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Composers' biographies

 

Lead composer:

Sarah Angliss
A composer and multi-instrumentalist specialising in electronic composition,
Sarah Gwyneth Angliss is known for her live performances featuring theremin and the musical automata she’s built to accompany her live on stage. Sarah's music reflects her lifelong obsessions with defunct technology and the darkest European folklore. In autumn 2012 Sarah was commissioned by the National Theatre to write the score for 'The Effect' a new play by Lucy Prebble. Sarah's  music has also been heard in the Purcell Room, Flatpack,  The Horse Hospital, BEAM, Supersonix, Transfer, The Green Man Festival, the De La Warr Pavilion, Interesting, Kinetica, BAFTA, the Sonic Arts Expo, Lovebytes and the Port Eliot Festival as well as dozens of other electronics festivals, cabaret nights, hacker events and the reverberation chambers of the National Physical Laboratory (Reverb Jam, 2006). Funded by the Sciart Consortium, her collaborative project Soundless Music (May 2003) incorporated a live experiment in the Purcell Room, London, in which the music was laced with infrasound. With performer Caroline Radcliffe she created a sound and dance piece which mixed Lancashire clog steps with machine sounds from a working 19th-century cotton mill, inviting the audience to reappraise clog dancing as a steam powered precursor to techno. This received a Quake Dance Award 2007. In 2009, she created a new, visceral special effect with Punchdrunk Theatre Company and deployed it in Adam Curtis’ It Felt Like a Kiss (Manchester International Festival). Her BBC Radio 4 documentary on the use of birds as primordial, feathered sound recorders (The Bird Fancyer’s Delight, June 2011) led to an ongoing collaboration with electronic artist Moon Wiring Club - Sarah is sampled on Moon Wiring Club's latest album Today Bred Tomorrow Secrets.   She’s recently completed a Study Series recording for Ghost Box records (due for release late summer 2013). In May 2013 she was awarded Most Groundbreaking Show of Brighton Festival and Fringe 2013.

 

 

Ian Hodgson aka Moon Wiring Club
Ian Hodgson is a fine artist who has made his name creating his distinctive 'confusing English electronic music'. This is characterised by heavily fragmented vocal samples and eerie synthetic and found sounds, influenced by English pastoralism, the Elizabethan court, music hall and early British television horror. Ian has published eight albums under the Moon Wiring Club monicker, all of which have been very well reviewed. His most recent album, Today Bread Tomorrow Secrets, included processed samples of Sarah Angliss' recorder extemporisations.

 

Jon Brooks aka Advisory Circle

Jon Brooks is a composer, producer and engineer who records under monickers Advisory Circle, DD Denham and King of Woolworths. His journey in music  began at pre-school age, thanks to his jazz session-musician father who used to jam with fellow jazzers and record sessions at home.  Brooks was proficient on a half-size drum kit his dad bought before he even went to infant school. Soon the child prodigy was grappling with guitar, glockenspiel, and keyboards, and messing with tape recorders. He's been doing the same ever since, producing a dozen albums of exquisite, British electronic music which makes the most of analogue and acoustic instruments and digital tech. Jon's work is heavily influenced by English folklore, library music, public information films and the tape techniques of the Radiophonic workshop.

 Interview with Simon Reynolds - Ian Hodgson and Jon Brooks

 

 

Paul Snowdon aka Time Attendant

Paul is a musician and fine artist whose compositions are extemporisations using analogue pedals and swirling, evolving prepared musical loops. Paul is signed to Exotic Pylon records.