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Paranormal Or What?Ep: 97: Paranormal celebrity: Interview with Dr Ciaran O'KeeffeDr Ciarán O'Keeffe (born 21 March 1971) is an English psychologist specialising in parapsychology and forensic psychology. He is currently employed at Bucks New University. He has previously held a research associate position at the University of Toulouse and also an online tutor position at Derby University. Previously employed at Liverpool Hope University, lecturing in psychology with a parapsychology component, O'Keeffe is a member of the Society for Psychical Research and an advisor to The Ghost Club. According to his own website, he completed his PhD at the University of Hertfordshire under the supervision of Richard Wiseman and Julia Buckroyd.TV Shows...
2025-06-261h 10
Girls Twiddling KnobsEp#106: Documenting Time Loops with Shiva Feshareki & Sarah Angliss {S06 Finale Special}Send us a text🎧 Listen on headphones 🎧 Some of this episode is recording in binaural audio.What does it really take to compose a work for a 12-piece post-minimalist ensemble—using vintage synths, robotic bells, and tape echoes?In this immersive episode of Girls Twiddling Knobs, we go behind the scenes of Time Loops, a bold and experimental project for Science Museum Group. Follow Isobel as she documents Shiva Feshareki and Sarah Angliss' compositional journey writing new commissions for Icebreaker Ensemble and vintage instrumen...
2025-04-091h 03
FolkLandsLimehouse NightsToday we unearth a hidden corner of London as we creep around the frozen docks and inky darkness of Limehouse.In the 16th to the 18th century the area of Limehouse became synonymous as a melting pot of folklore and people as the docks brought stories, superstitions and strange new cultures. It had its own Golem wandering the abandoned warehouses and dockyards, it had the sensational tales of Thomas Burke who wrote of opium dens and backstreet murders even Blur's Damon Albarn invoked the spirit of Dr John Dee in its ancient streets....
2024-11-261h 49
ModusModus. Britė ir airėSarah Angliss – britų kompozitorė, atlikėja ir garso dizainerė, muzikos atlikimo robotų gamintoja, grojanti tereminu, fleitomis, klavišiniais ir pačios sukurtu robotiniu kariljonu. Ją domina efemeriški reiškiniai – šešėliai, dulkės, vos pastebimos užuominos, itin žemo dažnio garsai, kurių žmogus negirdi, bet junta nerimą. Angliss muzikoje daug balsų, tekstų, sapniškumo, senų ir naujausių instrumentų kombinacijų.Jennifer Walshe (g. 1974) – garsi airių kompozitorė, vokalistė ir menininkė, dažniausiai atliekanti savo kūrinių solines, specifiškai virtuozines ir teatrališkas partijas. Ji bendradarbiauja su įvairių krypčių muzikantais, todėl kompozicijose gan ryškus kolektyviškumo ir improvizacijos pradas. Muzikoje daug keistumo...
2024-03-1659 min
The Last Human Voice PodcastThe Artist's DilemmaGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. For Artists, AI offers an exciting toolkit - particularly tools for performance synthesis. But alongside the creative opportunities looms a potential threat to their creative futures. Annette, Mathilde and Marcus talk with composer, musician and technologist, Sarah Angliss, about her integration of technology and music and her experiences of working with AI. Sarah considers some of the ethical dilemmas presented by AI and also tells us why we've been here before. Surprisingly, the answer involves clog dancing...
2023-09-2750 min
The world, the universe and us#198 Giant: An opera about the legacy of the ‘Irish giant’ Charles Byrne and the surgeon John HunterWelcome to CultureLab, from New Scientist podcasts. In this episode, culture and comment editor Alison Flood speaks with composer Sarah Angliss. Sarah has written a new opera called Giant, which is based on the true story of the 18th-century “Irish giant” Charles Byrne, who had an undiagnosed benign tumour of his pituitary gland which caused him to grow to be 2.31m tall. Byrne’s corpse was stolen and later put on public display by the surgeon John Hunter, despite his explicit wishes to be buried at sea. Giant premieres in June at the Aldeburgh Festival, 240 years si...
