alone-a with Zack Baltich and Kenan Serenbretz
Vocal looping, processed percussion, and hymns to the natural world come together in this album release for “a veil a prism,” the debut album from alone-a, creating an evening of ambient and experimental music rooted in intimacy and atmosphere.
Thursday, April 9, 2026
Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 7:30 PM
Tickets $17 advance / $20 day of show
At The Cedar Cultural Center
All Ages
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.
alone-a
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.
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 Cultural Center, Minnesota State Arts Board, Prairie Ronde Artist Residency, and Loghaven Artist Residency. Zack is a recipient of the 2025 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Musicians administered by MacPhail Center for Music.
Kenan Serenbretz
Kenan Serenbetz creates music that explores and extols the web of relationships that we share with all the beings of the earth. Whether crafting intricate textures of winds and strings, composing dense contrapuntal vocal harmonies, or singing with choruses of birds and insects out in the field, Kenan utilizes his own distinctive command of sound and concept to convey the need for right relationship with the natural world. His work is rooted in preindustrial vocal traditions, ecology, and plant medicine.