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

8.7.25

Jeff Kimmel (clarinets), Jack Langdon (bibigwan),
Stephan Haluska (harp), & Adam Shead (percussion)
Comfort Station
Chicago, IL

8.8.25

Jack Langdon (bibigwan)
Marmalade
Chicago, IL

8.21.25

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

10.12.25

Jack Langdon (bibigwan)
The Whistler
Chicago, IL

BIOGRAPHY, CV, CONTACT

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