JACK LANGDON

is a musician, filmmaker, and writer with concentrations in experimental music, minimalist documentary, cultural criticism, and political economy.

born in 1994, enrolled in sault ste. marie tribe of chippewa indians

nindaa gichi-neyaashiing

[archive and documentation of past performances can be found here]

UPCOMING EVENTS

10.1.25

Jack Langdon (bibigwan), Ryan Dohoney (voice), Mabel Kwan (keys), & Peter Maunu (strings)
Splice Series at The Beat Kitchen
Chicago, IL

10.12.25

Jack Langdon (bibigwan)
with Nat Baldwin and Akjai
The Whistler
Chicago, IL

TBD

Premiere of “Cheap Dream” for harpsichord by Justin Wallace
Britton Recital Hall, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

BIOGRAPHY, CV, CONTACT

PERFORMANCE ARCHIVE

August 2025

Jeff Kimmel (clarinet) & Jack Langdon (organ, bibigwan)
with Adam Shead & Stephan Haluska
Comfort Station Logan Square
Chicago, IL
8.7.25

Jack Langdon (bibigwan)
Marmalade Preserve
Chicago, IL
8.8.25

July 2025

ORGAN2/ASLSP by John Cage marathon performance
with Graeme Shields & Kory Heitzig
First Congregational Church
Kalamazoo, MI
7.15.25

June 2025
6.20.25
Flannau Duo performs “Happy Life”
Bridgeport Music Collective
Chicago, IL

6.20.25
Jack Langdon (bibigwan)
Prospect Series
Brooklyn, NY

6.21.25
Jack Langdon (bibigwan)
Cutelab
Brooklyn, NY

6.22.25
Webb Crawford (guitar), Michael Foster (soprano sax) & Jack Langdon (bibigwan)
Record Shop
Brooklyn, NY

6.23.25
premiere of “You Expect” for harp
by Urška Rihtaršič
Bled Festival Hall
Bled, Slovenia

6.24.25
premiere of “fish laying egg in a circle” for flute, harp, and viola
by Neža Zupanc (fl), Urška Rihtaršič (hp), & Jules Monnier (vla)
Bled Festival Hall
Bled, Slovenia

6.25.25
premiere of “Travels to the House of Invention” for string quartet
by Oskar Longyka, Anja Kralj, Domen Kužnar, and Urban Megušar
Bled Festival Hall
Bled, Slovenia

May 2025

Jeff Kimmel (clarinet, synthesizer), Erica Miller (cello, pedals), & Jack Langdon (bibigwan, organ pipe)
Improvised Music Series
Elastic Arts
Chicago, IL
5.1.25

Ishmael Ali (cello), Sarah Clausen (saxophone), & Jack Langdon (organ)
Improvised Music with Pipe Organ #2
Augustana Lutheran Church, Hyde Park
Chicago, IL
5.23.25

Jeff Kimmel (clarinets) & Jack Langdon (organ, bibigwan)
2x4 at Constellation
Chicago, IL
5.28.25

April 2025

Jack Langdon (organ) & The Mouth is the Beginning (voices)
Improvised Music with Pipe Organ #1
Resurrection Lutheran Church, Lakeview
Chicago, IL
4.11.25

Jack Langdon (organ)
Kaplan Institute for Public Humanities Symposium
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
4.18.25

February 2025

Jack Langdon & Jeff Kimmel
album release “The Other Side of the Air” on Dinzu Artefacts
Elastic Arts, Improvised Music Series
2.13.25

December 2024

Adam Shead Quartet
with Fred Jackson Jr. (saxophone), myself (organ)
Andrew Scott Young (electric bass), and Adam Shead (drums)
The Whistler, Chicago
12.1.24

premiere of The Harvest Manual, 2
for 17-tone, extended meantone organ
University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria
12.7.24

Hunter Brown (laptop), Peter Maunu (strings)
Carol Genetti (voice/synth), myself (organ)
Splice Series, Beat Kitchen, Chicago
12.11.24

November 2024

Jack Langdon/Jeff Kimmel Duo
opening for Matt Seargent and Dani Dobkin
Frequency Series, Constellation, Chicago
11.10.24

Jack Langdon/Olivia Shortt Duo
with Nolan Chin and Garden Parties
Elastro Series, Elastic Arts, Chicago
11.15.24

