amplify #126 — Jonathan Nangle

Amplify returns with a conversation with composer Jonathan Nangle, recorded during this year’s ISCM World New Music Days 2025 in Lisbon in June. Presented by Jonathan Grimes, the episode centres on Nangle’s work Artificial Blissful State — performed at the festival by saxophonist Henrique Portovedo — a piece that reflects on our relationship with technology and how we are increasingly controlled by it.

Show Notes

• Jonathan Nangle
  • CMC website
• Henrique Portovedo
• ISCM World New Music Days
• Crash Ensemble

Music

• Jonathan Nangle - Artificial Blissful State, Ian Finlay (saxophone)
• Jonathan Nangle - Blue Haze of Deep Time, Crash Ensemble
• Excerpt from live performance of Artificial Blissful State performed by Henrique Portovedo at the ISCM World New Music Days 2025 in Lisbon on 3 June 2025.