Tank@B2 featuring Matthew Langford: subtle vessel

In one morning recording session, subtle vessel was recorded live in the seven-story aquatic space known as the Tank Center for Sonic Arts in Rangely, Colorado. This is the culmination of a two-year-long recording project by Matthew Langford that began as a voice memo he made at a piano in Lakewood, Colorado on July 26th, 2022. 

Mirroring and adding to Alvin Lucier's process for I Am Sitting in a Room, he made live re-recordings of the original voice memo on July 26th, 2023 while adding layers with trumpet, flügelhorn, and simple delay effects. 

Bringing a body of water into the Tank for the first time, on the morning of July 26th, 2024, Langford began by soaking for thirty minutes in a 400-gallon tank of water while the recordings he had made on the same day one and two years in the past were played into the Tank and re-recorded once more. While standing in the tank of water, he then made five more re-recordings while continuing to add layers with trumpet and flügelhorn to complete this full length album.

This material will be presented at the B2 Center for Media Arts & Production in a Spatial Audio listening session, followed by a Q&A with Matthew.