JACK LANGDON

is an experimental composer, filmmaker, and writer who was born in 1994 and is a citizen of the sault ste. marie tribe of chippewa indians.

nindaa gichi-neyaashiing

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

UPCOMING EVENTS

11.1-6.25

Jack Langdon (bibigwan)
workshop for Olivia Shortt’s The Museum
of Lost and Found: Gaakaazootaadiwag
Indigenous Creation Studio
Mississauga, ON

11.9.25

Jack Langdon (bibigwan), Sara Constant (flute), and Olivia Shortt (saxophone)
House Show
Toronto, ON

11.14.25

premiere of ‘seven spirals’ for bibigwan and miniature pipe organ
NE/X: A Festival of Indigenous Performance

Northrup-King Building
Minneapolis, MN

TBD

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

premiere of “Gravissima” for solo tuba by Jenny Bement
Phoenix, AZ

premiere of “Mystery Spot” by Fonema Consort

BIOGRAPHY, CV, CONTACT

PHOTO BY HANNAH KRUSE

burnt canvas
for piano trio

September 2021

19 min.
no performance

reading/recording:
Talea Ensemble
Queens College
Queens, New York
1.21.23
score
recording

burnt canvas was the first piece written after graduating from my master’s degree. It is a somewhat longer work that explores sonorities that echo distantly of classical repertoire. Quiet stasis and the disappearing of sound form a resemblance of classical music but a distant one. The possibility of it lies beyond the horizon. This work was written in Thetford, Vermont and bears some marks of my time there.

This piece was gratiously workshopped and recorded by Karen Kim, Chris Gross, and David Friend through Talea Ensemble’s recording residency at Queens College. Gratitude to Adrian Morejon, Tori Cheah, and Gleb Kanasevich for supporting the recording of this work.

This is the work I am most sore about it not having a performance. If you are in a piano trio and interested in giving the premiere, please get in touch.

Category
Composition