Uptake (2020)

Anna created a piece for alto saxophone, bass guitar and piano in collaboration with scientists Rachel Bearon and Joseph Leedale at the University of Liverpool as part of PRiSM 8 Cubed. You can view all of the online premieres by the Riot Ensemble here.

Figure 3. Multiscale modelling of drug transport and metabolism in liver spheroids (Leedale et al., 2020)
Composer Anna Appleby and Professor Rachel Bearon share progress on their collaboration at a PRiSM 8³ workshop 3 March 2020

Saxagon (2016)

Collaboration with Miranda Rimmer (saxophonist/composer) and Katrina Wilde (artist) at the Brighter Sound Wonder Materials Residency at the Science and Industry Museum, Manchester in 2016. Mentorship was provided by Anna Meredith and Eleanor Meredith. This piece was inspired by the hexagonal structure of graphene and by its elasticity.

Anna Appleby and Miranda Rimmer. Photos by Rachel Bywater courtesy of Brighter Sound 2016
Print | Sitemap
Website © Anna Appleby 2023. Images © Merchant Sinfonia and Alex Gascoine by Ian Watson, choreographer Carolyn Bolton by Roberto Cinconze, Citizens of Nowhere (with choreographer Dane Hurst and dancers Liam Giacuzzo, Alice Laidler, Eleanor Stevenson and Zunnur Sazali) by Pari Naderi and Claire Shovelton, Anna Appleby by Mike Plunkett, Lore Lixenberg and Gweneth Ann Rand by Claire Shovelton and designer Sarah Booth, The Sunday Boys by Guðbjörg Ágústsdóttir, conductor Tom Goff by Anna Appleby, Citizens of Nowhere (with Ann Wilkes, Emma Wheeler and Helen Lacey) by Claire Shovelton.