Wednesday, July 8th at the West End Cultural Centre— crys cole and Oren Ambarchi return to Winnipeg, fresh off the 2026 release of ‘Sparkling or Silent,’ a detailed, richly associative electroacoustic collaboration on the Portraits GRM label. Do not miss this rare prairie appearance, featuring a performance from Hazel Fog. Advance tickets are on sale now.

crys cole is a Canadian sound artist working in composition, performance, sculpture and installation. Generating subtle and imperfect sounds through haptic gestures and seemingly mundane materials, she creates textural works that continuously retune the ear.

Oren Ambarchi is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, “re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it’s no longer easily identifiable as itself. Instead, it’s a laboratory for extended sonic investigation”. (The Wire, UK). 

Hazel Fog envelops the listener in analogue textures and warbling drone, weaving allusive field recordings into tapestries of magnetic abstraction.