GAYNOR PERRY
SARAH
ANGLISS
composer, performer and sound designer
“An utterly compelling soundworld…astonishingly beautiful…as music it’s miraculous”
“Sombre, haunting…Angliss’ electronics are subtle, subversive, sly”
“The music’s eerie metallic edge as transfixing as the moral ambiguities of the 18th-century story”
“Music possesssed of an eerie instability…a shimmering, minimalist masterpiece”
“Strange but compelling…spine-shiveringly ethereal”
“The otherworldly music adds an extra layer, questioning, uneasy, timeless, that elevates the issues involved to a higher level.”
“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 her own robotic art and finely wrought, bespoke electronic effects.
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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).
“Music possesssed of an eerie instability…a shimmering, minimalist masterpiece”
“Strange but compelling…spine-shiveringly ethereal”
“The power of Angliss’ work comes from its chilling atmospheric intimacy”
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Music from Sarah Angliss
Selected Works
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Giant
New opera – for Aldeburgh Festival 2023 and the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, 2024. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Biography of Oram for reprint of ‘An Individual Note’
A short biography of composer Daphne Oram, co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic workshop and inventor of the Oramics ‘drawn sound’ system. For a reprint of her treatise on sound, electronics and metaphysics.
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.
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.
Birdsong though bells – listening to the outcome of a machine-learning algorithm
Combining the robotic carillon with a machine learning algorithm from Dan Stowell to hear automatic transcriptions of the dawn chorus played by polyphonic bells. For International Dawn Chorus Day.