Noise Party, now on its 14th edition, is the premiere Minneapolis-based experimental music series that highlights the best established and underground artists from numerous musical backgrounds. Each Noise Party event is meticulously curated to offer the most coherent yet diverse batch of music to create an atmosphere like you’ve never experienced before. Noise Party is not a traditional concert, as artists will play back to back in batches of three, with an intermission dividing the night. Accompanied by live analog-based visuals by Shane Donahue, Noise Party is an immersive, one of a kind audio-visual experience that can only be experienced in a live setting. Each Noise Party is a completely different experience from the last, so come and see what Volume 14 has to offer Sunday, June 7th at the Cedar.
noise party vol. 14
june 7th, 2026
the cedar cultural center
minneapolis, mn
6:30pm doors / 7:00pm music
all ages
BIZLANG
BIZLANG — a collaboration between Christian Erickson (Byzantine Beatbox, The Sevateem, Astronaut Wife, Woodland Mall 1981) and Alana Horton (alone-a, The Controversial New "Skinny Pill") — is a shared vocabulary of voice, loops, beats, synthesis, noise, patterns, math, oracles and vibes built over a year-long practice of duo improvisation. This is their first performance.
Dracala Gril!
Dracala Gril! is the experimental noise project of Alan Sparhawk (Low, Black Eyed Snakes, Retribution Gospel Choir, Derecho Rhythm Section) and Haley Fohr (Circuit Des Yeux)
Robert Lehmann & Toby Ramaswamy
Raised in culturally mixed households in the U.S., Robert Lehmann and Toby Ramaswamy prefer to exist in the in between - somewhere at the intersection of the Philippines, India, Germany, and the Midwest. Fittingly, the keys and drums duo play improvised music that’s hazy in its boundaries - not quite jazz, not quite neoclassical, not quite minimalist, not quite drum and bass. On keyboard, Lehmann pulls in melancholic melodies from Romantic and Impressionist era piano studies, the heavy bass lines of electronic music, and influences from years of playing in afrobeats and Arabic music ensembles. Ramaswamy glides between tight, propulsive strings of beats and loose, open textures evoking nature. For Ramaswamy and Lehmann, improvisation is a commitment to vulnerability and an avenue of inquiry into liminality as much as it is an approach to crafting sound.
For this Noise Party, Toby and Robert will offer a rare all synth performance, without drumset.
Shahghasemi/Ylvisaker
A collaboration between Aida Shahghasemi, Jeremy Ylvisaker, and Max Ylvisaker.
Aida Shahghasemi is a singer-songwriter with roots in Iran. She has collaborated with music ensembles from around the world and mostly makes art in Minnesota. She has created three albums and is a McKnight music fellow. She occasionally teaches at Minneapolis College of Art and Design focusing on critical theory and dissection of creativity.
Jeremy Ylvisaker is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, teacher, and visual artist whose music and images are influenced by decades of wildly disparate collaborations with artists both popular (e.g., a Grammy winning record by Laufey, also Bon Iver, John Prine, Suki Waterhouse, Sara Bareilles, Andrew Bird, Bruce Hornsby) and, more often, underground. These friendships are reflected in many solo recordings; with his trio Alpha Consumer; in his multimedia series Nights for All Time; in his contributions to soundtracks such as Aggregate States of Matters (MoMA), Reframed: Forgotten Film Remembered (Walker Art Center), and Macbeth on Broadway; and in an improvised score alongside Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Some of his favorite art is collaborations between taggers, the people who paint over their tag, and the people who mark where utilities are.
Max Ylvisaker is a multidisciplinary maker of things. He is inspired by pigeons, graffiti, dandelions, circuit boards, thunderstorms, the rainbowy backs of CD’s, and his time participating in Guitar Party. He is currently pursuing a BFA in animation at Minneapolis College of Art and Design
starflower
starflower is a collective electro-acoustic trio consisting of Anna Dolde on saxophone and electronics, Ross Clowser on Guitar and Synthesizer, and Toby Ramaswamy on drums and computer. Highly improvised, but grounded in the aesthetics of contemporary creative music, early electronic music, groove and all things expressive.
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