PETER NAGLE
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Peter Nagle is a composer and cellist based in London. His music combines elements of improvisation, extended just intonation and other alternative/ microtonal tunings, drones, loops and electronica.

New Music: Dada Sounds

4/2/2016

 
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For the first of what I hope will be several interesting projects this year, I've contributed a new track to Dada Sounds, an online project celebrating 100 years of Dada. The site goes live on Friday 5 February, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Cabaret Voltaire.

Parrots of Abbey Wood is based on a field recording I made in October 2015 of the sounds of the colony of parakeets that resides in Lesnes Abbey Woods in southeast London. Collage, processing and chance operations were all used to create the track. Everything you hear in it comes from the original recording.

Dada is one of those artistic movements that began as something shocking and outré, and has now become so enmeshed in our culture that we hardly notice it anymore. I'm very pleased to be a part of a project celebrating a movement that's had a profound effect on my on work, in ways that I'm both conscious of and also (re)discovering every day.


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  • News
  • About
    • Biography
    • Photos
    • What they said
  • Music
    • Orchestral >
      • The complete consort dancing together
      • The Gull Catchers
      • Infinite Breathing
      • Pictures at an Exhibition
      • Until I die there will be sounds
      • What will survive of us is love
    • Large Ensemble (6+ players) >
      • The Ballads of the Four Seasons
      • To The Furthest Shore
      • Haydn
      • Miles After Midnight
      • Musicking
      • tightrope walker
    • Chamber >
      • String Quartet No. 3
      • Haydn (String Quartet No. 2)
      • String Quartet No. 1
    • Solo & Duo >
      • Cantus
      • For Steve
      • Heaven in a Wild Flower
      • Here
      • The Line to the South and the West
      • Le tombeau de Feldman
      • Piano music
      • Piece for Violin and Piano
      • Six Pieces for Melodica
      • Sonata for Cello and Piano
      • Sonata for Violin and Piano
    • Electronic & Recorded Media >
      • Automatic Writing
      • Fountainhead
      • Ronan Point
      • Water Music
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