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

4.13.26

premiere of “The Requested Chords” for chamber orchestra
by Contemporaneous
Roulette, Brooklyn, NY

4.15.26

Jack Langdon (bibigwan) and Mabel Kwan (keys)
Tangible Books
Bridgeport, Chicago, IL

5.14.26

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

BIOGRAPHY, CV, CONTACT

PHOTO BY HANNAH KRUSE

Three Fanfares
Jack Langdon, organ

released September 1, 2022
IMPREC/Cassauna Tapes

recorded, mixed, mastered by Jack Langdon

recording

review by Chris Farnsworth

Three Fanfares was recorded during the same residency as Anthony Vine and I’s The Generous Law. This recording featured three improvised works which utilized the distinct, colorful voice of the Fisk Organ at Houghton Chapel in three different manners. The opening track “Big Loud” developed an explicitly harmonic usage of the instrument, with the sub-semitone keys functioning to color and destabilize the otherwise diatonic language of the work. The second track “Shivering River Valley” explored phase-cancellation and pitch beating which resulted from tuning individual ranks inside the organ against eachother, producing novel timbres resulting from amplitude modulation. The final track of the work “landfill lightbulbs” took the model of the organ trio as an inspiration and subjected fragmentary repetition and deconstruction to commonplace melodic material.

Chris Farnsworth of Seven Days had the following to say: “It's hard to place exactly where an album such as Three Fanfares belongs. Is it experimental? Not really, since Langdon is using a tuning system even Johann Sebastian Bach occasionally employed. It is ambient? Here and there, but there's too much structure on some tunes to qualify. Is it weird? Hell yes. And that's a good thing.“

Category
Composition, Performance

Langdon, Houghton Chapel, CB Fisk Op. 72