Peter Nagle: composer, performer, sound artist
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    • 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
      • Congregation
      • Haydn
      • Miles After Midnight
      • Musicking
      • tightrope walker
      • To The Furthest Shore
    • Small Ensemble (3-5 players) >
      • String Quartet No. 3
      • Haydn (String Quartet No. 2)
      • String Quartet No. 1
    • Solo & Duo >
      • 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
      • Piano music
      • Piece for Violin and Piano
      • Six Pieces for Melodica
      • Sonata for Cello and Piano
      • Sonata for Violin and Piano
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      • Automatic Writing
      • Fountainhead
      • Invisible Cities
      • Ronan Point
      • Water Music
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Recordings

As well as the releases below you can find all kinds of experiments and demos on my SoundCloud page.
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Making Music Together (2025)
Live performances from theMusic and/as Process Conference at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2023
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Marginalia 23 (2025)
Documentation of Where Does a Body End?, a performance installation present ed in 2023.
The final (for now) installment in the Marginalia series.
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Marginalia 22 (2025)
Documentation of Two Rooms, a sound installation from 2019.
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Mellifera 25.03.25 (2025)
Live improv with Claire Zakiewicz and Georgia Morgan Turner
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Mellifera 17.03.25 (2025)
Live improv with Claire Zakiewicz, Petra Haller, Emily Suzanne Shapiro andLoz Speyer
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Mellifera 27.01.25 (2025)
Live improv with Claire Zakiewicz, Petra Haller, Emily Suzanne Shapiro, Loz Speyer and Sofia Vaismann Maturana.
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Mellfera 05.09.24 (2024)
Live improv with Emily Suzanne Shapiro and Claire Zakiewicz
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Beestaara Studies, vol. 1 (2024)
Six improvisations on the Beestaara Cello, an experimental 20-stringed instrument.
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Mellifera 26-06-24 (2024)
Live improv with Claire Zakiewicz.
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Mellifera 09-06-24 (2024)
Live improv with Emily Suzanne Shapiro and Claire Zakiewicz.
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Ouroboros (2024)
23 track nonlinear sound installation for the home.
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Mellifera 27.03.2024 (2024)
Live improv with Charlotte O'Keefe and Claire Zakiewicz.
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Mellifera 21.02.2024 (2024)
Live improv with Charlotte O'Keefe, Emily Suzanne Shapiro, Petra Haller and Claire Zakiewicz.
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Marginalia 21 (2023)
3 track album
Recordings made in lockdown, 2020
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Mellifera 19/10/2023 (2023)
2 track album
Live improv with Abe Mamet, Emily Suzanne Shaprio, Rachel Musson and Claire Zakiewicz.
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Marginalia 20 (2023)
2 track EP
Processed speech
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Marginalia 19 (2023)
2 track album
Live solo cello improv
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Here Comes Everybody (2023)
Single
Live improv
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Marginalia 18 (2022)
1 track album
Cello + Electronics imrpov
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Invisible Cities (2022)
6 track album
Availbale on cassette/DL
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Marginalia 17 (2022)
1 track EP
Drone improvisation
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Psychogeography (2022)
7 track album
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Marginalia 16 (2022)
5 track album
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Nexus 1-5 (2021)
Five 4-track EPs
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Nexus 1
Nexus 2
Nexus 3
Nexus 4
Nexus 5

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A Christmas Gift for You from Milk & Cheese
(2020)

5-track EP by Milk & Cheese
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We Just Want to Be Normal (Milk & Cheese 2020)
10-track album by Milk & Cheese
Features a new recording of Clock Watching
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Fifty Breaths (2020)
14-track album of field recordings
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Ausland (Kapiten 2020)
Single by Kapiten
Motorik/Drone guitar instrumental
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Parts and Poems of the Body (Hacha Duo 2020)
10 track album
Performed by Hacha Duo
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(Also available on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes etc.
Read more about Parts and Poems of the Body

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A Place Apart (2020)
4 track E.P.
Recorded in Isolation, March 2020.
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Self Isolating Congregation (Linear Obsessional 2020)
21 track compilation featuring Distant Social.
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Marginalia 15 (2020)
3 Track Album.
Hardcore sine drone. Recorded in 2015.
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Marginalia 14 (2020)
1 track E.P.
Deep Drone/ electronics. Recorded 2014.
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Marginalia 13 (2020)
1 track album.
Cello and electronics drone. Recorded 2013.
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Marginalia 12 (2020)
3 track E.P.
Home made drones created in isolation.
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Marginalia 11 (2020)
3 track album.
Drone tracks from the installation The Convalescent. Recorded 2018.
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>>>>>>Self Isolating Compilation<<<<<< (Linear Obsessional, 2020)
85 track compilation featuring A Place Apart
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In The Chinks of the World Machine (Hundred Years Gallery, 2020)
9 track compilation featuring Balancing on Air.
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A Dub Reaction (2020)
Remixes of the tracks from An Equal and Opposite Reaction.
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Air and Time (2020)
5 track E.P.
Melodica and ari pump based drone.
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Marginalia 10 (2020)
1 track album.
Ambient drone. Recorded 2011.
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Marginalia 9 (2019)

5 track album.
Cello drones and loops. Recorded September 2017.
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Marginalia 8 (2019)

4 track album.
Live performances and home recordings - cello, guitar, feedback, loops.
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Marginalia 7 (2019)

1 track album.
Ambient drone.
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​Marginalia 6 (2019)

4 track mini album.
Doom and dark ambient guitar solos.
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​Marginalia 5 (2019)

3 track album.
Old school ambient from ca. 1994.
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An Equal and Opposite Reaction (2019)

5 track album
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Marginalia 4 (2018)

1-track E.P.
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Marginalia 3 (2018)

1-track E.P.
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​Marginalia 2 (2018)

1-track album.
Cello/electronica/drone. Recorded 2012.
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Marginalia 1 (2018)

1-track album.
Cello/ electronica/ drone. Recorded 2011.
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Buds (2018)

5-track E.P. of improvised microtonal electric guitar.
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​  A View from a Hill
(2017)


  Compilation album featuring Nowhere to Go but Down.
  Available from Linear Obsessional


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  The Optimist (2017)
 5-track E.P. inspired by the debacle of Brexit (with occasional sideswipes across the
 ocean towards the USA's presidential debacle).
 Metal, folk, drones, improv, assorted weirdness.
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This machine is ineffective against fascists (2016)

Solo guitar, single take, no overdubs.

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Automatic Writing (2016)

10 tracks recorded in February 2016. Found objects, field recordings, collage, untuned/ detuned instruments, electrical components, doom metal.
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SeaSol (2015)

Five Improvisations for cello/ voice

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Water Music (2014)

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Possible Worlds Vol.3 (2014)

Compilation featuring Fragments of the First Eternal Melody

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Canyon (2012/2015)

Cello and other sounds

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