Solo Organ
with Wombat and Leitch/McDonald Duo
Comfort Station, Chicago
11.24.24

September 2024

Quartet with Fred Jackson Jr. (saxophone), myself (organ),
Andrew Scott Young (electric bass), and Adam Shead (drums)
Hungry Brain, Chicago
9.29.24

Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet) and myself (pipe organ)
Thetford Hill Church, VT
with Bill Cole and Bethany Younge
9.4.24

premiere of “Happy Life” by Flannau Duo
Constellation, Chicago
9.7.24

August 2024

Eli Namay’s Sound Mass VI/Culture as Care
at Elastic Arts
with Hearsay
8.1.24

premiere of “untitled (organ)”
composed by Andrew Maxbauer
at Tritriangle
8.7.24

duo with Ishmael Ali
at Marmalade
with Gerrit Hatcher and Jim Baker/Benny Vergara Duo
8.10.24

duo with Hunter Brown (laptop) and myself (piano/casiotone)
at Bloc_Sound in Bim Bom Studios
with Kieran Daly and Mabel Kwan/Chris Corsano
8.14.24

duo with Jason Belcher (detuned melodicas) and myself (tonewheel organ)
Improvised Music at Bantha Tea, Pittsburgh
with Namay/Tomchess/Tipp, Brian Riordan, Zach Rowden, and Leia Hohenfeld
8.18.24

bibigwan and miniature organ
The Red Room, Baltimore
with Rohan Pathare
8.21.24

bibigwan and miniature organ
Tiny Slices at Wee Tapes Series, NYC
with Chuck Roth and Sabrina Salamone
8.25.24

Anthony Vine (electric guitar) and myself (pipe organ)
St. Michael Church (99th/Amsterdam), NYC
with Steve Long Ensemble
8.26.24

July 2025

trio with Hunter Brown (laptop), Adam Shead (percussion), and myself (organ)
at Comfort Station Logan Square
with Laurenzi/Cunningham
7.25.24

quartet with Peter Maunu (strings), Hunter Brown (laptop), Eli Namay (bass), and myself (organ)
at Splice Series Beat Kitchen
7.31.24

June 2024

quartet with Erica Miller (cello/pedals), Jeff Kimmel (clarinet/synth),
Sam Scranton (synth), and myself (organ)
at Comfort Station Logan Square
w/ author Meghan Lamb
6.21.24

solo bibigwan and organ at Hoi Polloi, Avondale
6.29.24

May 2024

duo with Jeff Kimmel at Comfort Station Logan Square
5.9.24

premiere of “eternity (1)” for improvisers with Locus Ensemble
at Evoke Tattoos, Andersonville, Chicago
5.25.24

April 2024

performance of “what form will the spirit take”
by Prague Quiet Music Collective at Malý Berlín, Trnava, Slovakia
4.20.24

March 2024

improvised organ and 19-tone JI electric piano for Bloc_Sound
at Bim Bom Studios, w/ Carol Genetti and Hunter Brown
3.6.24

December 2023

solo on Hammond organ, Casiotone, and ARP 2600
opening for Jakob Heinemann's "Opacity" Quartet
12.10.23 at International Museum of Surgical Sciences

September 2023

neon moon for Schallfeld Ensemble
9.11-9.19.23 at Klangspuren Schwaz, Austria

new work for Prague Quiet Music Collective
9.24.23 at Prague City Gallery Zámek Troja

August 2023

solo organ + film for Quiet Comfort
8.31.23 at Comfort Station, Chicago, IL

Sun Diver (myself, Ben Zucker, Noah Jenkins, Kory Reeder)
8.2.23 at International Museum of Surgical Sciences, Chicago, IL

April 2023

it's all real for two piano, two percussion performed by Yarn/Wire for NUNC! 5
4.21-4.23.23 at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

the harvest manual for 1/6-tone harmonium performed by Miroslav Beinhauer for MicroFest Prague 2023
4.29.23 at Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, CZ

February 2023

driftless, 1 for flute, bass clarinet, and cello by New Music Mosaic
2.26.23 in Urbana, IL

January 2023

burnt canvas recording workshop with Talea Ensemble
Queens College, Queens, NY on 1.10.23

motionless rite for 4-hand piano performed by Audrey Vardanega and Eric Zivian of Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
1.29.23 at Berkeley Piano Club, Berkeley, CA
1.30.23 at SFCM, San Francisco, CA

