Sarah Angliss

Sarah Angliss is a British composer, multi-instrumentalist and sound historian whose music combines ancient instruments with theremin, Max, electronics and her own robotic inventions. She performs her music live and also composes for theatre. In November 2018 she received an artists award from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.[1]

Angliss performing at Prima Vista in 2015

Biography

Angliss began performing in folk clubs as a teenager and studied Early Music alongside a degree in Electroacoustic Engineering (University of Salford). She also has a Masters in Robotics (University of Sussex). She performs live with human co-performers (chiefly percussionist Stephen Hiscock) and musical automata, machines she has devised and built since 2005 to "give her performance an arresting and uncanny physical presence."[2]

She has created music and sounds which blur the line between sound design and composed music for a number of theatrical works including The Twilight Zone, based on the 1950s television series, at the Almeida ("I’m trying to make sound that gets under your skin"[3]) The Effect at the National Theatre, Once in a Lifetime at the Young Vic and The Hairy Ape at The Old Vic and Park Avenue Armory in New York.

She has written and presented the radio shows The Bird Fancyer's Delight[4] and Echo in a Bottle[5] (part of the Pursuit of Beauty series) for BBC Radio 4. In April 2017 Angliss released her solo album Ealing Feeder,[6] described as 'a subtle gem' by Robert Barry writing in The Wire[7] and the "most inventive album I've heard in a long while" by Simon Reynolds writing in 4 Columns.[8]

She wrote a short biography of Daphne Oram for the republication of Oram's treatise on sound and electronics An Individual Note [9]. This was funded by a crowdfunding campaign organised by the Oram Trust[10] in 2016.

Angliss was a resident artist at Limehouse Town Hall[11] and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Sound Practice Research Unit, Goldsmiths.[12]

In 2017, Angliss rearranged the compositions of Bernard Herrmann for a reworking of The Twilight Zone.[13]

In October 2018, Angliss began writing a chamber opera, Giant, supported by a Jerwood Opera Writing Fellowship and Snape Music. Giant tells the story of the Charles Byrne, known as The Irish Giant, who lived in fear that his remains would go on public display, against his wishes.[14] The piece blends voices with viola da gamba, clavicymbalum and electronics.

References
  1. "Awards for Artists - Sarah Angliss". Paul Hamlyn Foundation. 20 November 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  2. "Sarah Angliss website". Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  3. "Twilight Zone composer Sarah Angliss: 'I'm trying to make sound that gets under your skin'". The Stage. 12 December 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  4. "BBC Radio 4 – The Bird Fancyer's Delight". BBC.
  5. "BBC Radio 4 – Pursuit of Beauty, Echo in a Bottle". BBC.
  6. "Album: Ealing Feeder – Sarah Angliss". www.sarahangliss.com.
  7. "Listen: Sarah Angliss music and video – The Wire". The Wire Magazine – Adventures In Modern Music. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  8. "Sarah Angliss". 4 Columns. 18 August 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  9. "DAPHNE ORAM – AN INDIVIDUAL NOTE – Fused Magazine". Fused Magazine. 17 June 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  10. "The Trust". Daphne Oram. 10 July 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  11. "London's Lost Worlds of Sound". Limehouse Town Hall. 20 September 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  12. "PureGold presents: Sounding the Great Hall". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  13. Ede, Christian (28 November 2017). "Sarah Angliss To Rework Bernard Herrmann's Archive". The Quietus. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  14. Correspondent, Hannah Devlin Science (22 June 2018). "'Irish giant' may finally get respectful burial after 200 years on display". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
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