A Man Called Adam
A Man Called Adam's Drs Sally Rodgers and Steve Jones have been making pioneering electronic music for over three decades. Exploring and assimilating diverse musical influences, the Guardian recently described them as "chillout masters famed for their blissful, sun-dappled sound."
As multi-disciplinary artists they continue to push the boundaries of their practice with commissions, residencies and workshops that expand upon their doctoral research in the fields of sound, technology and lyric form.
For Middlesbrough Art Week 2025 they will premiere a new audio/visual work, “The Power of 3” at Middlesbrough Town Hall on the opening night of the festival.
Inspired by Redcar's offshore windfarm, the work celebrates the turbines’ sculptural beauty and benign presence as a bridge between Teesside’s industrial past and its sustainable futures. Featuring an ensemble of live musicians and a large-scale triptych of lyrical HD video, the symphonic composition will transpose the wind farm's inherent patterns into musical rhythms and motifs in three distinct movements that weave community narratives, serialist composition and pulsing electronic beats.
Rodgers says “We love the wind turbines, we see them in all weathers, times of day and different light. There’s a kind of revelation in that repetition, the same but different, endlessly. Life ticks along beside them and when you experience life, love, loss – all the human emotions – alongside a great landmark, that landmark becomes part of your identity, part of the spirit of a place. We wanted to celebrate that and maybe try to evoke that sensation for the viewers and listeners.”
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