2023-06-0923 min
Front RowAuthor Maggie O’Farrell, New opera Giant, The consumerism in creativityCharles Byrne was an 18th-century “Irish giant” whose skeleton was stolen and put on display against his wishes. 240 years after his death, he is being remembered in a new electro acoustic opera rather than as a museum-piece curiosity. Dawn Kemp of the Hunterian Museum discusses removing the famous skeleton from their collection, and composer, musician, and robotic artist Sarah Angliss tells us about her new opera, Giant, which celebrates Byrne on stage, and is opening the Aldeburgh Festival.The Irish writer Maggie O’Farrell’s last novel “Hamnet” is now playing on stage at the Globe Theatre and won the...
2023-06-0542 min
Music MattersBrad Mehldau, François-Xavier RothWith his new memoir ‘Formation - Building a Personal Canon, Part I’ hitting bookshops, and a new collaborative album with the tenor Ian Bostridge released this week, the American Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau joins Kate Molleson to discuss his childhood in small town New England, his forays into the New York Jazz scene of the 1990s, his encounters with kind musical heroes and future collaborators, and what it means to be a musician.Telling the story the 18th-century “Irish giant” Charles Byrne, whose corpse was stolen to order and put on public display, Kate speaks to composer Sarah An...
2023-06-0344 min
The VerbMonsters and the MonstrousIan McMillan explores the monsters that haunt our imagination, the monstrous labels that have historically been imposed upon 'the Other', and the modern day monstrosities that provoke our fears and threaten to make monsters of us all. With Prof Roger Luckhurst who specialises in classic 19th-century Gothic, literature, film, and cultural history; his new book 'Gothic' traces our fascination and representations of the Gothic through history to its place at the very heart of popular culture today, Poet Tom Juniper whose Monstrous poems are a collection from the point of view of sundry folkloric creatures, conceptual poet...
2023-05-1944 min
Electronic MusicSarah Angliss - My Electroacoustic WorldDescribing herself as a composer, musician and robotic artist, Ivor Novello award winning artist Sarah Angliss talks to Caro C about her route into Electronic Music and how she utilises sub-frequencies, robotics and her own effects in her compositions and live performances.Chapters00:00 - Introduction01:30 - Classical And Folk Beginnings00:00 - Discovering Electronic Music07:52 - Studying Infrasound12:26 - The Brown Note14:40 - Augmenting Acoustic Sounds17:46 - Using The Theremin As A Controller19:28 - The Bela Board20:48 - Using Robotics In Performances 26:20 - The Science Museum and Daphne...
2022-02-2238 min
Sound of CinemaMotherhoodMatthew Sweet focuses on the theme of motherhood with a selection of music for the screen that's inspried by the release of Pedro Aldomovar's latest film 'Parallel Mothers' featuring an acclaimed score by his regular collaborator, Alberto Iglesias.The programme includes music from 'Mommie Dearest', 'La Ciociara' ('Two Women') and from several more recent films including 'Power Of The Dog', 'Lady Bird', 'Philomena', 'Arrival', 'Tully', 'The Lost Daughter', 'Goodnight Mommy' - all of which explore contrasting thoughts and ideas about motherhood. The Classic Score of the Week is Krzsztof Komeda's music for 'Rosemary's Baby'.And...
2022-01-2920 min
The Finzi TrustSarah GabrielSarah spills the beans on her scholarship interview and picks up a thread that has run throughout her diverse career: story-telling.
Featuring 'Wan', composed by Sarah Angliss from the album Air Loom.
2020-12-0707 min
The Synth & Electronic Music ShowThe Synth & Electronic Music Show episode 3The Black Noise Interlude
Adrian Younge, Linear Labs
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And The Cuckoo Comes
The Avisory Circle
3
Bell Labs Alles (Alice) synthesiser 1977
Laurie Spiegel
4
Glissandi
György Sándor Ligeti
5
Popcorn
Sarah Angliss
6
Endless Horizon (I love Bob Mix)
Electric Skychurch
7
Lovely Head
Goldfrapp
8
Peter Coyte Automatic Writing Circle
9
Neurons
AnalogueMechanic
10
Ace Of Hz
Ladytron
11
Rios
Murcof
12
Bifurcation Arrows
Paddy Steer
13
Fantastic Man
William Onyeabor
2020-10-0156 min
Camden Art AudioThe Botanical Mind: Hildegarde Von Bingen - The Threads Of The Air Musician Sarah Angliss (London, UK) draws on the botanical writing of Hildegard von Bingen, a twelfth-century Christian mystic, to help make sense of her own experiences of illness, healing and the turn of the season while the city is in lockdown. Sarah immerses us in a sonic fever dream, using fragments of Hildegard's texts on herbal medicine to explore her personal experiences of fever as she examines Hildegard's ecstatic visions.
