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 other side of the air
Jeff Kimmel, clarinet & Jack Langdon, organ
released February 7, 2025
Dinzu Artefacts

recorded by Alicia Li (Northwestern University)
mixed and mastered by Nick Broste

recording

review by Peter Margasak

the other side of the air is the first recording that Jeff Kimmel and I made following a year of working on a practice together. In the performances and sessions we played in the year prior, we focused on developing a language of intonation which remained ungrounded in a single system, but emphasized the vibrancy and dynamism of close-interval sonorities through retuning my organ and through various clarinet multiphonics.

Peter Margasak had to say about this release: “Those harmonic feasts are addictive, pulling me into the sound and allowing my mind to get lost in those cascading, undulating tones. Sounds align, unleashing the infectious sweep of beating patterns, and clear intonation becomes sour with the incursion of the slightest pitch adjustment.” (Nowhere Street)

Category
Composition, Performance

Langdon & Kimmel, Constellation Chicago