September 2022

release of Three Fanfares on 9.1.22

August 2022

Organ Recital at the United Church of Strafford
Strafford, VT on 8.12.22

July 2022

Organ Recital at Epsilon Spires
Brattleboro, VT on 7.6.22

Organ Recital at Brandeis University, Composers Conference 2022
Waltham, MA on 7.29.22
works by Lang, Houben, and Langdon

June 2022

Organ Recital at The Church of Christ at Dartmouth College
Hanover NH on 6.21.22
Works by Vierne, Lang, Brown, Houben, and Langdon

May 2022

Thetford by UNIONBLOCK
(Weston Olencki, electromagnetic banjos and Jack Langdon, tracker organ)
released on May 20 by Lobby Art Records

UNIONBLOCK mini tour:
Cold Spring Hollow, Belchertown, MA on 5.20.22
Fall Line Series, Brooklyn, NY on 5.21.22
Avant Yard, Brooklyn, NY on 5.16.22

Organ Improvisation in Strafford, VT

April 2022

The Departure of Time performed by Michael Hope of Current Resonance
Lille sal, Musikuset Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark on 4.19.22
featuring a screening of
Charon guiding the weary ‘cross the Long River (or, how to care for a dying instrument)
by Weston Olencki and Jack Langdon

Organ Improvisation in Strafford, VT

Miniature Organ Improvisation in Hanover, NH

March 2022

premiere of Meditation: Psalm 23 for speaker, bells, and organ
at The Church of Christ at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 3.20.21

January 2022

Organ and ensemble performance at Thompson Memorial Chapel, Williams College, Williamstown, MA on 1.14.22

Less Than You Remember an album of solo organ music released on Sawyer Editions

clavier-übung 1: prelude and fugue for piano and electronics, to Jonathan Hannau at Constellation, Chicago, IL on 1.31.22

October 2021

slow returns (three lives in sound) for Sound American No. 27

September 2021

BIOMES 4.0 by Katherine Young and Yarn/Wire
sound contribution to installation at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY

August 2021

Charon guiding the weary ‘cross the Long River (or, how to care for a dying instrument)
in collaboration with Weston Olencki, premiered at Darmstadt Summer Course 2021

The Departure of Time for solo piano, to Jack Yarbough, premiered at Composers Conference Online

The Eternal Feeling for sextet, premiered by Composers Conference at Brandeis University, Boston, MA

Organ Improvisation at Mary Keene Chapel, Enfield, NH

June 2021

it's all real for two percussion and two pianos, to Yarn/Wire

new work for bass and organ, to Will Yager

March 29, 2021

hallucination of fleeting structures a film in three parts, premiere Dartmouth College

March, 15, 2021

guitar with fixed media and film

March, 5 2021

release of one flowing spark (EP)

Dec. 15 2020

guitar book 2: unreachable windows for tabletop guitar and fixed audio/visual media, performed by Jack Langdon

Dec. 9 2020

a room with no door for fixed audio/visual material featuring Kyle Hutchins, Virginia Tech New Music Ensemble, and Jack Langdon

August 7, 2020

I-90 for viola, for the 2020 Composers Conference, performed by Sebastian Stefanovic

July 12, 2020

something is happening for flute, piano, electric guitar, and cello, for Ensemble Dal Niente
for the DePaul Summer Residency for New Music 2020

July 7, 2020

dissolved through the fields for tenor saxophone, cello, and accordion premiered by Trio SÆITENWIND
in St. Petersburg, Russia for the St. Petersburg New Music Festival

March 5, 2020

premiere of endless light for kinetic sound objects, fixed media, and live electronics
performed by the composer, Hopkins Center for The Arts, Hanover, NH

February 17, 2020

premiere of outward (1) for electric guitar, performed by the composer
Hopkins Center for The Arts, Hanover, NH

October 24, 2019

Dartmouth Contemporary Music Lab at Top of The Hop, works by
Pauline Oliveros, Matt Evans, and a new work collectively composed by the ensemble

August 2nd, 2019

Premiere of Orgelbüchlein for organ and fixed media by Graeme Shields
at Second Reformed Church in Kalamazoo, MI

June 23rd - July 1st, 2019

Premiere of here (5): a hyperdocumentation for flute and fixed media
at SPLICE Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
performed by Sara Constant