2020-06-1817 min
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the ClassicsEurydiceNatalie Haynes tells stories of Eurydice, whose rescue from the Underworld was bungled by her lover Orpheus. How has her story been uncovered from sources that no longer exist? Eurydice is chased by a sex-pest at her wedding, trips on a snake and is killed by its venom. Orpheus charms Persephone with his music into allowing him to attempt a rescue from Hades, but on the journey back he must promise not to look behind him, to check Eurydice is following. Just as they are about to step into the light, he looks back, and his gaze is what...
2020-05-3127 min
The Person First PodcastThe Person First with Sarah AnglissSarah Angliss is a British composer, multi-instrumentalist and sound historian whose music combines ancient instruments with theremin, electronics and her own robotic inventions. She performs her music live and also composes for theatre. In November 2018 she received an artists award from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
During this podcast Sarah chats to Ben about growing up and the impact her grandmother had on her. The consequences that having septicaemia at 13 had on her life.
She talks openly about her approach to work, success and happiness, not tying your identity into the thing you. The importance of keep...
2019-11-2859 min
Optic Echo PresentsOEP 6/11/19: Cruel Diagonals guest mixBig thanks to Cruel Diagonals for creating this week's OEP guest mix. Her most recent albums, including Pulse of Indignation, can be found on Bandcamp here:
https://crueldiagonals.bandcamp.com
Tsembla - Splash Erosion
Piotr Kurek - Polygome
Anne Gillis - A2 (from the album, Monetachek)
Moniek Darge - Solstice Sample
Edna King - Memo Me
Jay Glass Dubs - Neckless Dub
Yves de Mey - the Scheldt
Granite Mask - Hideout Dub
Lighght - Dark Rush
Sarah Angliss - Egg
Ulla Strauss - Net
2019-06-1358 min
Countercurrent: conversations with Professor Roger KneeboneSarah Angliss in conversation with Roger KneeboneSarah Angliss defies conventional definition. A multitalented creator of musical scores and an expert performer, she describes herself as a composer. With degrees in electroacoustics and robotics and a fascination with musical automata, Sarah's interests cut across orthodox categories.
2018-11-1254 min
Prospettive MusicaliProspettive Musicali di domenica 17/06/2018A cura di Gigi Longo. Brani di: Nicole Mitchell & Haki Madhubuti, Andrea Belfi, Gyda Valtysdottir, Lino Capra Vaccina, Annie Barbazza & Max Repetti, Sarah Angliss, Sarah Angliss, UMFANG, Zazou/Bikaye/CY1, Soccer93 e una selezione di artisti che hanno partecipato all'edizione 2017 di Terraforma.
2018-06-1755 minMusic MattersThomas Ades and Gerald Barry, Sgt Pepper at 50, Guto Puw and Welsh-language musicTom Service talks to the composer and conductor Thomas Adès and composer Gerald Barry about the 'explosive' music of Beethoven. Adès is embarking on a three-year concert project combining Gerald Barry's music with Beethoven's great works - and the two musicians chat with Tom about how the two composer's 'volcanic' music can shed light on each other.Tom celebrates the Beatles' seminal album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 50 years after its release. He looks at classical music's influence on the Beatles, and how, in turn, other music has been inspired. He talks to composer Ni...
2017-05-2743 min
Kings PlaceStrong Women, Strong Voices: Sarah Angliss - A Kings Place PodcastIn the second episode of Kings Place's exciting 'Strong Women, Strong Voices' series, composer and robotic artist Sarah Angliss talks about her much-anticipated debut album as well as the human and non-human performers who will join the launch gig.
Thu 20 Apr, 8.15pm
kingsplace.co.uk/SarahAngliss
2017-03-0712 min
The OdditoriumBird Fancier’s Delight with Sarah AnglissA composer, inventor and historian of sound and the uncanny – Sarah’s music reflects her lifelong obsession with defunct technology, faded variety acts and English folklore. In this talk she discusses the practices of training animals to mimic human behaviour, language and song.
2015-07-2330 minThe OdditoriumBird Fancier’s Delight with Sarah AnglissA composer, inventor and historian of sound and the uncanny – Sarah’s music reflects her lifelong obsession with defunct technology, faded variety acts and English folklore. In this talk she discusses the practices of training animals to mimic human behaviour, language and song.
