The Cedar Presents alone-a “a veil, a prism” album release with Zack Baltich and Kenan Serenbetz Thursday, April 9, 2026 / Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 7:30 PM All Ages Seated $17 Advance, $20 Day of Show Buy Tickets *For Cedar Presented shows, a $4 facility fee is included in the ticket price (Ticket fee info here). This is a seated show with general admission, first-come-first-served seating. The Cedar is happy to reserve seats for patrons who require special seating accommodations. To request access accommodations, please go to our Access page. For Cedar presented shows, online ticket sales typically end one hour before the door time, and then, based on availability, tickets will be available at the door. Tickets purchased at the door will include a $1 Eventbrite fee. LISTEN alone-a | Tamarack Land Co-op ABOUT THIS SHOW Vocal looping, processed percussion, and hymns to the natural world come together in this album release for alone-a, creating an evening of ambient and experimental music rooted in intimacy and atmosphere. alone-a Photo by Michael Wellvang Minneapolis sound artist and performer alone-a (Alana Horton) foregrounds the human voice while digitally fracturing, refracting, and reshaping it in real time. Her debut album, a veil, a prism, explores memory and transformation through layered delays, unstable loops, and intimate vocal textures. Using a Max/MSP software instrument to capture her voice, she creates unpredictable loops that move in stereo and interlock in ungridded ways to surprising, chaotic, and ecstatic ends. The album captures improvised moments from performances in Minneapolis and Chicago that have been collaged into new forms with producer and mix engineer Christian Erickson (The Sevateem, Astronaut Wife). The nine songs move between immersive ambient soundscapes and lyrical passages, inviting listeners into threshold states—spaces of transition, change, and transformation. a veil, a prism treats technology not as a tool for polishing the voice, but as a means of revealing its fractures and emotional weight, offering a work grounded in the beauty of impermanence. For fans of: Julianna Barwick, Lyra Pramuk, Holly Herndon, Grouper, and other voice-driven ambient and experimental electronic music rooted in intimacy and atmosphere. To learn more about alone-a: Visit her website here Zack Baltich Duluth, Minnesota, based percussionist and composer Zack Baltich blends organic percussion with processed electronics, analog synthesis, and subtle digital manipulation. Often working in spaces not meant for music, he’s found that place can tether his work to the histories, geographies, and acoustic personalities of the spaces that his music happens in. In addition to his personal work, Zack collaborates regularly with folk band Ginger Bones, MN superproducer Lazerbeak, choreographer Mathew Jaczewski’s Arena Dances, and many others. Past projects have been supported by the American Composer’s Forum, Cedar...
