JAMES M. CREED

I am a composer and guitarist based in Leeds, UK.

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Work:

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My recent music is concerned with simple materials, even simpler processes, unfixed structures, clowning, and experimental notations – these elements balance to varying degrees in any given piece but are usually all present. More generally my music also tends to be quiet and slow, without the need for much rehearsal or training.

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My scores are available free on this site, and all independently-released recordings are available pay-what-you-like via my Bandcamp. There's a donation link on my "scores" page and I have a patreon, too, but all of my work is without a paywall; donating doesn't access any "exclusive content" but supports me in continuing to make things and keep them freely available.

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Current composing, playing, and researching interests include: language; études; clowns; "the same"; bias; lines; arches.

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Bio:

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I am based in Leeds; I grew up in Berkshire (b. 1993) and hold both UK and USA citizenship. I came to composition and experimental music in my twenties after earlier years playing in bands and making music that was louder than mine tends to be now, though it's all in there somewhere. I later studied at Goldsmiths (BMus, 2020) and the University of Leeds (MMus, 2022, Head of School Excellence Scholarship, Lord Snowden Prize), with some further private study in composition (Amber Priestley, Laurence Crane, John Lely and Antoine Beuger) funded by the Bert Jansch Foundation. I am currently pursuing a practice-based PhD, again at the University of Leeds, supervised by Scott McLaughlin and Martin Iddon—these studies are funded by an internal doctoral scholarship. I am a PGR teaching assistant at the University of Leeds and an associate lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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My pronouns are he/him.

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For all enquiries please email me at james-m-creed(at)outlook(dot)com