The Cedar Presents
NOISE PARTY Vol. 10
Sunday, April 27, 2025/ Doors: 6:30 PM / Show: 7:00 PM
All Ages
Mixed Seated and Standing
$24 Advance, $29 Day of Show
*For Cedar Presented shows, a $4 facility fee is included in the ticket price (Ticket fee info here).
This is a seated and standing 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.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Noise Party has returned. The beloved local showcase of ambient, drone, noise, and experimental music celebrates its 10th offering, bringing strange yet soothing sounds to The Cedar. Vol. 10 will feature ask SERPENT, Boy Dirt Car, MAKR AN ERIS, Sawtooth Witch, Sophia Deutsch, and White Dune performing thirty-minute uninterrupted unique sets and help create a tapestry of unique sound that will only exist within Noise Party Vol. 10.
All of this with a background of live experimental visuals to guide the way.
Noise Party
A former mainstay at Mortimer’s Bar and Icehouse, Noise Party is honored to be celebrating its tenth volume at the legendary Cedar Cultural Center for an All Ages audience.
Noise Party is not simply a music showcase, it’s an opportunity for artists to break outside of their mold and create music in a whole new light. Don’t expect basic structure and sets, for Noise Party is a true expression of artistic creativity and embracing a different side of approaching music.
To learn more about Noise Party:
askSERPENT
askSERPENT blends resampled feedback and lo-fi plunderphonics from SEER with the digitally manipulated vocals and disorienting synthesis of Chippu. The resulting sound is highly textural, sometimes glitchy, abrasive experimental electronic. A signal breaks through the makeshift transponder. Do you turn an ear to listen??
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Boy Dirt Car
Founded in 1981. Outlaws, Outsiders and Artifacts have played a part of Boy Dirt Car from the very inception. Along with the nightmarish chaos and improvisation that has exposed evidence of a decaying culture in 1980’s abandoned soundscapes. These sounds have now been replaced with an artifact that echoes the final vision of destruction of the western world . Now in our fourth decade Boy Dirt Car and our joyful noise have continued. The participants have changed as the voyage has continued long past our launch in 1981. A great debt of gratitude is owed to everyone living or dead who has contributed to Boy Dirt Car: performers, recordists, listeners, drivers, poets, barbers, film makers, disc jockeys, critics, fellow travelers, short order cooks, con men, gas station attendants. All friends and foe’s alike. These 44 years have included live performances across our continent with Einsturzende Neubauten, Sonic Youth, Psychic TV, Shockability, Big Black, TSOL, Pussy Glore, Fred Frith, Zev, Die Keuzen, Drekka As well with decades of recordings have been documented by a dozen available via Industrial Coast No Rent Records, RRRecords, SubPop, After Music Recordings, and reissued in Australia by Lexicon Devil.
"Boy Dirt Car creates a sound not like being in a car crash, but of being under one”
Boy Dirt Car has always been composed of outsiders, and will always be outsiders. Now is the only thing that is real.
"...Why bother with Boy Dirt Car? For the simple reason that they are one of the great missing links in '80s U.S. punk-noise underground culture"
"Boy Dirt Car may hardly be a household name in the world of pop, but for noise aficionados worldwide, those three words conjure up visions and dreams of a time when the words "noise" and "industrial" really meant something..."
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MAKR AN ERIS
MAKR AN ERIS is a Rapper/Producer duo based out of Minneapolis composed of MAKR & Sophia Eris. Mark McGee aka MAKR is a composer and producer from Richmond, VA. His projects include RONiiA, Marijuana Deathsquads, Father You See Queen, and To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie. Lauren Alford aka Sophia Eris is an Artist/DJ/Composer from Dayton, OH who’s projects include The Chalice, GRRRL PRTY, and touring DJ for Grammy award winning Lizzo. Both raised by military families (MAKR-Navy, Sophia- Air Force), they somehow both found their way to Minneapolis in pursuit of their musical interests. After graduating with a music business degree in 2009, Sophia Eris began circulating through the Minneapolis music scene where she met MAKR in 2012. It wasn’t until 2020 that the two began collaborating with each other due to sharing the same studio space at Mid City Studios in Uptown. They shared a common love for Hip Hop which grew into a mutual respect and admiration for one another. Together the music they create invokes a nostalgic feel of 90’s and 2000’s Hip Hop reminiscent of duo’s such as Missy & Timbaland, Clipse & Pharrell, and Lil Kim & Biggie. In their upcoming project LILITH, they will be exploring their sound even more, to what some would label “Alternative Hip Hop”. Project set to release spring 2025.
To learn more about MAKR AN ERIS:
Sawtooth Witch
Sawtooth Witch (fka Theyself) is a genre bending artist that mixes acoustic fingerstyle harmonies with electronic inspired dance beats.
The result is a melting pot of indie rock, Pop, R&B, house and blues with introspective, mantra-like lyrics.
Sawtooth Witch has toured the country for years as independent musicians, and their infectious live show and innovative approach to production have earned them a diverse and loyal audience.
To learn more about Sawtooth Witch:
Sophia Deutsch
Sophia Deutsch is a Minneapolis-based cellist and composer whose work bridges experimental sound and classical tradition. Guided by the cello, her music embraces a full spectrum of beauty—from the grotesque to the sublime. In her practice, electronics expand the subtle overtones of acoustic instruments and auxiliary percussion, revealing new sonic landscapes through resonance, overtone, and dissonance. A well-utilized collaborator in the Twin Cities music scene, she is known for her improvisational sensibilities and melodic creativity, performing across genres with groups like Dahlheimer, Firehouse, and American Cream. Improvisation and collaboration flow freely into her compositional practice, evolving from live performance into intentional explorations of notation and form.
Recognized by the Jerome Foundation and The Cedar Cultural Center, she was awarded the 2022-23 Cedar Commission for Vis Vitae, a chamber ensemble piece blending traditional, aleatoric, and experimental notation. Current projects include Pull, a multimedia collaboration with harpist, vocalist, and filmmaker Victoria Carpenter that combines long-form improvisation with visual storytelling and filmmaking. In March 2025, Sophia will begin research for a new chamber orchestra composition during her residency at Hypatia-in-the-Woods in Puget Sound, Washington. Looking ahead, she looks forward to returning to live improvised performance at Noise Party at The Cedar Cultural Center, April 27.
To learn more about Sophia Deutsch:
White Dune
White Dune is the electronic music project of Minneapolis drummer Dave Power (Solid Gold, Bathtub Cig, Cult Vibes, Jake La Botz, 58 Belvedere). He creates Boards of Canada-influenced IDM, downtempo, and ambient/drone tracks for a retro-futuristic apocalyptic wasteland.
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