Glenn Branca

Thursday, 27 December 2012

Glenn Branca - Symphony Nos.8 & 10: Live At The Kitchen

Glenn Branca 'Hallucination city symphony for 100 guitars'

Glenn Branca - Symphony 5 (live @ the Kitchen) PART 1

Glenn Branca - Light Field (In Consonance)

Glenn Branca - Symphony N°8 (The Mystery) - First Movement (The Passion)

Open Collage in a new Window

Email the Collage

Loading suggestions ...

Aarhus
Aarhus (Danish pronunciation: [ˈɒːhuːˀs] ( listen)) is the second-largest city in Denmark. The principal port of Denmark, Aarhus is on the east side of the peninsula of Jutland in the geographical center of Denmark. Aarhus is the seat of the council of Aarhus municipality with 315,193 inhabitants and 252,213 (1 January 2012) in the inner urban area. According to Aarhus municipality, the "Greater Aarhus" area has a population of about 1.2 million people. The city claims the unofficial title "Capital of Jutland".
Aarhus is the main and biggest city in the East Jutland metropolitan area (Danish: Byregion Østjylland), which is a co-operation in eastern Jutland with 17 municipalities. With more than 1.2 million people living in the East Jutland metropolitan area it represents approximately 23% of the population of Denmark. Aarhus has the second-largest urban area in Denmark after Copenhagen.
The city was mentioned for the first time by Adam of Bremen who stated that "Reginbrand, bishop of the church of Aarhus (Harusa)" participated in a church meeting in the city of Ingelheim in Germany.

wn.com/Aarhus
Boston
Boston (pronounced /ˈbɒstən/ or locally /ˈbɔstən/ ( listen)) is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper, covering only 48.43 square miles, had a population of 617,594 according to the 2010 U.S. Census. Boston is also the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region is home to 7.6 million people, making it the fifth-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States.
In 1630, Puritan colonists from England founded the city on the Shawmut Peninsula. During the late 18th century, Boston was the location of several major events during the American Revolution, including the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. Several early battles of the American Revolution, such as the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston, occurred within the city and surrounding areas. Through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the peninsula. After American independence was attained Boston became a major shipping port and manufacturing center, and its rich history now helps attract many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone attracting over 20 million every year. The city was the site of several firsts, including America's first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), and the first subway system in the United States (1897).

wn.com/Boston
Denmark
The Kingdom of Denmark (Danish: Kongeriget Danmark, pronounced [ˈkɔŋəʁiːəð ˈdanmɑɡ̊] ( listen)) is a constitutional monarchy and sovereign state consisting the country of Denmark in northern Europe and two autonomous constituent countries, the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic and Greenland in North America. The kingdom is a unitary state with some power being devolved from Denmark proper to Greenland and the Faroe Islands; this polity is referred to as the Danish Realm. Denmark proper is the hegemonial area, where judicial, executive, and legislative power resides. The Faroe Islands are defined to be a community of people within the kingdom, and the Greenlandic people are defined as a separate people with the right to self-determination.
Denmark is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, located southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. The country consists of a large peninsula, Jutland and many islands, most notably Zealand, Funen, Lolland, Falster and Bornholm, as well as hundreds of minor islands often referred to as the Danish Archipelago.

wn.com/Denmark
Emerson College
Emerson College is a private coeducational university located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a "school of oratory," Emerson is "the only comprehensive college or university in America dedicated exclusively to communication and the arts in a liberal arts context." Offering over three dozen degree programs in the area of Arts and Communication, the college is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc. Located in the Boston's Washington Street Theatre District on the edge of the Boston Common, the school also maintains buildings in Los Angeles and the town of Well, The Netherlands.
Charles Wesley Emerson founded the Boston Conservatory of Elocution, Oratory, and Dramatic Art in 1880, a year after Boston University closed its School of Oratory.^{[citation needed]} Classes were held at Pemberton Square in Boston. Ten students enrolled in the conservatory's first class. The following year, the conservatory changed its name to the "Monroe Conservatory of Oratory," in honor of Charles Emerson's teacher at Boston University's School of Oratory, Professor Lewis B. Monroe. In 1890, the name changed again to "Emerson College of Oratory" and was later shortened to Emerson College in 1939.

wn.com/Emerson_College
London
London ⁱ/ˈlʌndən/ is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is the world's leading financial centre alongside New York City and has the fifth-largest city GDP in the world (and the largest in Europe). London has been described as a world cultural capital. It was the world's most visited city during 2011 and London Heathrow is the world's busiest airport by number of international passengers. London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. In 2012 London will become the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games three times.

