Glenn Branca

Glenn Branca is an avant garde composer and guitarist.

His early music was performed in No Wave bands of the late 1970s in New York, namely The Static and Theoretical Girls. He soon thereafter began composing symphonies for orchestras of electric guitars and percussion, which blended droning industrial cacophany and microtonality with quasi-mysticism and advanced mathematics. Early members of his ensemble included Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, as well as Page Hamilton of Helmet. He also plays duets for excessively amplified guitars with his wife, and conducted his 13th symphony for 100 electric guitars at the base of the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001. He recently finished his 14th symphony, which he has performed in France, Belgium, Germany, and in the US with a quartet that includes his wife Regina Bloor on guitar, Tony Cenicola on drums, and Ryan Walsh on bass guitar. More information on his music can be found on his webpage below.

External link

• GlennBranca.com
• EST Interview by and (c) Brian Duguid.

Listening

• Epitonic.com: Glenn Branca featuring track from The Ascension