composer
& producer
Chris Campbell is an American composer, producer, and arts organizer known for his genre-blending works that intersect contemporary classical music, experimental sound, and post-minimalist aesthetics. His music often explores timbral transformation, extended instrumental techniques, and large-scale formal arcs that are grounded in an expressive, often meditative sensibility.
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A sound prayer and meditation in seven parts.
Grant Cutler weaves the present with the past in an effortless sliding from tangent to tangent. A blurred electric cloud brought to focus with Campbell on keys.
“Heady. [Possessing] elements of post-minimalism, avant-garde rock, jazz and global-fusion styles that mingle and merge with dreamlike mutability.”
The New York Times
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critical acclaim
“Highly recommended…it’s haunting music. A kind of residue of religious or liturgical music in a secular age. This is thoughtful artistic creation.”
The Wire Magazine
“A surreal (or super-real?) vortex. An astutely assembled montage that operates by setting up expectations it enjoys upsetting.”
Gramophone Magazine
“Oscillating between the comforting and the exotic, with occasional creepy moments.”
Time Out Chicago
