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

The Harvest Manual
for 1/6th tone harmonium

November 2022

10 min.
first performance by:
Miroslav Beinhauer, harmonium
Academy of Performing Arts
Prague, CZ
4.29.23
score
recording

The Harvest Manual was written for the unique 1/6th-tone harmonium built by August Forster on occasion of the Microfest Prague festival of microtonal music. This instrument is most closely associated with the Czech composer Alois Hába who wrote several pieces for the instrument. Czech pianist Miroslav Beinhauer was the performer who gave the first performance.

This work was the inciting factor in a fascination that would develop of how a “harmonic language” can be constructed through emphasizing voice leading in sub-semitone pitch space rather than assuming its indentiy must be determined by vertical intervalic qualities.

Category
Composition