June 14th, 2019

Premiere of here (7): land images, one for ensemble and field recording by Southland Ensemble
at Automata Arts, Los Angeles, CA

May 8th, 2019

Jack Langdon/Jonathan Harms performance at Elastic Arts, Logan Square, Chicago, IL
electric guitar duo

May 18th, 2019

Premiere of The Problem of The Surface for bass, piano, and fixed media
by Micah Stoddard and Jack Langdon at DePaul University, Chicago, IL

April 16th, 2019

Jack Langdon (org)/Jonathan Hannau (pno) perform for Music, Stillness, Solidarity at St. Vincent DePaul Church, Chicago, IL

April 4th - 10th, 2019

Premiere of multimedia opera here (4): a poetics of art labor
by Jack Langdon, Cosi Pori, Gabriel Coleman, and Yoshi Weinberg
at Mise-En Place Bushwick, NYC

Dec. 9th, 2018

Langdon/Sanders Duo performance, with Willem Mudde (cello) and Adam Lee Sanders (bass guitar)
at WITCH HOUSE, Grand Rapids, MI

October 16, 2018

premiere of here (3): sound images of the worker, part one by Jack Langdon, Adam Lee Sanders, and The Vital Organ Project
(Greenlight New Music Festival, Duluth, MN)

October 17, 2018

Langdon/Sanders Duo and QT at Bohemian Grave - 809 Charles Ave, St Paul, MN

October 18, 2018

Langdon/Sanders Duo and Musika Nova/ACH Large Ensemble at St. Olaf College - Northfield, MN

October 21, 2018

Langdon/Sanders Duo and Kelley Sheehan at Narloch Piano Studio - Chicago, IL

October 24, 2018

paper presentation at UTK Contemporary Music Festival 2018 - "Producing Musical Sociality: Towards an Installative Concert Practice"

August 29, 2018

Jack Langdon (harpsichord) and Kelley Sheehan (synth/live electronics) at The Musical Offering

July 17, 2018

Langdon/Mahoney Duo: Clouds by Eva-Maria Houben and premiere of fun (2): good night by Jack Langdon (Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL)

June 20, 2018

release of reorientation: 1

Apr. 7 2018

premiere of what do i do now by RenegadeEnsemble (Studio Z, St. Paul, MN)
2 amplified voices, amplified ensemble, and video

Apr. 26 2018

premiere of yeah uh hmm for the St. Olaf Percussion Ensemble (Urness Reictal Hall, Northfield, MN)

May 8, 2017

performance of division in Studio A, St. Olaf College
tpt: tristan frank/steven garcia, celeste: jack langdon, found objects: jamie koffler

May 12/13, 2017

premiere of the end of saro by The St. Olaf Lyric Theater
libretto: vashti kalvi daniel

Apr. 8, 2017

premiere of cataract by The St. Olaf Band
directed by Timothy Mahr @ Skogland Auditorium, St. Olaf College

Jan. 19, 2017

musika nova new music festival: cage and beyond (Flaten Art Museum, Northfield, MN)
performing Houben: nur ein klang (5) - pno. / Ablinger: Exercitum - gtr.

Jan. 21, 2017

musika nova new music festival: Weinberg/Betz (Fosnes Rehearsal Room, Northfield, MN)
performance of Infinities for flute and piano

Feb. 26, 2017

senior composition recital (Fosnes Rehearsal Room, Northfield, MN)
premieres of here (1), taking time, division, and mic studies

Jan. 8, 2017

Minnesota Sinfonia plays Angular Planes of Light (Temple Israel, Minneapolis, MN)

Jan. 7, 2017

Minnesota Sinfonia plays Angular Planes of Light (Temple of Aaron, St. Paul, MN)

Nov. 29, 2016

fresh ink composition recital (Urness Recital Hall, Northfield, MN)
premiere of 1.b by Willem Mudde, Adam Sanders, and Jack Langdon

Nov. 12, 2016

premiere performance of Eva-Maria Houben's find for organ (Boe Chapel, Northfield, MN)

Oct. 21, 2016

live electronics improvisation with Heather Klopchin, dancer (Studio One, Northfield, MN)

Oct. 20, 2016

live electronics improvisation with Jamie Koffler (gtr. and objects) and Gwen Christian (ocarina and voice)
(Groot Gallery, Northfield, MN)