Improvisation // live-recording June 2011 // Q-O2 workspace Brussels

tWo (Matthias Koole, e-gtr; Stefan Prins, live-electronics)

For ten. sax, perc, e-gtr, pno and soundtrack (Nikel Ensemble: Yaron Deutsch, e-gtr; Brian Archinal, perc; Reto Staub, pno; Patrick Stadler, ten-sax + Alfred Reiter & S.P., sound. Live-recording of premiere at Wien Modern Festival, 8th November 2013, Casino Baumgarten, Wien. (Photo (c) Markus Sepperer) -  Check here to see a video of "Flesh+Prosthesis #0-2": https://vimeo.com/stefanprins/fleshprosthesis0-2-darmstadt

Flesh+Prosthesis #1 (Stefan Prins, 2013) - Nikel Ensemble

Extract from (the middle of) "Inhibition Space #2" (2022) for bass clarinet and live-electronics, as performed by Dries Tack. The full composition (18') will be released this spring on Dries' solo album "Adjacent Spaces" on Orlando Records. 
Editing: Stefan Prins
Recording: Stijn Cools
Mastering: Gert Van Hoof
Realization live-electronics: Dries Tack

Inhibition Space #2 - EXTRACT (for bass clarinet and live-electronics, 2021)

"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)

For French Horn. 
Commissioned by and dedicated to Samuel Stoll.
Home studio recording of the beginning of the composition by Samuel Stoll.

This Body Functions Effectively (2019)- EXTRACT

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

Frank Gratkowski (alto saxophone, bass clarinet, flute & voice) & Stefan Prins (live-electronics), improvisation live at Darmstädter Frühlingstage, 16.6.2022, recorded and mastered by INMM Darmstadt. Picture by Christoph Rau.

Gratkowski & Prins - improvisation 1 - live at Darmstädter Frühlingstage 2022

Gratkowski & Prins - improvisation 2 - live at Darmstädter Frühlingstage 2022

"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)

"I'm your body", for 14 musicians and 4-channel soundtrack. Live recording by WDR of the premiere at Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, 8th of May 2014, Teatersaal, Witten, Germany. Klangforum Wien, cond. Emilio Pomarico, sound-engineer. Florian Bogner, Peter Böhm.

I'm your body (Stefan Prins, 2013-14) - Klangforum Wien, E.Pomarico

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)

Live performance of "Ensuite" (2008, rev. 2011-13) for cello solo by Séverine Ballon at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse Lyon, 4th of October 2014. 

Ensuite (Stefan Prins, 2008, rev. 2011-13) - Séverine Ballon (cello)

"Noses" (Mazen Kerbaj, amplified trumpet + objects & Stefan Prins, live-electronics) live at "dasKONZERTs #6", Riesa Efau, Dresden, on 26.11.2023

For a video of this performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQcQ8fsvzTg

Noses (Kerbaj+Prins) live in Dresden

"Study for a Mirror Box" (2 channels fixed medium). Study for "Mirror Box (Flesh+Prosthesis #3)", for Saxophone, Percussion, Piano/Midi-keyboard & live-electronics (to be premiered by Trio Accanto at Eclat 2015) 

Study for a Mirror Box (Stefan Prins, 2014)

"Mirror Box (Flesh+Prosthesis #3)" performed by Trio Accanto (Christian Dierstein, perc; Nicolas Hodges, pno; Marcus Weiss, ten. & sop. sax), live at Eclat Festival, 6th of February 2015, Theaterhaus, Stuttgart, Germany (Recording editing: Stefan Prins)
NOW: NEW STUDIO RECORDING by Trio Accanto released on WERGO: https://de.schott-music.com/shop/funambules.html

Mirror Box (Flesh+Prosthesis #3) (Stefan Prins, 2014)

Live improvised set at Croxhapox Gent, 13.02.2016
 

Peter Jacquemyn (d.bss,vc) & Stefan Prins (laptop) - live at Croxhapox Gent - 13.02.2016

Written for, dedicated to and performed by Agartha (Bram Bossier, viola & An Raskin, bayan).  Recorded in 2010. Recording engineer: Wannes Gonnissen.

