BBC Introducing From The Glasshouse: Curated by Jazz North East
New Ways of Moving in the Counterworlds, Juliana Day and Manon McCoy and Helen Anahita Wilson
Surprise. Experimentation. Curious minds will be rewarded.
Pay what you decide to find your future favourite artists at our From The Glasshouse gigs. When you come to one, you’re not just supporting the region’s most exciting new and independent acts. The chances are you’re seeing them right before their breakthrough.
Each month we’re teaming up with BBC Introducing to bring you fresh line-ups of artists making waves in the North East’s music scene and beyond, meaning you can expect to see the best independent musicians from all genres right here.
Look out for From The Glasshouse acts gaining some serious momentum down the line with content shared across the BBC Music Network.
Who will you discover before everyone else?
This month’s lineup features: New Ways of Moving in the Counterworlds, Juliana Day and Manon McCoy and Helen Anahita Wilson
Need to know
Venue: Sage Two (Club Layout)
Price: Pay what you decide.
Stage Times: Announced closer to show time.
Age: Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult.
Who's playing
New Ways of Moving in the Counterworlds
New Ways of Moving in the Counterworlds is a multi-disciplinary artistic collaboration. They blend jazz, poetry, improvisation and spoken word.
It features long-time skilful duo John Pope (bass) and John Garner (violin/shakuhachi) and poet Nisha Ramayya. Together they weave profound and moving stories with string, breath and space.
They’re three curious creators exploring how people can co-exist while questioning common narratives. These explorations are all lead by joy, generosity and kinship.
Juliana Day and Manon McCoy
Manon McCoy is an experimental harpist, improviser and composer based in the North of England. Alongside projects including balo, and her duo with vocalist Alice Brookes, she keeps exploring the boundaries of the pedal and lever harp.
Juliana Day is a recorder player, whistle player, and composer based in Sheffield, UK. Her work spans performance, composition, and creative collaboration.
Together, McCoy and Day create music that is industrial, dark, beautiful and dreamlike. They move between fragile intimacy and dense, shifting intensity. Their collaborative work weaves harp, wind instruments, voice and electronics into fluid, responsive forms. Both are core members of Sheffield’s Emergence Collective, which Day co-founded and co-directs.
Helen Anahita Wilson
Helen Anahita Wilson is an award-winning composer, pianist, and sound artist. she’s played festivals and venues including Manchester Jazz Festival and the Southbank Centre.
Wilson’s trained in both Western and South Asian classical music. As a result, her music moves between experimental composition, improvisation, and sound art. It often draws on living systems and the rhythms of the body.
Wilson’s been commissioned by organisations like The United nations plus her work has been featured by Sky Arts, New Scientist, CNN, and more. Publications including The Sunday Times and The Wire have championed her work too.
She is a winner of the Oram Award for innovation in sound, music, and related technologies. Wilson is currently a Wellcome Trust Fellow at King’s College London. Her research focusses on how sound and listening shape our understanding of the human body.
Curated by Jazz North East
A first time collaboration for Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music alongside Glasshouse International Centre for Music. Bringing together a magnificent triple bill of artists who have all recorded albums for the festival side hustle New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings. This concert comes with promotional support from Jazz North East and South Asian arts organisation GemArts.
