Matthew Langford (he/him) is a composer, trumpet player, and sound artist living in Colorado. 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. Through deep listening and immersive sonic environments, he explores the ways sound can shape perception and facilitate release, awareness, and connection while interacting with held space. 

 

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 have included visual artist Jeremy Grant, graphic novelist R. Alan Brooks, various creatures, objects, and memories, and a 400-gallon tank of water. 

In 2024, Langford completed a solo recording project and sound installation at the TANK Center for Sonic Arts, a site known for its profound resonance and capacity to hold sound in extraordinary ways with a unique natural reverb that can last up to 40 seconds. His upcoming album, centered on his own journey through grief, abstracted memory, and transformation will be released in the coming year. 

 

While he is at home in experimental spaces, Langford performed professionally in orchestras and chamber music settings for over a decade before shifting his focus toward composition and exploring interdisciplinary sound art, consciousness, and many other mediums. His creative process allows for intuitive discovery within conceptual design frameworks, often engaging with themes of transitional space, memory, impermanence, and the ways sound uniquely fills and interacts with its environment. His primary trumpet, one purchased for $500 at a used instrument store in Central Florida, has remained a constant through his ever evolving artistic journey. 

 

Langford holds a Master of Music degree and an Arts Leadership Certificate 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.