Matthew Langford is a composer, trumpet player, and experimental interdisciplinary sound artist. Influenced by his sixth-generation Floridian roots, 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, and the Supernova World on Fire Festival. His collaborators include visual artist Jeremy Grant, graphic novelist R. Alan Brooks, various creatures, objects, and memories, and a 400-gallon tank of water.

 

Most recently in 2024, Langford completed a solo recording project and sound installation at the TANK Center for Sonic Arts with an upcoming album release in the coming year. His creative process allows for intuitive discovery within conceptual design frameworks. Some of his current explorations involve transitional space, memory, impermanence, nonlinear forms, and an unusual attention to the ways in which sound fills its environment. 

 

While he is at home in experimental spaces, Langford performed professionally in orchestras and chamber music settings for over a decade, alongside artists at the Brevard Music Center Orchestral Studies Institute, the London Symphony Orchestra Youth Institutes, and as a member of the world-renowned Eastman Wind Ensemble. 

 

Langford holds a Master of Music degree and an Arts Leadership Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. He is on the music teaching faculty at Fountain Valley School of Colorado where he lives and works today.