Sarah Angliss: Artist Talk

London-based composer, performer and robotics artist Sarah Angliss talks about her unique and varied creative career. From combining old and current technologies that tell haunting sound stories to designing eerie musical automata, her work across songs, opera and soundtracks is thought-provoking, witty and endlessly inventive.

The seminar is the fourth of 12 online events featuring musical artists and audio professionals running throughout 2021 as part of Level Up In Audio. This YSWN project aims to inspire, grow and sustain the skills and creative opportunities of women and people of minority genders who have an interest in music and technology and whose work and professional development have been curtailed by the coronavirus pandemic.

The seminar will take place via Zoom; attendees will receive a private link through the email used for booking in advance of the event. Tickets are free and space is limited.

Eventbrite link for booking: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sarah-angliss-artist-talk-tickets-145240049899

Sarah will speak for around 60 minutes, followed by 30 minutes open for audience questions and discussion.

As part of YSWN’s Level Up in Audio project this seminar series is intended for an audience of women and people of minority genders – we ask that you respect this when booking tickets and do not deny someone else a place if you are not among this group. We plan to record the seminar for sharing online with a wider audience at a later date.

YSWN's Level Up in Audio project is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

About Sarah Angliss

Sarah’s music explores the sonorities of voices and ancient instruments, revealing and augmenting them with her distinctive electronic techniques.

Sarah draws on her lifelong interest in European folksong, cybernetics and esoteric, pre-electric sound culture. These inspire her progressive and strikingly original music for film, theatre, installations, albums and the live music stage. Thematically, she’s particularly drawn to the meeting point of machines and mysticism and to contemporary expressions of ancient folklore in the city.

Sarah’s music reflects an eclectic musical background. A classically trained composer who specialised early on in baroque and renaissance music, Sarah cut her teeth performing on the UK folk scene. Her interest in electronic sound and automata led her to study electroacoustic engineering, then biologically inspired robotics.

She has performed live at festivals and venues around Europe including Supersonic, The Royal Festival Hall, Union Chapel, Supernormal, Star and Shadow, The Arnolfini and many others. She also composes for film and theatre. Her score for Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape featured at The Old Vic, London, and Park Avenue Armory, New York. She recently composed a score for voices, recorders, percussion and electronics for Romola Garai’s horror film Amulet which premiered at Sundance 2020.

Sarah is currently designing and building an outdoor automaton for Full of Noises Festival, Barrow, and reprogramming pre-electric music machines with her own music for EMI. She’s creating Songs Before and After, an album of new settings of the poems of Miroslav Holub. She’s also embarking on Buying the Wind, a new work for voices, string quartet and live electronics with poet Hannah Lowe. Her main focus is Giant, an electroacoustic opera about the life, death and contentious afterlife of Charles Byrne, due to be premiered at Aldeburgh Festival 2023 (with poet Ross Sutherland and director Sarah Fahie). In 2018, Sarah was a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Award for Composers.

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