Glenn Branca (October 6, 1948 – May 13, 2018) was an American avant-garde composer, guitarist, and luthier. Known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series, he was a driving force behind the genres of no wave, totalism and noise rock.[1] Branca received a 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.
^Paul Hegarty, Noise/Music, A History (Continuum, 2007) p. 123
GlennBranca (October 6, 1948 – May 13, 2018) was an American avant-garde composer, guitarist, and luthier. Known for his use of volume, alternative guitar...
electric guitar noise music bands that involved GlennBranca (Theoretical Girls and Daily Life, performed by Branca, Barbara Ess, Paul McMahon, and Christine...
Theoretical Girls were a New York-based no wave band formed by GlennBranca and Jeff Lohn (a conceptual artist and composer) that existed from 1977 to...
Foole, William Winant, The Thing, Nels Cline, Cock E.S.P., John Moloney, GlennBranca, Yamantaka Eye, Beck, My Cat is an Alien, John Russell, Steve Noble,...
written and directed by Peter Greenaway, featuring original music by GlennBranca and Wim Mertens. Starring Brian Dennehy and Chloe Webb, it was nominated...
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Neutral Records is an independent record label. GlennBranca ran the label during the No Wave and post-punk scene in the Lower East Side, New York City...
philologist and critic Toni Branca (1916–1985), Swiss racing driver Ralph Branca (1926–2016), major league baseball pitcher GlennBranca (1948-2018), American...
No Sleep Records alum Former Thieves. They took their name from the GlennBranca composition. Slow Mass began in 2016. That year, they released their...
musical scales. Modern composers like La Monte Young, Rhys Chatham and GlennBranca paid much attention to a scale called just intonation. It is often thought...
Stockhausen, Helmut Lachenmann, Cornelius Cardew, Theatre of Eternal Music, GlennBranca, Rhys Chatham, Ryoji Ikeda, Survival Research Laboratories, Whitehouse...
New York City in 1976, and has worked with John Cage, LaMonte Young, GlennBranca, David Van Tieghem, and Peter Gordon. As a performer, Sublette is probably...
Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses is a CD release by GlennBranca from 2007, recorded in 1982. The CD also features an interview by Wim Mertens...
Manhattan School of Music. While there he played in avant-garde composer GlennBranca's guitar orchestra, performing the composer's Symphony No.6 (Devil Choirs...
best-known examples of this technique come from No Wave artists like GlennBranca and Sonic Youth. The 3rd bridge technique has a physical connection with...
in New York City that a number of them, including John Luther Adams, GlennBranca, Rhys Chatham, Kyle Gann, Michael Gordon, Arthur Jarvinen, Bernadette...
White Columns gallery, where Lee Ranaldo was playing as a member of GlennBranca's electric guitar ensemble. Their performance impressed Moore, who described...
often tending toward surreal theater, as in the early performances of GlennBranca and Jeffrey Lohn; and 2. subsequent to Rhys Chatham's influence, a transferral...
music experimental composers for the electric guitar Rhys Chatham and GlennBranca. In the early to mid-1980s, Poss studied under the tutelage of avant-garde...
co-edited by Jane M. Sherry and issues 5 through 7 were co-edited by GlennBranca. Issue formats include: zine, LP record, large format tabloid, magazine...
and just intonation such as Harry Partch, Ivor Darreg, Tony Conrad, GlennBranca, Bart Hopkin, and Yuri Landman constructed multistring variants of sonometers...
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