wn.com/London
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. The city is referred to as New York City or The City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. As a global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.
Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which comprises a state county. The five boroughs—The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a Census-estimated 2011 population of 8,244,910 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km²), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. The New York City Metropolitan Area's population is the United States' largest, with 18.9 million people distributed over 6,720 square miles (17,400 km²), and is also part of the most populous combined statistical area in the United States, containing 22.1 million people as of the 2010 Census.

wn.com/New_York_City
September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th or 9/11) were a series of four suicide attacks that were committed in the United States on September 11, 2001, coordinated to strike the areas of New York City and Washington, D.C. On that Tuesday morning, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally piloted two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours. The hijackers also intentionally crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and intended to pilot the fourth hijacked jet, United Airlines Flight 93, into a target in Washington, D.C.; however, the plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania after its passengers attempted to take control of the jet from the hijackers. Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks including the 227 civilians and 19 hijackers aboard the four planes, none of whom survived.

wn.com/September_11_attacks
Third bridge
wn.com/Third_bridge
World Trade Center
The original World Trade Center was a complex with seven buildings featuring landmark twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The complex opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2001 in the September 11 attacks. The site is being rebuilt with five new skyscrapers and a memorial to the casualties of the attacks. As of November 2011^[update], only one skyscraper has been completed; the other four are expected to be completed before 2020. One World Trade Center will be the lead building for the new complex, reaching more than 100 stories at its completion. It became the tallest building in New York City on April 30, 2012, and is expected to be finished by 2013. A sixth tower is awaiting confirmation.
At the time of their completion, the original 1 World Trade Center (the North Tower) and 2 World Trade Center (the South Tower), known collectively as the Twin Towers, were the tallest buildings in the world. The other buildings included 3 WTC (the Marriott World Trade Center), 4 WTC, 5 WTC, 6 WTC (which housed United States Customs), and 7 WTC. All of these buildings were built between 1975 and 1985.

wn.com/World_Trade_Center

Alec Foege
Alec Foege is an American author and magazine journalist. A former contributing editor to Rolling Stone, he is the author of three books: Confusion Is Next: The Sonic Youth Story (St. Martin's, 1994); The Empire God Built: Inside Pat Robertson's Media Machine (Wiley, 1996); and Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio (Faber and Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008). His writing also has appeared in The New York Times, People, Mediaweek, Adweek, Fortune Small Business, Spin, Variety, Vogue, and Corporate Counsel.

wn.com/Alec_Foege
Dan Braun
Dan Braun (born May 1961^{[citation needed]}) is a musician, composer, writer, editor, art director, and film producer.
Dan Braun and his twin brother Josh started several punk bands in high school in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, including Platinum Hardcore and Hack Ptooey. Their first real band was called Spinal Root Gang. Other members included Trey Sabatelli, Karen Fish, Janis Krasnow, Madonna Ciccone and their father, Saul Braun. Braun moved to New York City in 1979. Josh followed shortly thereafter, and they started the post-punk/no wave band Circus Mort with Rick Oller and Michael Gira, who later went on to form the Swans.
After recording one EP on Labor Records in 1981, Circus Mort broke up. Braun joined with Gira in the Swans for a short stint in 1982, and was on the album Body to Body, Job to Job (1991). He then went on to play with a myriad of New York bands and musicians including DNA co-founder Robin Crutchfield, performance artist Julia Heyward, and composer Pat Irwin. Dan and Josh then joined The Del-Byzanteens; Dan played drums. Other members of the band were Phil Kline and soon to be film director Jim Jarmusch. They recorded one album, Lies to Live By, and one 45 single, "Draft Riot". Braun also toured and recorded with avant garde/no wave composer Glenn Branca on his Symphony #5. Dan and Josh formed their own band in 1982 called Deep Six with Rick Oller, Trey Sabitelli, and Tony Braun, their younger brother. The band recorded one album, Garage D'or, on Twin Tone/Coyote Records in 1987 and released one single on #1 Records, "Pretty White/Looking for a Reason", in 1993. Braun played with producer Lefferts Brown in a band called Radio Firefight. Braun replaced Jules Baptiste from Red Decade on bass. The line-up was Braun on Vox bass and Lefferts on ARP 2500. The band played only two shows—one at the top floor of Danceteria and the other at the Speed Trials.

