Join us for this architecturally inspired musical concert at Gallery 881.

MUSICIANS: Jack Campbell, Hank Bull, & John Brennan
DATE: Thursday, April 25, 2024
TIME: Doors open 6:30pm; Performance 7 - 8pm; Doors close 9pm
LOCATION: Gallery 881, 881 East Hastings, Vancouver
TICKETS: $30; Please present your receipt at the door

This work is a piece of improvisational modern classical music composed and structured by Jack Campbell in response to the theories outlined by Le Corbusier in his notorious historical essay Five Points of Architecture. Despite being widely influential in structural, visual, and physical mediums, the work of Corbusier has been largely unnoticed and unsung in the musical field. This piece—divided into five movements, each based on a different “point”—reflect and interpret such theorizing in three ways: a) by directly modelling the compositional form of the piece after Corbusier’s structural theory b) by considering Corbusier’s thinking on public engagement and role within the sonic textures of the piece to enhance a modernist listening experience c) and socially reflects in tambour, rhythm, harmony, and musical colour the theoretical and technical principles behind the concept Corbusier mobilizes. This piece is an open form, event-based/graphically-notated score composed by Jack Campbell, and performed-by/improvised on by a trio of Jack Campbell, Hank Bull, and John Brennan.