Photo by Katrina Wolfe - North Olympic Coast

Joey Largent is a semi-nomadic interdisciplinary artist from northern Arkansas based in Istanbul. His practices intertwine across geography, language, and memory, shaped by a mystical investigation of the emotional architectures of time, longing, held remembrance, and non-dual resonance. His musical work centers on long-duration compositions and improvisations for both acoustic ensembles and solo performance, the frequent integration of just intonation and extended field recordings, and working with artists from other disciplines as collaborators in his ensemble works.

He has released three full-length albums of his music, Earth Drones (2018), Levitation Practice in the High-Order Modal Stasis of Sema (2020), and Below Diorite Waters (2021, Dragon’s Eye Recordings), and has studied North Indian classical music with disciples of Pandit Pran Nath, including composer Michael Harrison and Rose Okada, with briefer studies under Pir Shabda Kahn and La Monte Young. He holds a degree in Geography and Middle East Studies from the University of Arkansas, and has collaborated widely with dancers, musicians, and interdisciplinary artists over the past decade.

Joey is also the founder and artistic director of Moon Below the Sun, a evolving project for supporting intentional literature, films, photography, and acoustic music from across geographies, with a primary focus on works in Türkiye, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the United States.