2015-07-2330 min
The Digital HumanValueWhen almost anything we want is available to buy at the click of mouse and so much content is available for free, is the digital changing how we value things?Aleks Krotoski explores our sense of worth in this new world where the only thing that's scarce is scarcity itself. Do we connect with our possessions differently and in the end what is it that makes something valuable to us.ContributorsNicholas Lovell author of The Curve, Professor Chris Speed from Edinburgh University, Auctioneer and Valuer Anita Manning, Composer and Roboticist Sarah Angliss
2013-10-2828 min
Shift Run StopEpisode 65: Christmas SpecialHo ho ho! Were you good boys and girls this year? Hush your lips! Obviously you were, hence this wonderful present.
This year Lee Maguire joins us, and, like Magi of geek, the three of us bear anecdotes of obscure science fiction references and unexpected short-lived celebrity. The snacks don't disappoint, either. If you want to munch along at home for the 'full body experience', you will need: Haribo Jelicons, Walkers Sensations Szechuan Pepper peanuts, The Fantastic Fox's 'Magnificos' chilli & lime flavour, and Heston's spiced shortcrust mince pies from Waitrose. (If you get nothing else, get the...
2012-12-1300 minShift Run Stop (just the episodes)Episode 65: Christmas SpecialHo ho ho! Were you good boys and girls this year? Hush your lips! Obviously you were, hence this wonderful present.
This year Lee Maguire joins us, and, like Magi of geek, the three of us bear anecdotes of obscure science fiction references and unexpected short-lived celebrity. The snacks don't disappoint, either. If you want to munch along at home for the 'full body experience', you will need: Haribo Jelicons, Walkers Sensations Szechuan Pepper peanuts, The Fantastic Fox's 'Magnificos' chilli & lime flavour, and Heston's spiced shortcrust mince pies from Waitrose. (If you get nothing else, get the...
2012-12-1300 min
Project Moonbase – The Historic Sound of the Future | Unusual music show | Podcast | Space cult | projectmoonbase.comPMB100: Celebrating 100 Glorious Episodes of Project Moonbase Part One: By Our Friends (Barry Schleifer, Sarah Angliss, Barbara Moore, Monroeville Music Center, Pye Corner Audio, Giant Claw, AMS, concretism, bignonioides, The Soulless Party, The Phase 4, Harry Forbes)A very auspicious day, dear listeners as we reach our 100th podcast! And it wouldn’t have been possible without you [mops tear away]. To thank you for all your support over the last 100 years, sorry, shows, we’ve put together … Continue reading →
2012-10-1400 minProject Moonbase – The Historic Sound of the Future | Unusual music show | Podcast | Space cult | projectmoonbase.comPMB100: Celebrating 100 Glorious Episodes of Project Moonbase Part One: By Our Friends (Barry Schleifer, Sarah Angliss, Barbara Moore, Monroeville Music Center, Pye Corner Audio, Giant Claw, AMS, concretism, bignonioides, The Soulless Party, The Phase 4, Harry Forbes)A very auspicious day, dear listeners as we reach our 100th podcast! And it wouldn’t have been possible without you [mops tear away]. To thank you for all your support over the last 100 years, sorry, shows, we’ve put together … Continue reading →
2012-10-1400 minProject Moonbase – The Historic Sound of the Future | Unusual music show | Podcast | Space cult | projectmoonbase.comPMB038 The Detectives: John Gregory, Ray Martin, Sarah Angliss, Chaino, Ikebe Shakedown, Lalo Schifrin, Peter Falk, Alan Tew, Peter HerbolzheimerWe were saddened to hear of the recent passing of the man who played the greatest scruffy detective on TV, Peter Falk. We’re great fans of Mr Falk here at the Moonbase and so we thought we’d turn this week’s … Continue reading →
2011-07-031h 05Project Moonbase – The Historic Sound of the Future | Unusual music show | Podcast | Space cult | projectmoonbase.comPMB038 The Detectives: John Gregory, Ray Martin, Sarah Angliss, Chaino, Ikebe Shakedown, Lalo Schifrin, Peter Falk, Alan Tew, Peter HerbolzheimerWe were saddened to hear of the recent passing of the man who played the greatest scruffy detective on TV, Peter Falk. We’re great fans of Mr Falk here at the Moonbase and so we thought we’d turn this week’s … Continue reading →
