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SARAH ANGLISS

composer, performer and sound designer

Showreels

Selected Works: talks and radio

The Bird Fancyer’s Delight

Centuries before the advent of the phonograph, captured songbirds were trained to sing fashionable melodies in the home. In this documentary for BBC Radio 4, Sarah explores the surprising history of teaching songbirds to sing. Produced by Neil McCarthy.

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Sarah Angliss in semi-anechoic chamber

Echo in a Bottle

Through music, poetry, archive and the sound engineer’s toolbox, Sarah Angliss explores our enduring and sometimes deathly fascination with the echo. A Radio 4 documentary produced by Peregrine Andrews and Farshoreline.

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playing a thunder sheet

Knock Knock

Presenting and co-researching this history of sound effects for BBC Radio Archive on 4. The show marks 200 years since Thomas De Quincey wrote On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth, his early consideration of the powerful psychological impact of sound on stage. Produced by Resonance FM.

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Source: National Museum of American History

Loving the Machine – TEDx talk

In this optimistic view of mechanisation for TEDx Brighton (2011), Sarah reveals some surprising connections between two types of dance music, inspired by the relentless beat of the factory machine, which flourished two centuries apart. The earliest was devised by women working in Lancashire cotton mills.

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Cold War Sector Control Room

Horlicks and Armageddon

Researched and devised by Sarah Angliss, this show delves into rarely seen archives and personal testimony to tell the story of Britain’s secretive nuclear survivalists. Awarded most groundbreaking show of Brighton Festival and Fringe 2013.

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Infrasonic – haunted music?

A controlled psychological experiment, in the form of two back-to-back concerts. These concerts were highly unusual because some of the music was laced with infrasound (extreme bass sound, below 20Hz in frequency). It took place in the Purcell Room, London, in 2003.

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