MEDIA - WRITTEN

TEXTS & INTERVIEWS (by others) - selection

"Ik wil niet die componist op zijn zolderkamer zijn"

Joep Christenhusz, NRC Handelsblad, 23/2/2022, p.14-15

Interview by Joep Christenhusz about the upcoming premiere of inhabit_inhibit at Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij, Amsterdam, on 24.2.2022 by ASKO|Schönberg, soloists of Ensemblekollektiv Berlin, cond. Baldur Brönnimann & sound engineer Florian Bogner.

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Stefan Prins - inhabit_inhibit. "Ik wil zeker geen nihilistische muziek maken"

Frank Mulder, De Groene Amsterdammer, 6/1/2022, p.14-15

Essay by Frank Mulder about the upcoming premiere of inhabit_inhibit at Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij, Amsterdam, on 24.2.2022 by ASKO|Schönberg, soloists of Ensemblekollektiv Berlin, cond. Baldur Brönnimann & sound engineer Florian Bogner.

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Unter Strom, Das E-Gitarrenkonzert "under_current" von Stefan Prins

Tobias Schick, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 1/2022, p.44-47

Essay and analysis by Tobias Schick of under_current, as performed at Donaueschinger Musiktage, on 15.10.2021 by Yaron Deutsch (electric guitar), Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, cond. Ilan Volkov.

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Taking a walk beside Nadar: new times, new media, new sounds

Annemarie Peeters, Tempo, #76, 2022, p.62-68, Cambridge University Press

Essay by Annemarie Peeters (translated by Thomas Moore) about Nadar's Corona version of FITTINGinSIDE. (For Dutch version, see below)

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The Politics of Poetry. Piano Hero (2011-2017) by Stefan Prins

Anne Holzmüller, in Movement to Sound, Sound to Movement. Interpreting multimedia piano compositions, Ed. Rei Nakamura, Marion Saxer, and Simon Tönies, Wolke Verlag, 2021 (p. 17-31)

Essay about the Piano Hero Cycle, published in a wonderful book that focuses entirely on multimedia piano compositions, edited by Rei Nakamura, Marion Saxer and Simon Tönies. The book also contains my article Interpretative and Performative Approaches to Performing music with integrated video. Case Study: Piano Hero #1, #2, & #4. (p.213-224)

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Op wandel met Nadar: nieuwe tijden, nieuwe media en klanken

Annemarie Peeters, in RektoVerso,

Annemarie Peeters follows the Nadar Ensemble during the Corona Lockdown and the creation of a new version of my composition FITTINGinSIDE.

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On Political Audiences: an Argument in Favour of Preaching to the Choir

Uri Agnon, in Tempo 75 (296), Cambridge University Press, 2021 (p. 57-70)

Thought provoking essay critiquing the "preaching to the choir" argument through the lens of compositions of mine, Sarah Nicolls, Pamela Z and Soosan Lolavar, as well as the author of the article.

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The Politics of Poetry. Piano Hero (2011-2017) by Stefan Prins

Anne Holzmüller, in Nuove Musiche 5, University of Pisa Press, 2018 (p.213-34)

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Der "digitale Körper" in einigen Kompositionen von Stefan Prins und Alexander Schubert

Gianluigi Mattietti, in Anklaenge 2019. Sicherheit - Risiko - Freiheit. Fragen der (Un-)Sicherheit in der Komposition, Aufführung, Rezeption und Programmierung neuer Musik. Wiener Jahrbuch für musikwissenschaft, Hollitzer Verlag, Wien, 2021, p.67-79

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Essay (1) for booklet of Augmented

Tim Rutherford-Johnson, CD+DVD Booklet for Augmented, April 2019

Essay about my works for the release of the DVD+CD box "Augmented" by Kairos.

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Essay (2) for booklet of Augmented

Pieter Matthynssens, CD+DVD Booklet for "Augmented", April 2019

Essay about my works for the release of the DVD+CD box "Augmented" by Kairos. (Dutch version on request)

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"Intime Konstellationen. Stefan Prins über Third Space mit Barbara Eckle

Barbara Eckle, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 3/2018, June 2018

Interview with Barbara Eckle about my collaboration with choreographer Daniel Linehan for the Münchener Biennale 2018.

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"Listen with heatphones, please..."

Oscar Escudero, Sul Ponticello, nr. 36, 3/2017

Essay about the digital aesthetical breach, mentioning "Generation Kill", "Mirror Box Extensions" a.o.

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"Le Musiche Più belle dal 2000 a oggi"

Gianluigi Mattietti, Classic Voice, 212, 1/2017

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"Musikalische Phantomatik. Die virtuellen Realitäten des belgischen Komponisten Stefan Prins"

Monika Pasiecznik, Positionen, nr. 107, June 2016

Portrait from the perspective of "virtual reality" in my work.

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"Verstrengelde dimensies. Stefan Prins,tussen werkelijkheid&schijn"

Joep Christenhusz, De Groene Amsterdammer, 19 May 2016

Article about "Mirror Box Extensions" in the context of the performance of this piece by the Nadar Ensemble at the Holland Festival on June 3rd 2016.

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"Darmstadt New Wave Modernism"

Celeste Oram, Tempo, Cambridge University Press, January 2015

4 case studies from the Darmstadt Summercourse 2014, a.o. "Generation Kill"

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"Alien Bodies. Stefan Prins' Aesthetics of Music"

Tomasz Biernacki, Dissonance nr. 125, March 2014

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"Jeg har alltid bildet av min bestemor i hodet når jeg komponerer" (double interview with Carola Baukholt)

Emil Bernhardt, Lydskrit Online, 24 February 2014

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"Neoawangarda epoki cyfrowej. O estetyce muzycznej Stefana Prinsa"

Tomasz Biernacki, Glissando 22, October 2013

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"Akustyczne vs. koncepcyjne" - review and interview

Monika Pasiecznik, Ruch Muzycny 15, September 2013

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"Äussere und innere Klangwelt. Über den Einsatz von Video bei den Darmstädter Ferienkursen"

Friederike Kenneweg, Musiktexte 135, November 2012

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"Artistic Invasion: Belgians in Darmstadt"

Monika Pasiecznik, World New Music Magazine, October 2012

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"Dances with Robots and the Song of Algorithms. On a Few Flemish Composers Between Music and Technology"

Matthias Parent & Maarten Quanten, World New Music Magazine, October 2012

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"6 Belgian Composers on Music Today"

Maarten Beirens & Maarten Quanten, World New Music Magazine, October 2012

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"Digitale Infiltrationen. Die gehaltsästhetische Wende der Neuen Musik"

Harry Lehmann, Dissonanz 117, March 2012

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