2011-07-031h 05Project Moonbase – The Historic Sound of the Future | Unusual music show | Podcast | Space cult | projectmoonbase.comPMB024 Lunaphonic: Daphne Oram, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Geoff Love, Hot Butter, Modular, Clara Rockmore, Sarah Angliss, John Baker, David Cain, Sun Ra, Shawn Lee, Natural Yogurt Band, Dick MillsGreat news for radiophonic enthusiasts in the next week or so as next weekend (2-3 April 2011) the Cube Cinema in Bristol will be hosting A Radiophonic Weekend featuring former members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Then on Thursday 7 … Continue reading →
2011-03-271h 04Project Moonbase – The Historic Sound of the Future | Unusual music show | Podcast | Space cult | projectmoonbase.comPMB024 Lunaphonic: Daphne Oram, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Geoff Love, Hot Butter, Modular, Clara Rockmore, Sarah Angliss, John Baker, David Cain, Sun Ra, Shawn Lee, Natural Yogurt Band, Dick MillsGreat news for radiophonic enthusiasts in the next week or so as next weekend (2-3 April 2011) the Cube Cinema in Bristol will be hosting A Radiophonic Weekend featuring former members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Then on Thursday 7 … Continue reading →
2011-03-271h 04Shift Run Stop (just the episodes)Episode 24: Isy SuttieWriter-performer Isy Suttie drops in this week. Isy is a hit with geeks everywhere thanks to her role as Peep Show's winsome I.T. worker 'Dobby', but her talents reach far and wide. We discuss her performing career and her personal passions, which include The Office and The Wicker Man - and she plays the piano for us. You don't get that on This American Life.
Elsewhere this week, Dave Green joins us for more al fresco international snackery, bringing his expertise to bear on some Californian chocolate supplied by generous US-based listener Leo Vegoda. (If you...
2010-04-2900 minShift Run StopEpisode 24: Isy SuttieWriter-performer Isy Suttie drops in this week. Isy is a hit with geeks everywhere thanks to her role as Peep Show's winsome I.T. worker 'Dobby', but her talents reach far and wide. We discuss her performing career and her personal passions, which include The Office and The Wicker Man - and she plays the piano for us. You don't get that on This American Life.
Elsewhere this week, Dave Green joins us for more al fresco international snackery, bringing his expertise to bear on some Californian chocolate supplied by generous US-based listener Leo Vegoda. (If you...
2010-04-2900 min
Between the EarsThe Haunted MoustacheMusician David Bramwell delves into the world of Victorian psychic phenomena, modern witchcraft and mind altering states in the search for the story behind an inherited moustache. "In the early summer of 1991 I inherited a moustache from my Great Aunt Sylvia. She made it to the over-ripe age of 96 before sailing out of this world, fag in hand, leaving behind an unfinished jigsaw of the Eiffel Tower and a forlorn cat..."Obsessed with finding out the identity of the moustache's owner - an unlikely inheritance from his Great Aunt Sylvia - musician David Bramwell sets off on...
2010-03-2828 minShift Run Stop (just the episodes)Episode 9: Sarah Angliss and Paul B DavisThis week we were really honoured to talk to two fantastically clever artists who make use of technology in their work. Artist/performer Sarah Angliss has been researching the Uncanny Valley, and we hear about some of the eerie musical experiences she has created, for the Adam Curtis "It Felt Like A Kiss" piece and elsewhere. Sarah plays everything from the piano to the theramin and frequently makes use of automata and robots in her witty and evocative shows.
Paul B Davis is an artist and lecturer at Goldsmiths, well-known for his work with computer art/music...
2010-01-1400 minShift Run StopEpisode 9: Sarah Angliss and Paul B DavisThis week we were really honoured to talk to two fantastically clever artists who make use of technology in their work. Artist/performer Sarah Angliss has been researching the Uncanny Valley, and we hear about some of the eerie musical experiences she has created, for the Adam Curtis "It Felt Like A Kiss" piece and elsewhere. Sarah plays everything from the piano to the theramin and frequently makes use of automata and robots in her witty and evocative shows.
Paul B Davis is an artist and lecturer at Goldsmiths, well-known for his work with computer art/music...
2010-01-1400 min