Matthew Langford

My set will include a sequence of improvisations inspired by the visual artwork of Jeremy Grant. If visual projection is possible, I would like to project images of Jeremy's work behind me while I perform.

Program Notes:
Langford will explore themes of natural elements and wordless, abstract languages. Natural elements will be a main focus through a steady stream of sound and silence guided visually by the work of long time collaborator, visual artist, and friend, Jeremy Grant.

Matthew Langford is a sound artist, composer, trumpet player, and improviser living in Colorado. Informed often by his childhood growing up in the swampland of Central Florida, his work explores the embodied nature of things; of creature, substance, and place, co-creation, the obscuring of time and space, and the phenomenological mysteries of all that is in between.

Langford has composed for New York City's Brass Project and members of the Ossia New Music Ensemble, Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, and the Colorado Symphony. His work has been featured in the Denver Film Festival, the Denver Digerati Experimental Media Festival, the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, the Supernova World on Fire Festival, and the Tank Center for Sonic Arts. His most recent and upcoming work includes album releases on the Editions Glomar and Discreet Archive labels and a Creative Residency at the ATLAS B2 Center for Media Arts & Performance.

Langford holds a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and is on the music teaching faculty at Fountain Valley School of Colorado where he lives and works on the ancestral lands of the Nuuchiu people.

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