PAUSE by Jonathan Nangle

The music to PAUSE was first composed by Jonathan Nangle in 2015 for violin, viola, cello, and double bass, accompanied by a video ballet displayed at The Dock Arts Centre in Leitrim. In May 2022, the Royal Irish Academy of Music's Ensemble Interforma and Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris' Ensemble NEXT came together to record a new version for expanded strings at Dublin's Windmill Lane Studios.

The work is inspired by the idea of data glitches in both music and visual media – a snippet of music by early twentieth-century American composer Charles Ives is processed, rearranged and deliberately glitched, serving as a springboard to new material.

The PAUSE digital art installation project continues this journey of creating further new material via an international collaboration of artists (Lucas Bergeret and François Longo) across interdisciplinary fields of performance, composition, image, science and technology.

The PAUSE Installation Project was designed to support the strategic partnership between RIAM and Conservatoire de Paris, which was agreed upon in the framework of the Ireland-France Joint Plan of Action (2021-2025) signed by Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney TD and Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, during the visit of President Macron to Ireland on August 26th, 2021. PAUSE strengthens collaborations between Ireland and France in the areas of creation, performance, education and technology.

Jonathan Nangle is a composer whose work explores many diverse fields ranging from notated acoustic and electro-acoustic composition, through live and spatially distributed electronics, to video, field recording, interactive sound installation and electronic improvisation.

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