wn.com/Dan_Braun
Dane Rudhyar
Dane Rudhyar (March 23, 1895, in Paris – September 13, 1985, in San Francisco), born Daniel Chennevière, was an author, modernist composer and humanistic astrologer. He was the pioneer of modern transpersonal astrology.
Dane Rudhyar was born in Paris on March 23, 1895. At the age of 12, a severe illness and surgery disabled him, and he turned to music and intellectual development to compensate for his lack of physical agility. He studied at the Sorbonne, University of Paris (graduating at the age of 16), and at the Paris Conservatoire. His early ventures into philosophy and his association with the artistic community in Paris led to his conviction that all existence is cyclical in character. Influenced by Nietzsche as a youth, Rudhyar visioned himself as a "seed man" of new age cultural evolution.

wn.com/Dane_Rudhyar
Glenn Branca
Glenn Branca (born October 6, 1948 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. In 2008 he was awarded an unrestricted grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Branca started playing the guitar at age 15. He also created a number of tape sound art collage pieces for his own amusement. After attending York College in 1966-1967 he started the short-lived cover band The Crystal Ship with Al Whiteside and Dave Speece in the summer of 1967. Branca studied theater at Emerson College in Boston in the early 1970s. In 1973 he moved from Boston to London with his then girlfriend Meg English. After moving back to Boston in 1974 he met John Rehberger. While there, he began experimenting with sound as the founder of an experimental theater group called Bastard Theater in 1975.
Working out of a loft on Massachusetts Avenue they wrote and produced the music/theater piece "Anthropophagoi" for a 2 week run. The lead actor John Keiser was chosen in The Boston Phoenix as one of the best performances of the year. In 1976 The Bastard Theater's second production was "What Actually Happened" at a new loft in Central Square, Cambridge and later at The Boston Arts Group. Considering the unconventional and sometimes confrontational nature of the productions, the shows still received interested reviews from the Phoenix and The Boston Globe. All music for Bastard Theater productions were original compositions by Branca or Rehberger and were performed live by the actor/musicians.

wn.com/Glenn_Branca
Harry Partch
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer and instrument creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for custom-made instruments that he built himself, tuned in 11-limit (43-tone) just intonation.
Partch was born on June 24, 1901 in Oakland, California soon after his parents, both Presbyterian missionaries, fled the Boxer Rebellion in China. He spent his childhood in small, remote towns in Arizona and New Mexico, where he heard and sang songs in Mandarin, Spanish, and American Indian languages.
As a child, he learned to play the clarinet, harmonium, viola, piano, and guitar. He began to compose at an early age, using the equal-tempered chromatic scale, the tuning system most common in Western music. However, Partch grew frustrated with what he felt were imperfections of the standard system of musical tuning, believing that this system was unsuitable for reflecting the subtle melodic contours of dramatic speech and, as a result, he burned all of his early works.

wn.com/Harry_Partch
John Giorno
John Giorno (born 1936) is an American poet and performance artist. He founded the not-for-profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems and organized a number of early multimedia poetry experiments and events, including Dial-A-Poem. He became prominent as the subject of Andy Warhol's film Sleep (1963). He is also an AIDS activist and fundraiser, and a long-time practitioner of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
Giorno was born in New York. He graduated from Columbia University in 1958, where he was a "college chum" of physicist Hans Christian von Baeyer. In 1962, while in his early twenties he briefly worked in New York as a stockbroker. In 1962 he met Andy Warhol during Warhol's first New York Pop Art solo exhibit at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery. They became lovers and Warhol remained an important influence for Giorno's developments on poetry, performance and recordings. Giorno and Warhol are said to have remained very close until 1964, after which time their meetings were rare. Their relationship was revived somewhat in the last year before Warhol's death. Inspired by Warhol, and subsequent relationships with Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, Giorno began applying Pop Art techniques of appropriation of found imagery to his poetry, producing The American Book of the Dead in 1964 (published in part in his first book, Poems, in 1967). Meetings with William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin in 1964 contributed to his interest in applying cut up and montage techniques to found texts, and (via Gysin) his first audio poem pieces, one of which was played at the Paris Museum of Modern Art Biennale in 1965.

