FOR AT LEAST TWO PLAYERS // Unit 44, Dublin // Fri 24 May

For At Least Two Players at Hundred Years Gallery, London, support from Andy Ingamells & Jackie Fletcher

Friday 24th May. Doors 7pm. €5/€10/NOTAFLOF

For At Least Two Players is a programme about pieces. It’s about pieces that are, themselves, about other pieces—pieces that describe each other, re-describe each other, and are in some way “the same”. James M. Creed has been working on putting that down on paper for some time now; flxnflx (Maya-Leigh Rosenwasser and James McIlwrath) have been playing with similar ideas for some time now, too. Together, they’re working through a bunch of James M. Creed’s bits of paper by playing them, putting pieces next to each other and on top of each other, and seeing what happens.

flxnflx (pronounced flux in flux) is an experimental music duo made up of composer/performers Maya-Leigh Rosenwasser and James McIlwrath. Their work is predominantly improvised and explores queering processes, describing things and generating material to respond to through improvisation. since forming in 2020 they’ve welcomed collaborations with composers, ensembles and arts organisations and have worked with Kirkos Ensemble, Ben Nobuto, Lucy Havelock (2023) and the Arc Project (2021–2023), and have presented work/research at Convergence music and technology Conference 2022, and Parallax Symposium 2021 and was in residence with Kirkos Ensemble in 2022.

James M. Creed is a composer and guitarist based in Leeds. His recent music is concerned with simple materials, even simpler processes, unfixed structures, clowning, and experimental notations; more generally his music also tends to be quiet and slow, without the need for much rehearsal or training. James’s music has been featured at Co-Incidence Festival (USA, 2021, 2022, 2023), Klangraum (Germany, 2022), released by Sawyer Editions (USA), NCTMMRN (Australia) and NX Records (UK), and he was an invited artist-in-residence for the state of Lower Austria throughout October 2022. His interpretation for solo guitar of Julius Eastman’s open score Buddha has been featured on BBC Radio 3 (2021). He is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD at the University of Leeds, and is an associate lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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