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.

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

UPCOMING EVENTS

3.8.26

Jack Langdon (bibigwan), Luke Martin (tone generator), Jeff Kimmel (clarinet), Graham Stephenson (trumpet)
Frequency Series at Constellation
Chicago, IL

3.17.26

performance of “Fish Laying Egg in a Circle” by Brightwork Ensemble
Tuesdays at Monk Space
Los Angeles, CA

5.14.26

performance of new work for clarinet by Zach Good
Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

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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