This Saturday, August 25 Winnipeg based visual artist Kristin Nelson will present a special event titled Sydney Sidney at the Sidney Community Centre in Sidney Manitoba. This project features sounds of the Sydney Opera House curtains (made by Nelson on a residency in Australia in 2015) as interpreted in 10 new audio compositions by: Andrea Roberts (MB), Casey Mecija (ON), Christine Fellows (MB), crys cole (MB), Gail Priest (AU), hannah_g (MB), Judith Rice (ON), Kelly Ruth (AB), Süss (MB) and Roger White (QC) with live ‘curtain piano’ by Dallas Nedotiafko. My contribution, Curtain Call, will premiere at this one-time listening event. Full details on the event are available here.

Two Words is the debut release of my collaboration with Australian musician Francis Plagne, out now on Black Truffle Records. This LP is a conceptual work that developed through our live collaborations and extensive conversations around merging things that seemingly do not ‘fit’ together. I’m so pleased with how this came together and feel very grateful to have this special piece out in the world! Big thanks to Francis, Joe Talia & Oren Ambarchi (Black Truffle). The album features words by Marty Hiatt (AU/DE) and a stunning cover painting – Poptones (2015) – by Australian painter Anne Wallace.

Album is available worldwide now through various shops & distros as well as directly through Kompakt.

Excerpts from the album:

Some fabulous reviews already out for the LP: 

https://nationalsawdust.org/thelog/2018/07/06/on-the-record-july-6-2018/

https://toneshift.net/2018/07/14/two-words-by-francis-plagne-x-crys-cole/

https://obladada.com/2018/07/18/revisio-francis-plagne-crys-cole-two-words/

https://www.thefourohfive.com/music/review/review-with-two-sides-francis-plagne-crys-cole-s-lush-endeavor-is-ethereal-in-the-purest-sense-153

This weekend Oren and i will head to Ghent, Belgium to perform our duo at De Koer. This concert will also be a debut LP launch for local artist Red Brut (Marijn Verbiesens) and is presented by the lovely folks at KRAAK. Concert is Saturday, May 26 at 20:00 – details here.

This week I am heading to Marseille, France for what should be a lovely evening of solo’s and a duo with wonderful Spanish composer/performer Clara de Asís. The event takes place on Wednesday, May 16 at Zoème as part of the Ernestine Series.

Full event details can be found here.

Next weekend, May 12 – 13 James Rushford and i (Ora Clementi) will perform at a wonderful 2-day festival FOCUS presented by Ina-GRM in Paris. We are thrilled and honoured to present our work at this very special 2-day event alongside an incredible program of artists; Ellen Arkbro (SW), Stíne Janvin (NO), David Rosenboom (US), Pierre Henry (FR), Eliane Radigue (FR) and Bernard Parmegiani (FR).

Our performance takes place on the evening of Saturday May 12 at le Centquatre-Paris .