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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.
May 13, 2018 · "Glenn Branca is a rock 'n roll renegade who has left the standard rock circuit behind to become a trailblazing new music iconoclast. Branca's music is absolutely hypnotic, building with an enormous cascading crescendo that seems nonstop and nonstoppable.
May 15, 2018 · May 15, 2018. “A bomb blast across the musical world” is how the artist Tony Oursler described Glenn Branca’s first albums. Mr. Branca, who died this week at 69, helped shape that musical...
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May 15, 2018 · Branca was a pioneer of New York No Wave and a mentor of Sonic Youth, Swans and Helmet. He was known for his 1982 album The Ascension, which used alternative tunings and volume as compositional elements.
Nov 5, 2020 · TRACKLIST0:00 - Lesson No. 24:55 - The Spectacular Commodity17:34 - Structure20:43 - Light Field (In Consonance) 29:01 - The Ascension-----...
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May 15, 2018 · Glenn Branca, the guitarist and composer who merged noise and art music and who influenced a generation of New York artists, has died at age 69. His wife, the guitarist Reg Bloor, posted an...
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May 15, 2018 · Glenn Branca, a composer who began his musical life playing with influential Downtown rock bands in New York in the 1970s, but whose omnivorous musical curiosity soon led him to create a hybrid...