wn.com/John_Giorno
Kyle Gann
Kyle Eugene Gann (born November 21, 1955) is an American professor of music, critic and composer born in Dallas, Texas. As a critic for The Village Voice (from November 1986 to December 2005) and other publications he has been a supporter of progressive music including such Downtown movements as postminimalism and totalism.
As a composer his works fall generally into three categories:
Of particular importance in most of his music is the concept of repeating loops, ostinatos, or isorhythms of different lengths going out of phase with each other; the idea leads to simultaneous layers of different, mutually prime tempo relationships in his Disklavier and electronic works, and is used in a less obvious structural way in his live-ensemble music.^{[citation needed]} This concept can be traced back to suggestions in the rhythmic chapter of Henry Cowell's book New Musical Resources, but is also related here to inspirations from astrology, into which Gann was drawn by the writings of composer/astrologer Dane Rudhyar.^{[citation needed]}

wn.com/Kyle_Gann
Lee Ranaldo
Lee M. Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Ranaldo and his Sonic Youth bandmate Thurston Moore the 33rd and 34th Greatest Guitarists of All Time, respectively.
Ranaldo was born in Glen Cove, Long Island, and graduated from Binghamton University. He has three sons, Cody, Sage and Frey, and is married to the experimental artist Leah Singer.
Ranaldo started his career in New York in several bands and joining the electric guitar orchestra of Glenn Branca. Among Ranaldo's solo records are Dirty Windows, a collection of spoken texts with music, Amarillo Ramp (For Robert Smithson), pieces for the guitar, and Scriptures of the Golden Eternity. His books include several with art or photography by Leah Singer, including Drift, Bookstore, Road Movies, and Moroccan Journal: Jajouka excerpt (from a full-length book of writings on Moroccan travels and music). Ranaldo has also published Jrnls80s (published by Soft Skull Press), as well as a book of poems, Lengths & Breaths, with photography by Cynthia Connolly. His most recent book of poetry, Against Refusing, was published by Water Row Press in April 2010 with cover artwork by Leah Singer. His visual+sound works have been shown at galleries and museums in Paris, Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Los Angeles, Vienna, and elsewhere.

wn.com/Lee_Ranaldo
Michael Gira
Michael Rolfe Gira (pronounced jeer-AH) (born February 19, 1954) is an American musician, author, and artist. He is the main force behind the recently reformed New York City musical group Swans and fronts Angels of Light. He is also the founder of Young God Records.
Gira lived with his parents in a relatively affluent suburb of Los Angeles, California though they divorced when he was a young teenager. After staying with his alcoholic mother for much of his youth, he was sent to live with his father in Indiana and then Paris.
He ran away from home and hitch-hiked across Europe, and was finally arrested for selling drugs in Israel. Although he was only a teenager at the time, he was placed in an adult prison for four and a half months. His father found Gira with the aid of Interpol and sent him back to the United States.
Back in Los Angeles, he played in a band called Little Cripples (later to become Bpeople with LAFMS alumni Fredrik Nilsen and Tom Recchion) and enrolled in art school and imagined that he would someday be a visual artist (Gira sketched obsessively); however, he soon became disillusioned with the elitism and academia surrounding the art world and dropped out. However, Gira's interest in art is known to have affected his music; The Angels of Light song "Inner Female" is a study of Francis Bacon.

wn.com/Michael_Gira
Page Hamilton
Page Hamilton (born May 18, 1960 in Portland, Oregon) is a guitarist, singer and record producer, mostly noted for his work with alternative metal band Helmet. Most of his work has been in the heavy metal styles, but Hamilton, who was trained in jazz guitar, has also worked in other genres.
Raised in Medford, Oregon, Hamilton moved to New York to study jazz guitar in the early 1980s. While there, he "discovered distortion" and worked with composer Glenn Branca. Hamilton then joined Band of Susans for their Love Agenda album, after which he started Helmet.
Helmet recorded four albums in the 1990s: Strap It On, Meantime, Betty, and Aftertaste. They had moderate chart success, with their last three albums reaching the Billboard top 100, but difficulty keeping his bandmates together caused them to disband in early 1998. After Helmet split up, Hamilton started Gandhi, and toured with David Bowie. About this time he recorded with Ben Neill.^[when?]
He recorded Zulutime (duets with Caspar Brötzmann), played guitar on Ben Neill's Goldbug and Joe Henry's Trampoline, and wrote some music for the movie Heat. Hamilton has also made appearances on "Unbeliever" by Therapy?, "No, You Don't" by Nine Inch Nails, and "God Forbid" by P.O.D..

