EE Spring 2020

Composers Albums

COMPOSITIONS (selection)

Extract from the premiere of "inhabit_inhibit" (2019-2021) for 4 spatialized quartets, 6 soloists and live-electronics, by ASKO|Schoenberg & Ensemblekollektiv Berlin, conducted by Baldur Brönnimann, with sound engineer Florian Bogner.
@Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij, Amsterdam, 24.2.2022.
Composition commissioned by Ammodo/Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij & Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
Edit: Stefan Prins

inhabit_inhibit (2019-2021) - extract

"inhabit_inhibit", for 4 spatialized quartets, 6 feedback soloists & live-electronics (2019-2021). World premiere at Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ (24.2.2022) by ASKO|Schönberg & soloists of Ensemblekollektiv Berlin, conductor: Baldur Brönnimann, sound: Florian Bogner. 
For a video recording of this performance, go to https://youtu.be/PkVCB_kq1Lc
Commissioned by Ammodo/Muziekgbouw aan 't IJ & Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.
Editing&Mastering: Stefan Prins

inhabit_inhibit (2019-2021) - LIVE

Live-recording of "Inhibition Space #2" for bass clarinet and live-electronics, by Georg Wettin (Ensemble Courage), at Hellerau, Dresden, on 6.11.2022.

Inhibition Space #2 (2021) - Live

Salvatore Sciarrino (1947), D'un faune pour flute et piano (1980)

"Mesh" (2022-2023) for ensemble and live-electronics, here live-performed by the Nadar Ensemble at the Concertgebouw Brugge on 26.3.2023 (Yves Goemaere, perc & live-electronics; Dries Tack, bass clarinet and live-electronics; Thomas Moore, trombone & euphonium; Nico Couck, e-guitar+FX; Pieter Matthynssens, cello; Stefan Prins, live-electronics, Wannes Gonnissen, sound engineer).

Additional samples from Rainforests in Borneo and the Amazon recorded by David Monacchi for "Fragments of Extinction".

Commissioned by Nadar Ensemble & Concertgebouw Brugge. Supported by the Flemish Community.

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Even though "Mesh" can be performed as a stand-alone composition, it was premiered as part of the evening-length project "Der Wanderer 2.0" which I developed together with the Nadar Ensemble in 2023. In the version presented in the context of this project, the audience is wearing headphones on which part of the soundtrack and amplification is played back, while other parts of the soundtrack and amplification are heard through the loud speakers on stage. This splitting allowed for an extensive manipulation of sonic depth, nearness, distance, foreground, background, blanketing and uncovering. The audience was encouraged to play with the headphones, taking them on and off freely, listening to only one ear, etc., creating their own listening experience.
Of course none of this can be replicatd on this live-recording, in which the soundtrack is rendered to stereo.

Mesh (Stefan Prins, 2022-2023) - LIVE

For soprano, ensemble, live-electronics & live-video; Live-recording of premiere by Sarah Defrise (soprano), Ensemble Ascolta, Niklas Werani (sound engineer) & Stefan Prins (live-electronics) + Warped Type (video + scenography) at Festival NOW! Essen, Philharmonie Essen, 29.10.2023.

"skin deep #1" was commissioned by Festival NOW! Essen & Ensemble Ascolta with funding from the Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, Baden-Württenberg

Recording by Niklas Werani, mixing & mastering by Stefan Prins

skin deep #1 (Stefan Prins, 2023)

Rafa Rodriguez - Funck

jan-philip schulze, wdr sinfonieorchester köln, peter rundel
(released on mode records)

clouds and sky

Never Were the Way She Was

The Sun Roars Into View

Body Consonance

Dance in Free Fall

stream/download: hwtrs.co/mmunicating
on tour: hwtrs.co/tour

sunshine
where'd you go
i know tomorrow you'll be waiting for me
i'll see morning
until that sight firelight
goodnight

starlight
i really want you
i'd do anything i'd walk through your fire
if only if only you'd peak through
half of my battle
is caught in your shadow

(sunshine
where'd you go...)

so come out
climb out of your hide out reach out to me
i'll open my eyes
my
(sunshine where'd you go...)

when you gonna come back...
you're gonna come back
you're gonna feel it again

until that sight
firelight
goodnight

Firelight

Salvatore Sciarrino
L'orizzonte luminoso di Aton (1989), per flauto

Concerto in occasione del 70° compleanno di Salvatore Sciarrino
martedì 4 aprile 2017, ore 21.00, Aula Cavazzoni del Conservatorio di Musica "Lucio Campiani" di Mantova

Salvatore SCIARRINO - L'orizzonte luminoso di Aton

Recorded live at IMPULS Festival
Graz, 23/02/2015

Richard Barrett - EARTH

Venetian Snares – Szcerencsetlen & Masodik Galamb (BongRa remix)

Johannes Kreidler: Piano Music

Zum Geburtstag

For e-gtr and live-electronics; Matthias Koole, e-gtr; S.Prins, live-el. (from SUB ROSA CD "Fremdkörper", www.subrosa.net )

Not I (Stefan Prins, 2007)

Stefan Prins