Dan Langa is a Northampton, MA-based composer, producer, recording and mix engineer primarily focused on electroacoustic music that explores vivid, bold textures. A collaborative spirit, Langa often works across mediums and genres, teaming up with other artists in film, dance, and other areas of music to create multimedia works. 

Langa’s recent projects emphasize these strong interests in cross-disciplinary collaboration. He is currently writing and producing a new album with GRAMMY award-winning producer and New Amsterdam Records Co-Founder William Brittelle, which takes its inspiration in Aidan Koch’s 2016 zine After Nothing Comes. Like Langa’s compositions, Koch’s drawings explore the contours of texture, evoking dream-like moods and landscapes. In 2024-25, Langa is served as a So Percussion Studio Resident with the electroacoustic trio Other Faces. This trio, comprised of Kristian de Leon, Adam Lutz, and Langa will record their debut EP in 2025.

A sought after producer, engineer, and composer for film and television, Langa works primarily out of The Honey Jar recording studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

Langa has received awards, grants, and recognition from the ASCAP Foundation, Ucross Foundation, Fire Island National Seashore, I-Park Foundation, Du Vert à L'Infini Festival, RED NOTE New Music Festival, Hot Air Music Festival, So Percussion Summer Institute, Bang On A Can Summer Festival, Fresh Inc Festival, The Ear Competition, Amherst College, New York University, and the University of South Carolina Spark Laboratory.

Langa is the co-founder of cmntx records, a New York City-based and artist-run record label committed to supporting the music and careers of artists with distinct, multifaceted outputs. cmntx records was founded in 2021 along with Alex Ring Gray, Evan O. Adams, and Michael Denis Ó Callaghan.

Additionally, Langa is one of the founders of ‘the present kairos,’ a multimedia project exploring language and the kaleidoscopic core of individual words. With this project, words are presented as deconstructed representations of their meaning through music, visual art, and poetry in hopes of breaking through preordained definitions. Throughout 2024 into early 2025, they worked with composer Phong Tran to present ‘unfolding,’ a new work focused on cross-medium influence and collaboration supported by a grant from the American Composers Forum.

Langa earned his BA in Music from Amherst College graduating magna cum laude with highest departmental honors studying with Eric Sawyer, John McDonald, Bruce Diehl, Eric Wubbels, and Ryan Vigil. He was awarded the Eric Edward Sundquist Prize for excellence in musical composition and performance. Langa received his Master’s Degree in Music Theory and Composition from New York University studying with Julia Wolfe and Robert Honstein. He holds teaching positions at Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, and Smith College.