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PAST EVENTS
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 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
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
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 and fixed media, premiered by Composers Conference at Brandeis University, Boston, MA
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
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 electronic improv with Heather Klopchin, dancer (Studio One, Northfield, MN)
Oct. 20, 2016
live electronic improv with Jamie Koffler (gtr. and objects) and Gwen Christian (ocarina and voice)
(Groot Gallery, Northfield, MN)
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 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
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
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 and fixed media, premiered by Composers Conference at Brandeis University, Boston, MA
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
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 electronic improv with Heather Klopchin, dancer (Studio One, Northfield, MN)
Oct. 20, 2016
live electronic improv with Jamie Koffler (gtr. and objects) and Gwen Christian (ocarina and voice)
(Groot Gallery, Northfield, MN)