Erosie (Memory Space #1) (Stefan Prins, 2005) - Agartha

Live recording of Bl!ndman String Quartet (Diamanda La Berge-Dramm, Mariana Hutchinson, vn; Hélène Koerver, va; Suzanne Vermeyen, vc)+ Kris Delacourt & Johannes Westendorp, FX-pedals + Stefan Prins, live-electronics, performing "Infiltrationen 3.0" at deSingel, Antwerp, 17th of March 2016.


Infiltrationen 3.0 (Stefan Prins, 2009/2016)- string quartet, 2 FX pedal players & live-electronics

For piano and live-electronics. 
Piano: Stephane Ginsburgh; Live-electronics: Florian Bogner (ICST) & Stefan Prins. 
Live-recording 31/7/2016, CentralStation, Darmstadt, during the Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2016.
In coproduction with Ultima Festival Oslo, deBijloke Gent, ICST Zürich and Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt.

Piano Hero #3 (Stefan Prins, 2016)

From the double-cd "Cloud Chamber": improvisations by Peter Jacquemyn (double bass & voice) and Stefan Prins (electronics).
Released by ChampdAction on December 14th 2016. 
http://www.champdaction.be/nl/audio/
(Artwork: Peter Jacquemyn)

Cloud Chamber - Altostratus Translucidis Undulatus (P.Jacquemyn, dbss&voice; S.Prins, electr)

Montage of two improvisations with Peter Jacquemyn (double bass & voice) and me (live-electronics) from the recording session on 7th of June 2016. Although the two constituent improvisations of this montage were recorded on the same day as the improvisations that are released on the first CD of "Cloud Chamber",  this track is not to be found on the double cd.  

Mix, Edit, montage: Stefan Prins

The Cloud Chamber double cd is released by ChampdAction: http://www.champdaction.be/en/audio/

Cloud Chamber - Double (extra track) (Peter Jacquemyn, d.bass & voice; Stefan Prins, live-electr)

Extract from workshop/recording session with Olivier Vivares (prepared bass clarinet) in preparation for "Third Space" - premiere at Münchener Biennale (June 2018) with Klangforum Wien, dance company "Hiatus"/Daniel Linehan and ICST Zürich.

Towards a Third Space (1)

For clarinet+bass clar, percussion, piano, cello and soundtrack.
Premiere performance by Decoder Ensemble, Hamburg, 2nd of September 2017.

Hände ohne Orte (Stefan Prins, 2016-17)

Stereo downmix of 8-channel electronic composition "Hybridae" (2012)

HYBRIDAE (2012) (stereo downmix of 8-channel version)

First 7 (of 42) minutes.  Klangforum Wien, cond. Bas Wiegers. Full recording released by KAIROS (https://www.kairos-music.com/cds/0015044kai), 27/3/2019

Third Space (2016-2018) - FRAGMENT

Live-recording of the premiere of "Mirror Box Reflections" for dynamically amplified ensemble & live-electronics, by Ensemble Mosaik, cond. Enno Poppe. Kesselhaus, Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, 23/5/2019.
"Mirror Box Reflections" is an augmentation for 9 musicians with dynamic amplifications & live-electronics, of "Mirror Box", for saxophone, piano, percussion and live-electronics (2014-2015).

Mirror Box Reflections (Stefan Prins, 2015/2019)

For bass flute, bass clarinet, bass oboe and live-electronics, performed by Ensemble Mosaik (Bettina Junge, bass fl; Simon Strasser, bass oboe; Christian Vogel, bass clar)

!!---please listen on good speakers/headphones, there's a lot happening in the <100Hz and >10kHz freq bands---!!

Commissioned by and dedicated to Ensemble Mosaik.
Premiered on 1.8.2020 at AckerStadt Palast, Berlin. 
Recording on 28.7.2020 at Vivaldi Saal, Berlin.
Recording engineer: Arne Vierck, editing and mastering: Stefan Prins

Inhibition Space #1 (2020)- for bass flute, bass clarinet, bass oboe & live-electronics

Fragment of a laptop duo improvisation of Richard Barrett & Stefan Prins, recorded during a residency at Happy New Ears Festival 2008 (Kortrijk).

Barrett-Prins laptop-duo improv (2008)

Klangforum Wien, cond. Enno Poppe (from SUB ROSA RECORDS SR352 "Fremdkörper" - www.subrosa.net)

Fremdkörper #3 (mit Michael Jackson) (Stefan Prins, 2010)

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

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