PAUSE

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.