SARAH ANGLISS
composer | musician | electronic artist
Curriculum Vitae
Work
Composer
Composing for film, theatre and live music stage. Work seamlessly blends live electronics and extemporisation with classically notated score.
LIVE MUSICIAN
Performing own compositions live at festivals and venues - and as part of theatre works. Working solo and with musical collaborators.
SOUND DESIGNER
Sound design for theatre, galleries, radio shows, podcasts and historic sites.
RESEARCHER
Researching the history of sound culture through archives, reconstruction, performance and more. Presenting research in radio documentaries, book chapters, magazines aricles and salon talks.
Research into the haunting psychological effects of infrasound in music.
INSTRUMENTAL SKILLS INCLUDE
Recorders - including 20th and 21st century augmented techniques. All sizes, including contrabass
Theremin - classical playing and bespoke augmented techniques
Keyboard - piano, clavisimbalum. Currently learning portative organ
Musical saw - as recently featured in a Chaplin documentary soundscape
Other woodwind - including tin whistle, crumhorn, rackett and other renaissance instruments
Violin and voice (second studies - used sparingly!)
TECH SKILLS INCLUDE
Sound editing in Logic, Protools, Ableton live
Programming in Max MSP - advanced techniques, including development of bespoke externals
Score notation in Dorico and Sibelius
QLAb programming for theatre
Acoustics - calculations, predictions etc.
Robotics - including the design and build of robotic musical instruments.
Programming of generative and evolutionary sound systems, including use of machine-learning algorithms
Programming, design and building with Arduino, RPi and other physical computing platforms
Electronics, soldering and basic circuit design
Object-oriented programming in C, Javascript, Python and related codes
3D printing - with access to machines in a shared workshop
RECENT AWARDS AND GRANTS INCLUDE
Ivor Novello Award 2021
Category: Visionary Award
Composer's Award
from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation 2018
Opera Writing Fellowship for development of Giant,
Britten-Pears Artsand the Jerwood Charitable Foundation 2017
PRS for Music Foundation Composer's Award
for creation of Buying the Wind 2019
Projects
FILM INCLUDES
Amulet - film score for UK horror feature, written and directed by Romola Garai. Premiered at Sundance 2020.
The Fall of The House of Usher - live score for Watson and Webber's classic horror from 1928, at NFT1 of the BFI
OPERA INCLUDES
Giant - (in production) - due to open at Aldeburgh Festival 2023. Librettist Ross Sutherland; director and dramaturg Sarah Fahie.
THEATRE INCLUDES
The Hairy Ape (dir. Richard Jones) - at The Old Vic, London, and Park Avenue Armory, New York
The Twilight Zone (dir. Richard Jones) - at Almeida, and West End, London
Once in a Lifetime (dir. Richard Jones) - at The Young Vic
The Effect (dir. Rupert Goold) - at The National Theatre
Horlicks and Armageddon - Brighton International Festival award winner (own work - directed by Emma Kilbey)
RADIO DOCUMENTARY INCLUDES
The Bird Fancyer's Delight - on the strange 18th century practice of teaching songbirds to 'record' human tunes
Echo in a Bottle - on our enduring and sometimes deathly cultural fascination with the echo, BBC Radio 4
Hildegard of Bingen - a podcast for Camden Arts Centre early in Covid lockdown
Writing includes
A short biography of inventor and BBC Radiophonic Co-Founder Daphne Oram, as the forward a reprint of Oram's treatise 'An Individual Note'.
Comparing musicians' early atittudes to film sound, drum machines and samplers. A chapter for Material Culture and Electronic Sound, for the Science Museum and Smithsonian Scholarly Press.
An essay on ventriloquism, performance and the recording age for The Wire Magazine.
Reflections on The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the famous Doomsday Clock, for The Wire Magazine.
A short biography of Muriel Howorth, founder of the amateur UK Atomic Gardening Society. For The Odditorium (ed. Bramwell and Keeling, Hodder and Stoughton).
Wall text for The Making the Modern World exhibition at The Science Museum
An informal account of The Fog Horn Requiem, published on this website.
FESTIVALS AND VENUES INCLUDE
Almeida Theatre, London
Ambassadors Theatre, London
Arnolfini, Bristol
Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia
BBC Halls Swansea
BFI Southbank, London
Bom-Bane’s, Brighton
Bring to Light, Birmingham
The British Library, London
Cafe Oto, London
Cambridge Junction
Camden Arts Centre, London
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
Compton Verney
The Cube, Bristol
Duke of Yorks Picturehouse, Brighton
Elektriteater, Tartu
Fort Process, Newhaven
Glad Cafe, Glasgow
Golden Lion, Todmorden
Handel House Museum, London
HMS Alliance (submarine museum), Gosport
Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Colebrookdale
Kings Place, London
Latitude Festival, Beccles
LSO St Luke’s, London
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
The National Theatre, London
National Sawdust, Brooklyn
Minerva Works, Birmingham
Museum of London
The Old Vic, London
Off the Page (The Wire and Nymusik)
Park Avenue Armory, New York
Purcell Room, London
Radiophrenia, Glasgow
Raven Row, London
Royal Festival Hall, London
The Royal Institution, London
Science Museum, London
Site Gallery, Sheffield
Sonic Imperfections, London
Spike Island, Bristol
Spirit of Gravity, Brighton
Star and Shadow, Newcastle
Supersonic Festival, Birmingham
Supernormal Festival, Braziers Park
Union Chapel, London
Unsound, Kraków
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
The Young Vic, London
