Circuit Benders Ball Goes Global on the Web The first virtual version of the anything-goes experimental fest unites local and regional acts with artists from Canada, Eastern Europe and beyond Tweet
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Circuit Benders Ball Nashville s biennial summit for noiseniks, synth obsessives and gear-builders and tinkerers of all stripes took its act online over the weekend. CBB is the brainchild of Tony Youngblood, who founded it in 2010 and curated the first three editions before handing the reins to current organizer (and master of ceremonies)
Tyler Blankenship in 2017. But CBB s overarching aim to break down formalist, academic notions about what is and isn t avant-garde music has stayed consistent through the years, lending a hand in fostering a fertile, eclectic and exponentially growing crop of outside-the-box music-makers across the South.
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There are quite a few ways you might know Jack Silverman. In 2014, he ended a 17-year run as a
Scene staffer â though heâs still a contributing editor and writesfor uson occasion â to focus on his first love: playing guitar. Since then, much of his energy has been focused on Grateful Dead tribute band The Stolen Faces, which weâd call a pretty great group whether he was in it or not. Heâs also joined up with the Nashville Ambient Ensemble (which weâll have even more on in next weekâs
Scene) and finished a solo instrumental EP called