wn.com/Page_Hamilton
Rhys Chatham
Rhys Chatham (born September 19, 1952, New York City) is an American composer, guitarist, and trumpet player, primarily active in avant-garde and minimalist music. He is best known for his "guitar orchestra" compositions. He has lived in France since 1987.
Chatham began his musical career as a piano tuner for avant-garde pioneer La Monte Young as well as harpsichord tuner for Gustav Leonhard, Rosalyn Turek and Glenn Gould. He soon studied under electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick and minimalist icon La Monte Young and was a member of Young's group, The Theater of Eternal Music, during the early seventies; Chatham also played with Tony Conrad in an early version of Conrad's group, The Dream Syndicate. In 1971, while still in his teens, Chatham became the first music director at the experimental art space The Kitchen in lower Manhattan. His early works, such as Two Gongs (1971) owed a significant debt to Young and other minimalists.
His concert productions included experimenters Maryanne Amacher, Robert Ashley, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, and early alternative rockers such as Fred Frith, Robert Fripp, Arto Lindsay, and John Lurie. He has worked closely with visual artist/musician Robert Longo, particularly in the 1980s, and on an experimental opera called XS: The Opera Opus (1984-6) with the visual artist Joseph Nechvatal.

wn.com/Rhys_Chatham
Thurston Moore
Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moore was ranked 34th in Rolling Stone's 2004 edition of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."
Moore was born in Coral Gables, Florida, but was raised in Bethel, Connecticut. Although he enrolled at Western Connecticut State University, he instead moved to New York City to join the burgeoning post-punk/no wave music scenes. At the beginning of his time in New York, he lived in an apartment below artist Dan Graham, eventually befriending him, sometimes using records from Graham's collection for mix tapes.
Once in the city, Moore was briefly a member of the hardcore punk band Even Worse, featuring future The Big Takeover editor (and future Springhouse drummer) Jack Rabid. After exiting the band, Moore and Lee Ranaldo learned experimental guitar techniques in Glenn Branca's "guitar orchestras."

wn.com/Thurston_Moore
Wikipedia Persondata
wn.com/Wikipedia_Persondata

Glenn Branca / Lesson No. 1

...

published: 01 Jun 2011

author: meimish

Glenn Branca - The Ascension

Track: 05 Title: The Ascension Artist: Glenn Branca Album: The Ascension Year: 1981 Info: ...

published: 18 May 2011

author: hempyelmo

Glenn Branca - Symphony Nos.8 & 10: Live At The Kitchen

Symphony No. 8 (The Mystery): First Movement (passion), Second Movement (Spiritual Anarchy...

published: 15 Jun 2011

author: MVDmusicvideo

glenn branca solo 1978

glenn branca circa 1978...

published: 14 May 2006

author: sonichris

Glenn Branca - Carbon Monoxide

The Ascension: The Sequel - 2010...

published: 20 May 2011

author: CorporealPlane

The Drone: Glenn Branca (Interview)

Shot @ Villette Sonique, may 2011 www.the-drone.com...

published: 21 Jun 2011

author: theDRONEwebsite

Glenn Branca 'Hallucination city symphony for 100 guitars'

this is a rehearsal for Glenn Branca's 100 electric guitars symphony which he performed fo...

published: 24 Feb 2007

author: deborahcurtis

Glenn Branca - Symphony 5 (live @ the Kitchen) PART 1

Glenn Branca conducts(?) like a frenzied goat....

published: 31 Mar 2009

author: SMGSinc

Glenn Branca - Light Field (In Consonance)

...

published: 17 Sep 2009

author: rimbaudelairement

Glenn Branca Ensemble

Glenn Branca Ensemble (USA) // MIMI FESTIVAL 2012 // ÎLES DU FRIOUL // MARSEILLE Glenn Bra...

published: 09 Jul 2012

author: PennyGreenShard

Glenn Branca - Symphony N°8 (The Mystery) - First Movement (The Passion)

2004 - Symphony Nos. 8 & 10 - Live At the Kitchen (1/4)...

published: 17 Apr 2012

author: deathofthegenuine

Glenn Branca - Symphony No.3 (Gloria)

Second half of first movement....

published: 24 Sep 2009

author: electrikkar

Glenn Branca Ensemble @ Primavera Sound Festival

Glenn Branca conducts his ensemble at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, Spain. 20...

published: 31 May 2011

author: TheAsphZoomLensCorp

Glenn Branca - The Spectacular Commodity

Track: 02 Title: The Spectacular Commodity Artist: Glenn Branca Album: The Ascension Year:...

