Sam Wenc is a composer, improviser, and interdisciplinary artist working with sound, text, performance and installation. As a multi-instrumentalist, he utilizes guitar, pedal steel guitar, vibraphone, electronics, field recordings, and found objects to compose structured and formless work that is curious about the themes and parameters of “folk" music.

Wenc has released music on Where to Now, Moone Records, Noumenal Loom, Sweet Wreath, and Obsolete Staircases. He has performed throughout the US, Canada, and Peru. He’s been artist-in-residence at Elektronmusikstudion EMS (Stockholm, Sweden) and Art OMI (Ghent, NY). In 2022, he composed the score for artist Sophia Giovannitti’s short film “A Monopoly of Violence” presented at Duplex Gallery NYC.  He received a MFA in Music & Sound at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

Tyler Blankenship is a Nashville based artist and musician who loves to experiment and play with possibilities, the main form of which for years has been through producing and curating the Circuit Benders Ball festival.

As one half of the group Neon Black, he sings while playing synth and drum machine, veering through gothic post punk structures and promptly collapsing them into pools of poetry and swirling ambient sounds. His recent solo work is part aural stream of consciousness and part musical self-discovery featuring looping motifs and live synth patching.