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Sarah Angliss setting up an Etherwave Pro theremin (photo by Sin Bozkurt)

SARAH

ANGLISS

SARAH ANGLISS

composer, performer and sound designer

“Sombre, haunting…Angliss’ electronics are subtle, subversive, sly”


“An utterly compelling soundworld…astonishingly beautiful…as music it’s miraculous”

“The music’s eerie metallic edge as transfixing as the moral ambiguities of the 18th-century story”


“The otherworldly music adds an extra layer, questioning, uneasy, timeless, that elevates the issues involved to a higher level.”


“Strange but compelling…spine-shiveringly ethereal”


“Music possesssed of an eerie instability…a shimmering, minimalist masterpiece”

“The power of Angliss’ work comes from its chilling atmospheric intimacy”


An Ivor Novello Award winning composer and sound designer, creating new music and soundworlds for film, theatre, opera, dance, installations and her own live performance. Sarah’s work seamlessly combines voices and instruments with finely wrought, bespoke electronic effects.

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Sarah on stage of the BFI, with a still from a silent gothic horror on the screen

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Above: The Ealing Feeder – robotic polyphonic carillon
Giant – a new opera, Aldeburgh Festival 2023. Excerpt feat. Melanie Pappenheim, Héloïse Werner, Steven Beard and Jonathan Gunthorpe; excerpt feat. Gweneth Ann Rand – still photos by Marc Brenner; video produced by Matt Jolly. Vault – New music for silent gothic film (BFI).

“The power of Angliss’ work comes from its chilling atmospheric intimacy”


“The otherworldly music adds an extra layer, questioning, uneasy, timeless, that elevates the issues involved to a higher level.”


Showreels

Playlist

Seleccted album tracks and music for film and theatre.

Music from Sarah Angliss

Selected Works

View more projects on the portfolio page.

Giant

Composing a new opera which opened Aldeburgh Festival 2023. Giant tells the story of surgeon John Hunter’s obsession with Charles Byrne – a man he would ultimately betray in one of the most disturbing acts in the era of the grave robbers.

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Amulet

Avenging female voices meet percussion, ancient instruments and otherwordly electronic effects, in this feature film score by Sarah Angliss for UK horror film Amulet, written and directed by Romola Garai. Premiered Sundance 2020, now on release.

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Sensitive Eileen, with her 'arms flung wide'

Sensitive Eileen

Contemporary voice and the sounds of 1920s radio take flight along a London street, in this new piece exploring resonances between early wireless and telepathy. For Nick Ryan’s VoiceLine, a 39-speaker array which stretched 170m along the The Strand, outside the old BBC Marconi building.

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The Hairy Ape (Eugene O'Neill)

The Hairy Ape

Composition and sound design for The Hairy Ape (1922) – Eugene O’Neill’s expressionist masterpiece which uses the overwhelming sounds of the engine room on an ocean liner to explore dehumanisation and the shock of modernity. At The Old Vic, London, and Park Avenue Armory, New York. Directed by Richard Jones.

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Sailors on a choppy sea Wellcome Trust - CH Andrews)

Buying the Wind

In production. This timely collaboration with musicians and poet Hannah Lowe explores the UK’s deep connection with wind and tide. With thanks to PRS for Music Foundation and Britten Pears Arts.

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The Twilight Zone - Almeida

The Twilight Zone

Composition and sound design for the for the first official stage production of The Twilight Zone in 2017. Adapted by Anne Washburn from the classic 1960s CBS television series and is directed by Richard Jones. At The Almeida Theatre and Ambassadors (West End), London.

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Shows, screenings and events

FRI 8 - FRI 15

MARCH 2024

LINBURY THEATRe, ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, LONDON

Giant - an electroacoustic chamber opera from composer Sarah Angliss, poet Ross Sutherland and director Sarah Fahie

THURS 14

DEC 2023

IKLECTIK, WATERLOO, LONDON

Sarah Angliss with Amy Cutler, Species Piracy, Howlround and more

TUES 26

SEPT 2023

CAFE OTO, DALSTON, LONDON

Sarah Angliss and Aine O'Dwyer - a Sound Fjord event

FRI 25

AUG 2023

WUTHERING BYTES, HEBDEN BRIDGE

Talk about Daphne Oram at this festival of open-source hardware users

SAT 10

June 2023

ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL

Giant - second performance of this electroacoustic chamber opera. Composer Sarah Angliss; librettist Ross Sutherland (directed by Sarah Fahie)

FRI 9

June 2023

ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL

Giant - world premiere of this electroacoustic chamber opera. Composer Sarah Angliss; librettist Ross Sutherland (directed by Sarah Fahie)

FRI 10

FEB 2023

THE STRAND, LONDON

A new composition, in motion along The Strand outside Somerset House, playing on Nick Ryan's 39-speaker array The Voiceline

SAT 4

FEB 2023

BBC RADIO 4

Presenting Knock Knock, a history of sound effects - produced by Michael Umney and Ed Baxter (Resonance FM)

SAT 23

JULY 2022

THE ROSE HILL, BRIGHTON

A live performance at the Wire Magazine's 40th birthday party, for The Outer Church

WED 16

JUNE 2021

THE ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN FILM COMPOSERS (ONLINE)

Sarah Angliss talks to writer Valerie Manahan about her approach to scoring for film, theatre and the live music stage.

WED 14

OCT 2020

Auditório CCOP, PORTO

A live performance for the Festival Internacional de Marionetas do Porto.

SUN 12

JAN 2020

CAFE OTO, DALSTON, LONDON

A live performance for The School of Noise 5th birthday party - with Prof. Sophie Scott and DJ Jarvis Cocker.

MON 22

JULY 2019

Supernormal, BRAZIERS PARK

A live performance of Air Loom at Supernormal – a three-day festival of experimental arts and music.

SAT 20

JULY 2019

Supersonic festival, birmingham

A live performance of Air Loom at Supersonic, Birmingham’s internationally renowned festival of experimental music.

MON 8

APRIL 2019

BBC Hall at Swansea Studios

A live performance of Air Loom in one of the finest acoustics in the UK, the studio in which Richard Burton made his 1963 record of Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood. Curated by Rhodri Davies.