composer, songwriter and sound artist
Biography
Sara Wolff is a composer, songwriter and sound artist based in Liverpool, UK.
Her practice explores listening and noisemaking as ways of connecting people to place, memory and one another, moving between introspective and collective experience. This takes the form of composition, songwriting, storytelling, community practice and skill-sharing, performance, and visual experimentation.
Sara’s approach to composition often draws on folk music instrumentation and harmony, combining the unmistakable human tone of voice and breath with experimental electronics. Her songwriting blends indie-folk and art-pop with unexpected genres like drone and metal to create evocative, emotionally resonant songs. She is drawn to the pace and tactility of analogue tech such as tape, film and synths, and how their limitations create space for the magic of imperfection and the potential for failure, allowing experimentation and play.
Since moving from Norway to Liverpool, Sara has steadily built a reputation through releases of singles and EPs (including When You Left the Room and Magic Hour), known for thoughtful, finely crafted songwriting. She has toured the UK with her band – and a trusty four-track cassette machine – sharing stages with artists including This Is The Kit, Helado Negro, Peter Broderick and Fenne Lily.
She has so far released two singles on Scottish label Lost Map Records, both recorded with Mercury Prize-winning musician and producer Mike Lindsay, best known for acclaimed bands Tunng and LUMP (with Laura Marling).
Photos by Mol Norris
Her sound recording experience has led her from collecting sounds to creating bespoke soundscapes for films, sound libraries, and compositions. Sara has composed music for projects such as Theresa Skamletz’ dance choreography A Wet Bit Of Sand; remixed a Costa Rican dawn chorus for Cities And Memory’s ‘Adventure’ project; scored Olive Pascha’s short film Carrot Cake starring Niamh Cusack, created in partnership with the British Trust for Ornithology and EMU films, and scored and narrated short film The Gan-Finn by Louis Zillio.
In 2025, she started her own soundwalk collective, Sound Pals, a monthly guided listening walk exploring and connecting with the city of Liverpool through present, curious listening. She has also led these soundwalks for New Mills Festival, Liverpool Indy Biennial and The Royal Standard; sharing skills in listening and field recording with local artists both as a mentor and workshop facilitator.
Through collaborations with other artists, she has worked on immersive sound installations and soundscape compositions for exhibitions, and in September 2025, produced a geo-located audio trail using the Echoes App, commissioned by Metal Culture, uniting the stories of people in the neighbourhood with found sounds and original music.
Across all of her work, she creates spaces for attention, connection and shared experience through sound.
“Audacious and assured songwriting”
“It’s very cool, it’s wonderful”
“An intriguing prospect”
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![Group of people walking along a sandy and grassy coastal trail near residential houses.]()
soundwalking
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![A person holding a black and teal microphone shaped object, with a box of supplies, colorful filament spools, and wires on a work surface.]()
building
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![A woman is giving a presentation in a room with a light teal wall. She is sitting at a desk with a laptop and recording equipment, including microphones and a camera on a tripod. A slide titled 'Recording as a way of listening' is projected behind her, containing bullet points and an image of a person walking in a park.]()
facilitation
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![Female singer performing on stage with guitar, illuminated by blue stage lights, with a partially visible band member on her left, and a banner reading 'Youth Brigade' in the background.]()
performance
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![Person crouching in a park using headphones and a camera on a tripod, surrounded by trees and fallen leaves.]()
listening
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![Screenshots of a video editing app showing various landscape and coastal scenes at sunset and sunrise over different time durations.]()
visual storytelling
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![Person sitting on the grass, writing in a notebook during daytime.]()
writing
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![A cluttered desk with electronic equipment, a monitor, keyboard, microphone, and a plate of partially eaten cookies; a cat sitting on a carpeted floor near the desk.]()
composition
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![Group of people standing in a field with yellow and white flowers, some taking notes, under a cloudy sky.]()
place-based work
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![Person sleeping on a beige sofa with closed eyes, wearing headphones, a hat, and a scarf, in a room with purple and pink lighting.]()
immersive audio
contact
Get in touch for commissions, collaborations or gig enquiries: sarawolffmusic ( at ) gmail.com