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

"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)

Ce qu'en pense le crépuscule...

Form

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

The spike organ or nail chello (sic) is thought to originate from an early middle Europe monastic sect, the Iscariotians. They may have used the instrument to accompany their lengthy rituals contemplating the pain of the crucifixion.  

The Iscariotians are said to have been wiped out by returning crusaders at the behest of emperor Leopold III. Other commentators have suggested that the whole story may have been a constructed  alibi for the defeated crusaders plunder and desecration of the brewery of ..Santa Quaffa...


A possible surviving 'chello' object, made from of lignum vitae and iron, resides in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen. Its interpretation is not without controversy with some critics asserting the object is nothing more than a kind of agricultural implement, though this does not explain its cruciform shape and carved decoration.

In 1972 the scholar . Roland de Févin was granted permission to investigate the Rouen Chello, explore its sound making capabilities and make recordings. his theory was that the instrument was to be played by a rosined bow.  Unfortunately de Févin's playing and handling resulted in two of the nails fracturing and so the investigation was terminated after only one day. The single recording de Févin made was never released but it was played to audiences on an European lecture tour he conducted shortly before his death in 1974. 

It has been subsequently alleged that de Févin's  investigation  coincided with the great fire at  Nantes cathedral. This lead to several occultist conspiracy theories, most notably retold in the pulp fiction novel Blood Nail-(Brownie Dane,1975) much of the plot was lifted for the Italian soft core film Sistero Orgasma (1977) where the action was switched away from a monastery to a scantily clad convent.(citation needed) 

On the film soundtrack, the sounds of the Chello were replicated by experimental electronic synthesiser the achoirorium- itself the  subject of intrigue- as its extremely high operating voltages caused the death of its creator  Luigi soon after the recording session.


This recording was made in 1980 by UK avant geographer Forster Iberix who attended several of de Févin's lectures.  He set about building a replica device and making reconstructions of the Iscariotarian mass based on a column of scribbled numbers  which appear reverso  in one of Leonardo da Vinci's codex's (Coded notebooks). The recording was released on an untitled flexi disk issued by cult French label sordide sentimental -who now deny any knowledge of its existence. It does not appear on their official discography.  Improbably- Haringey local studies library, London, has a copy in their archive. The library does not provide any method of playback for the flexidisc and items from the archive cannot be withdrawn -so some subterfuge was involved in me getting this track taped. Whilst the disk was in my possession an inexplicable number of minor disasters befell me -so I can assure you I hurriedly returned it.

disquiet0385
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The Nail Chello (disquiet0385)

Vocal From Dani Kirby
Sample From No Mates Ensemble
Arrangement Guitar and Synth from Usure

Brume (Dani Kirby/No Mates Ensemble/Usure)

Marco Lucchi : ring modulator and generative sounds

22 marzo 2020

bedroom music no. 1

World has slowed down. 
Hidden beneath a skin of fear.

All Silver was created during the first days of the Corona shutdown.
Made with passion and modular synths.

Sound and artwork by Thomas Breuer

All Silver

all silver

heilbar

A Light Divides (Naviarhaiku 337)

From the latest self-release Starfish & the sonic tonalities
https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/album/starfish-the-sonic-tonalities
The Absence started from listening to an old recording of the Wind Quintet by Serbian composer Ljubica Marić. After learning the composition well, I simply fell in love with the noise hidden in-between sounds produced by an old vinyl crackling and web compression. I made myself a little drone and soon realized the psycho-acoustic qualities of it. The narrative is wrapped around the noise pollution, from both below and above the Adriatic sea.

The Absence

O.V.  https://soundcloud.com/noirmoderne/espace-negatif

Third Space (2016-2018) - FRAGMENT

Stefan Prins

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