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Date: Saturday, June 27, 2026
Time: Performance at 6:30 - 7:30 PM; doors open at 6 PM
Venue: Gallery 881, 881 East Hastings Street, Vancouver
Parking: Plenty of free street parking in front of and across from the gallery
Cost: $25 / $30 at the Door
Please note that you should present your purchase receipt at the door for entry.
Vancouver-born composer and violinist Jack Campbell returns home to perform at his favourite Vancouver venue, Gallery 881. Featuring a programme of original works for solo violin and electronics, this concert explores themes of time, colour, memory, and the complex relationship between culture, technology, and the twentieth century, in dialogue with Michael Love's exhibition.
The programme includes Colossus, for violin, machine sounds, and archival voices, which reimagines the wartime codebreaking process behind the world's first programmable electronic computer; A Music Not Without Majesty, a work inspired by probability theory, the Poisson distribution, and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, exploring artistic tensions that emerged during the Cold War; and Birdsong No. I, an open-form solo violin work based on transcriptions of Canadian birdsongs gathered through two years of acoustic-ecological fieldwork.
Echoing the exhibition's themes of decay, reuse, transformation, and the intersection of human catastrophe with the natural world, this concert invites audiences to reflect on how the conflicts, technologies, and environments of the past continue to shape our present and future.
Jack Campbell is a Canadian composer, concert violinist, arts producer and recording artist. Called a “Prodigiously Gifted Young Violinist” (The Strad) and a “Young Master of the Arts” (London Daily News), Campbell has performed in: Canada (Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Gulf Islands); England/Wales (London, Milton Keynes, Bradford, Wrexham, Ely, Swansea, Carlisle, Hereford, Durham, Chester, York, Brighton, Bangor); France (Bordeaux, Paris); Germany (Berlin, Brandenburg, Donaueschingen); Netherlands (Amsterdam); Poland (Poznan); Switzerland (Basel, Bern, St. Gallen); Ukraine (Kiev); and the United States of America (New York City).
Current album releases are: “No Room For Error”(Andreas Kahre, percussion, Alexander Varty, electronics/guitar, Redshift, label); “Sounding Bombe; Enigmatic Music” (Jack Campbell, violin, Neil Osborne, producer, Peacefully Detached, Label); Planets (Jack Campbell, violin, Hank Bull, piano, Arthur Bull, guitar, John Brennan, drums, Liam Murphy, Saxophone, Scatter Archive, Label); and Inventions (Jack Campbell, violin, Hank Bull, piano, Vancouver Art Records, Label). He is also a member of the Lightsounds Duo with Cheslav Singh (London, Piano) and Duolouge with Pwyll Ap Sion (Wales, Piano).
Photo Credit @ Jeff Topham
Date: Saturday, June 27, 2026
Time: Performance at 6:30 - 7:30 PM; doors open at 6 PM
Venue: Gallery 881, 881 East Hastings Street, Vancouver
Parking: Plenty of free street parking in front of and across from the gallery
Cost: $25 / $30 at the Door
Please note that you should present your purchase receipt at the door for entry.
Vancouver-born composer and violinist Jack Campbell returns home to perform at his favourite Vancouver venue, Gallery 881. Featuring a programme of original works for solo violin and electronics, this concert explores themes of time, colour, memory, and the complex relationship between culture, technology, and the twentieth century, in dialogue with Michael Love's exhibition.
The programme includes Colossus, for violin, machine sounds, and archival voices, which reimagines the wartime codebreaking process behind the world's first programmable electronic computer; A Music Not Without Majesty, a work inspired by probability theory, the Poisson distribution, and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, exploring artistic tensions that emerged during the Cold War; and Birdsong No. I, an open-form solo violin work based on transcriptions of Canadian birdsongs gathered through two years of acoustic-ecological fieldwork.
Echoing the exhibition's themes of decay, reuse, transformation, and the intersection of human catastrophe with the natural world, this concert invites audiences to reflect on how the conflicts, technologies, and environments of the past continue to shape our present and future.
Jack Campbell is a Canadian composer, concert violinist, arts producer and recording artist. Called a “Prodigiously Gifted Young Violinist” (The Strad) and a “Young Master of the Arts” (London Daily News), Campbell has performed in: Canada (Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Gulf Islands); England/Wales (London, Milton Keynes, Bradford, Wrexham, Ely, Swansea, Carlisle, Hereford, Durham, Chester, York, Brighton, Bangor); France (Bordeaux, Paris); Germany (Berlin, Brandenburg, Donaueschingen); Netherlands (Amsterdam); Poland (Poznan); Switzerland (Basel, Bern, St. Gallen); Ukraine (Kiev); and the United States of America (New York City).
Current album releases are: “No Room For Error”(Andreas Kahre, percussion, Alexander Varty, electronics/guitar, Redshift, label); “Sounding Bombe; Enigmatic Music” (Jack Campbell, violin, Neil Osborne, producer, Peacefully Detached, Label); Planets (Jack Campbell, violin, Hank Bull, piano, Arthur Bull, guitar, John Brennan, drums, Liam Murphy, Saxophone, Scatter Archive, Label); and Inventions (Jack Campbell, violin, Hank Bull, piano, Vancouver Art Records, Label). He is also a member of the Lightsounds Duo with Cheslav Singh (London, Piano) and Duolouge with Pwyll Ap Sion (Wales, Piano).
Photo Credit @ Jeff Topham