Peter Nagle: composer, peformer, sound artist
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      • The complete consort dancing together
      • The Gull Catchers
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      • Until I die there will be sounds
      • What will survive of us is love
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      • The Ballads of the Four Seasons
      • Congregation
      • Haydn
      • Miles After Midnight
      • Musicking
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      • To The Furthest Shore
    • Small Ensemble (3-5 players) >
      • String Quartet No. 3
      • Haydn (String Quartet No. 2)
      • String Quartet No. 1
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      • Cantus
      • Heaven in a Wild Flower
      • Here
      • The Line to the South and the West
      • The Mountain
      • Le tombeau de Feldman
      • Parts and Poems of the Body
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      • Piece for Violin and Piano
      • Six Pieces for Melodica
      • Sonata for Cello and Piano
      • Sonata for Violin and Piano
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Works by Year

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2021
The End of Radio (Recorded Media)
Invisible Cities
(Recorded Media, dance soundtrack)
The Thing With Feathers (Film)
On Mute (Film)
Nexus 1-5 (Recorded Media)
2020
Fifty Breaths (Recorded Media)
Ausland (Recorded Media)
A Place Apart (Recorded Media)
Drone Sweet Drone (Marginalia 12) (Recorded Media)
Every Last Bar (piano)
A Dub Reaction (Recorded Media)
Air and Time (Recorded Media)
2019
The Congregation Between the Induction of my Divine Impulse is Exalted (Ensemble and electronics)
​The Fade In Time (Piano & Melodica)
The Mountain (Horn & Soundtrack)
Parts and Poems of the Body (Cor Anglais & Bass Clarinet)
An Equal and Opposite Reaction (Recorded Media)
2018
22K (Recorded Media)
Breaking Point (Recorded Media)
Buds (Recorded Media)
The Convalescent (Installation/ Mixed Media)
2017
Nowhere to Go But Down (Recorded Media)
Exit Music (Ensemble and Recorded Media)
The Optimist (Recorded media)
​Prayer and Void (Recorded Media)
2016
This machine is ineffective against fascists (Recorded Media)
​tightrope walker (voice & ensemble)
To the Furthest Shore (Recorder Orchestra)
Automatic Writing
 (Recorded Media)


2015
Six Pieces for Melodica
Fountainhead (Installation with optional performance)
The Line to the South and the West (Bass Flute, Bassoon and Drones)
Here (cello)

SeaSol (cello)
Sixteen Conflicts and a Resolution
(open scoring)
Ronan Point (strings and electronics)
2014
Water Music (Recorded Media)
Sing (Recorded Media)
ThirteenEightTwentyFourteenFortyFour 

(Recorded Media)
Laudnum Bunches 
(Recorded Media)
Barbara Allen
 (Recorded Media)
2013
Adytum (cello and drones)
ThirteenEightTwentyThirteenFortyThree (cello and drones)
The Ballads of the Four Seasons (voice and ensemble)
Cantus (alto flute with optional drones)
Ascending (ensemble)
Toccata harmonica (String quartet)
For Steve (solo cello)
Tone-Float (remix of Gabriel Prokofiev “Float Dance”)
2012
Theotokos Mix (remix of Pussy Riot “Punk Prayer”)
Olympia Has Fallen (drones)
Until I die there will be sounds (orchestra)
The Gull Catchers (orchestra)
2011
Shifting Night Shadow (cello and drones)
Last rays of sunset on a far horizon (cello and drones)
Casting a Stone (processed sound)
Canyon (cello and processed sound)
Forty-Niner (processed sound)

2006-2010
Piece for violin and piano (2010)
String Quartet No.3 (2010)
Fourth Sonata for Piano (2009)
Haydn (String Quartet No.2) (2008)
Haydn (orchestra/open instrumentation, 2008)
Musicking (open instrumentation, 2008)
Piano Sonata No.3 (2008)
String Quartet No.1 (2008)
High Windows (piano, 2006)
Le tombeau de Feldman (viola, 2006)

1994-2005
Piano Piece 07/07/2005
Piano Piece 14.II.05
"The complete consort dancing together" (orchestra, 2005)
What will survive of us is love (orchestra, 2002)
Heaven in a Wild Flower (cello, 2001)
Piano Sonata No.2 (2000)
Infinite Breathing (strings, 2000)
​​Piano Sonata No.1 (1999)
Miles After Midnight (ensemble, 1996)
Solar (recorded media, 1994)
untitled piece (recorded media, 1994)