Looking Sideways Episode 8 — Sarah Angliss
Sarah Angliss is a composer and performer, writer and historian, roboticist and maker of musical instruments and automata. I caught up with her in the basement of Bom-Banes café in Brighton’s Kemp Town to find out what lies behind her eerie performances and historically-influenced music. We talked about the discomfort of new technology, and nostalgia for old; performance, magic and jeopardy; and the value of physical things in a world being eaten by software.
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Sarah performing at Hugo onstage at the 2011 Brighton Mini Maker Faire after-party, with Hugo. Photo by Rain Rabbit
Links for this episode
- Jane Bom-Banes café in Brighton
- Sarah talking about machine music and clog dancing at TEDx Brighton
- Hugo onstage at the 2011 Brighton Mini Maker Faire after-party
- Dead of Night (1945) on IMDB
- Florence Nightingale voice recording
- Google Glass: What You’re Not Supposed To Do
- Radio 4’s Digital Human – Value
- Marc Andreessen: Why Software Is Eating The World — and the hardware startup renaissance.
- Thor Magnusson live coding
- Sarah with Spacedog at the BFI: Music for Silent Gothic Treasures
- Sarah on Soundcloud
- Sarah’s last album with Spacedog and Belbury Poly: Message and Method
- Down to the Silver Sea compilation featuring Jon Brooks, Pye Corner Audio, Moon Wiring Club, Time Attendant and Sarah Angliss on Boomkat
- Nerdy Day Trips
- Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker in Essex
- Stewart Lee & Friends: celebrating the music of Nick Pynn – featuring Jane Bom-Bane, at the Brighton Dome, 23 March 2014