Sage Gateshead

Sarah is an active performer and co-writer in several projects, namely Beyond Albedo, an improvisatory EDM quartet from outer space, Le Shig, an alternative function band, and Rhiannon Scutt, a well-established Ani DiFrancoesque singer-songwriter from Sheffield. Sarah is also pursuing a solo project, ‘Power Out’, which brings together drum machines, bassline sequencers, and live drums to create a continuous set of beats; some dancey, others immersive. Let yourself be lit up in a space of grooves and loops.

Geoff Kirkwood is best known as the international DJ and electronic music producer “Man Power”. As one of our artists in residence Geoff will be working as Bed Wetter, the guise for his more experimental musical output.

We will be assisting Geoff over the next 10 months in creating a piece of experimental music for performance which fuses electronic music, a live orchestra, archive material, field recordings and film, and which attempts to examine and celebrate working class people from the North East of England alongside concepts of internationalism and unity.

Geoff will showcasing some of the early filmed components he will be using in the piece as well as performing a brief ambient improvisation which he intends to record and use in the final finished presentation next year.