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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 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...
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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 world for decades.
May 13, 2018 · "Glenn Branca's fire-breathing music is a turbulently successful mix of sonic pioneering and experimental melodics with rock-solid, butt-kicking guitar thrash. Branca was out front directing, breathing and lurching with the pulse, extracting some of the most incredible chord combinations ever known to the guitar."
May 15, 2018 · Branca, who has died aged 69, turned guitars into permanently climaxing choirs of noise – and blew apart the world of minimalist composition. T he experimental guitarist and composer Glenn ...
- Geeta Dayal
May 15, 2018 · The New York composer and No Wave player, who died at age 69, created overtones that still shimmer across generations of noise-rockers.
