Joey Largent

Joey Largent’s work explores the relationships between sound, environment, and context, delicately interweaving acoustic instruments with natural landscapes. His focus encompasses both improvised music for dance and long-duration solo and ensemble compositions, often working with just intonation, feeling-based improvisation, timeless-based performance, and long, subtle tones that gradually unfold over time. Much of his performance and recording practices are done in site-specific, isolated locations in nature, ranging from the terminal chambers of lava caves, to mountain summits, to the intersections of abandoned architecture with the natural environment. Joey has studied North Indian classical vocal music primarily with <a href="spotify:artist:09b9oXw3X9LhhKA8GJsMDT" data-name="Michael Harrison">Michael Harrison</a> and Rose Okada, as well as shorter studies with <a href="spotify:artist:5h2yl4fuAyztOOBgMRyQhE" data-name="La Monte Young">La Monte Young</a> and Shabda Kahn, all disciples of the late vocal master <a href="spotify:artist:6CfG9ca9WNfm6UCck4asst" data-name="Pandit Pran Nath">Pandit Pran Nath</a>. Joey’s work seeks to produce deep feeling and experience through sound-- one that is strongly immersive, sensitive, and relational to the experience of feeling full presence in an environment, giving the opportunity to explore the expansive qualities of place, self, and memory through listening alone.