashi Kako. Casteels effectively brings the reader to his conclusion that it is “the different but complementary roles played by music and moving images” that results in the “magic” of movies. In the essay entitled Mes films sont fragiles (2004), Casteels examines the relation between music and image in the movie Clouds-Letters to My Son, a film by Marion Hänsel. 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. The document entitled Hänsel_Casteels Movies_Music is the programme book a festival cum concerts entitled The Magic of Music in Movies was the title of a festival cum concerts, organized in collaboration with film director Marion Hänsel, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the National University of Singapore Centre for the Arts in 2004.