Composer, performer, educator
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Ouroboros
Ouroboros is a sound installation. Originally conceived as an installation for the home, it has also been presented as a site-specific environment for creative and reflective activity at Safehouse Peckham (2024), Trinity Laban (2024, 2025) and Goldsmiths College (2025). If you would like to host an iteration of Ouroboros gt in touch via the contact form.
You can read about the creation process for Ouroboros in my PhD thesis.
Rising of the Lights
Improvising duo with Jonny Martin. Entangled sounds, unpredicatble outcomes.
Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities is a dance soundtrack created for Scirocco Dance Theatre's 2021 production.
Once up on a cube
Once up on a cube is an outdoor performance by Scirocco Dance Theatre for which I created and performed sound. You can read more about the creation process in my PhD thesis.
Where Does a Body End?
Where Does a Body End? is a performance-installation created in collaboration with Irene Fiordilino and first presented in 2023. You can read more about the creation process in my PhD thesis. If you'd like to host this work, please get in touch via the contact form.
Sounding, moving and painting
I've been collaborating with the performance painter Claire Zakiewicz since 2021, exploring painting and musicking as entangled and embodied acts, both as a duo and in collaboration with musicians and dancers.
Biography
Peter Nagle is a composer-performer, sonic artist, educator and researcher based in London. His practice encompasses improvisation, alternative tunings, drone and loop textures, electronica and movement, often in multi- and trans-disciplinary contexts. His research interests revolve around identities and approaches in transdisciplinary collaboration, and ambiguity and uncertainty as aesthetic strategies.
Peter studied composition with David Harold Cox at Sheffield University, and later with Michael Finnissy. He obtained his doctorate in creative practice in 2024 at Trinity Laban, where he also teaches. Regular collaborations include Rising of the Lights with Jonny Martin and an ongoing multidisciplinary collaboration with Claire Zakiewicz, Petra Haller and Emily Suzanne Shapiro. Dance collaborations include Invisible Cities (2022) and Once up on a cube (premiered 2022; Totally Thames Festival, 2023), both with Scirocco Dance Theatre Company. Ouroboros, an installation/performance created in collaboration with Carla Rees, was first presented in 2024. Recordings include An Equal and Opposite Reaction (Linear Obsessional, 2019) and Sophie Stone’s Amalgamations (2022, Sawyer Editions).
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Reviews
"Peter Nagle fares a little better, eking out a relatively spry melody from the cello he seems to be in the process of wrestling to the ground like a bear, one leg wrapped around the bout in a quasi-erotic entanglement."
- Robert Barry, review of The Text Score Dataset, Tempo April 2023
"draws elements of free improvisation, composition and sound art into a quiet vortex where restrained harmony amplifies into dry, hermetic mantras and the smallest of incidents are magnified to shattering proportions."
- Paul Margree, review of An Equal and Opposite Reaction, We Need No Swords
"Strong compositions, great playing, and packed with brow-furrowing themes of doubt, alienation and anxiety…what’s not to like?"
- Ed Pinsent, review of An Equal and Opposite Reaction, The Sound Projector
"Nuggets of pure gold... floating in a sea of shit." - Michael Finnissy
"Peter Nagle, cellist and (I think) composer." - Norman Lebrecht
"Left several things to be desired" - Musical Opinion
"Brooding Stillness and violent activity... successfully avoided the clichés" - Pauline Hall, the Guardian
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