Wednesday 30th September 2026, 8pm
The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead
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Each month, The Glasshouse is teaming up with BBC Introducing to bring you fresh line-ups of artists making waves in the North East's music scene and beyond. This month's line-up features New Ways of Moving in the Counterworlds, Juliana Day and Manon McCoy, and Helen Anahita Wilson. 

This is a first time collaboration for Newcasle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music and The Glasshouse, bringing together a magnificent triple bill of artists who have all recorded albums for the festival's side hustle, 'New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings'. Supported by Jazz North East and GemArts. 


New Ways of Moving in the Counterworlds

New Ways of Moving in the Counterworlds is a multi-disciplinary artistic collaboration featuring the long-time skilful duo John Pope (bass) and John Garner (violin/shakuhachi), together with poet Nisha Ramayya. Together, they blend jazz, poetry, improvisation and spoken word, weaving 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 led 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 is a recorder and whistle player and composer based in Sheffield. 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 trained in both Western and South Asian classical music, and as a result, her music moves between experimental composition, improvisation, and sound art - often drawing on living systems and the rhythms of the body. 

Wilson has played festivals and venues including Manchester Jazz Festival and the Southbank Centre. She's been commissioned by the likes of the United Nations, and 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 focuses on how sound and listening shape our understanding of the human body. 

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