Gordon H. Williams is an artist and musician creating work to study human conditions, with a focus on affect, perception and relation. He works in collaborative projects consisting of scores, performances, texts, videos and installations that attempt to realize ways of being together based in intimacy, hope and generosity.

Gordon creates works like After December: A Letter from the Planet E, a collaboration with Zhou Jinxiao consisting of a string quartet, evocative drawings and a science fiction letter with a narrative traveling from the ecstatic joy of love to disillusionment and the collapse of utopia, and finally to the resolve to hope and to carry on. He has been an artist in residence at Stichting CORPO, Arts, Letters & Numbers, Westben Centre for Connection and Creativity through Music, ISSP Riga, School of Commons and Goethe-Institut Niederlande. Gordon works primarily in collectives: hosting residencies and publishing cookbooks with Family Dinner, presenting exhibitions, workshops and performances with Fire is Scary, and co-organizing and researching with Hache Collective. 

As an organizer and educator, Gordon is committed to building accessible, inclusive and vital communities through art and music making. Gordon leads workshops in building shared leadership through improvisation and composition, and translation as a generative method/hybridizing process. His research compliments this work through the development of methods for decentralized music creation.

Gordon holds a Master’s in Music Composition from the HKU Utrechts Conservatorium.  He graduated magna cum laude from Gordon College with a bachelor’s degree in Music Education.