published: 15 May 2011

author: hempyelmo

Glenn Branca - Symphony Nos.8 & 10: Live At The Kitchen

Symphony No. 8 (The Mystery): First Movement (passion), Second Movement (Spiritual Anarchy...

published: 15 Jun 2011

author: MVDmusicvideo

Glenn Branca - Symphony 5 (live @ the Kitchen) PART 1

Glenn Branca conducts(?) like a frenzied goat....

published: 31 Mar 2009

author: SMGSinc

Glenn Branca Ensemble - Lesson No 3 Tribute To Steve Reich - Live @ Primavera Sound 2011

Primavera Sound festival Barcelona Thursday 26/5/2011 ATP stage www.glennbranca.com...

published: 01 Jul 2011

author: yuvalcauly

Glenn Branca - Live (Rote Fabrik, Zurich 14.05.1983) Part 1

This is an excerpt taken from the first movement of an unreleased live performance of Glen...

published: 13 Sep 2010

author: numlash

glenn branca solo 1978

glenn branca circa 1978...

published: 14 May 2006

author: sonichris

Glenn Branca 'Hallucination city symphony for 100 guitars'

this is a rehearsal for Glenn Branca's 100 electric guitars symphony which he performed fo...

published: 24 Feb 2007

author: deborahcurtis

Glenn Branca - Symphony N°8 (The Mystery) - First Movement (The Passion)

2004 - Symphony Nos. 8 & 10 - Live At the Kitchen (1/4)...

published: 17 Apr 2012

author: deathofthegenuine

Glenn Branca plays his Harmonics Guitar

Glenn Branca plays his 2-headed guitar....

published: 20 Jun 2010

author: Mike Marshall

Glenn Branca - Symphony 5 (live @ the Kitchen) PART 2

The second part....

published: 31 Mar 2009

author: SMGSinc

Glenn Branca - Live (Rote Fabrik, Zurich 14.05.1983) Part 2

Conclusion of the first movement taken from an unreleased live performance of Glenn Branca...

published: 19 Sep 2010

author: numlash

Glenn Branca - Symphony N°8 (The Mystery) - Second Movement (Spiritual Anarchy)

2004 - Symphony Nos. 8 & 10 - Live At the Kitchen (2/4)...

published: 17 Apr 2012

author: deathofthegenuine

Glenn Branca-Symphony No. 13: Hallucination City-St. Louis, MO

The St. Louis Symphony hosting Glenn Branca's Symphony for 100 Guitars, Symphony No. 13 (H...

published: 14 Nov 2008

author: snivelttam

Glenn Branca Phase SHIFT

...

published: 19 Jun 2009

author: contmo1

Glenn Branca Ensemble @ Primavera Sound Festival

Glenn Branca conducts his ensemble at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, Spain. 20...

published: 31 May 2011

author: TheAsphZoomLensCorp

<li class="playlistitemli thumbnail border_color">
        <div class="video_facebook">
            <a href="http://web.archive.org./web/20121227183521/http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://wn.com/glenn_branca&t=<%= title %>" title="Share this video" data-title="Share this video" target="_blank" style="target-name: new; target-new: tab;"></a>
        </div>

photo: Creative Commons / Axou

Aviva is a 68 metres (223 ft) length motor yacht, currently the 80th longest motor yacht in the world.

Steve Jobs' Mega-Yacht Free To Sail After Temporary Reprieve

Newsfactor

24 Dec 2012

Steve Jobs was controversial in life, and now his high-tech mega-yacht is associated with a controversy long after his death. The former Apple CEO's ship was impounded in Amsterdam in the middle of a financial battle over a disputed bill. Phillippe Starck, a French product designer and architect, has alleged that Jobs' heirs owe him 3 million euros for his work on Venus, the 256-foot yacht Jobs commissioned before his death ...   ... ....(size: 2.6Kb)

photo: WN / Janice Sabnal

Six dead as winter snowstorms pound US

Zeenews

27 Dec 2012

Washington. Six people, including two young children, were left dead in weather-related accidents, as winter snowstorms complicated travel for many Americans in the Midwest and Northeast on Wednesday. Snow totals in parts of Indiana ranged from 6 to 12 inches, CNN reported. About 350 snowploughs were clearing roads throughout the city. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told residents they should avoid nonessential travel ... IANS ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)

photo: AP

Members of Myanmar Fire Brigade team gather near a damaged Air Bagan passenger plane in Heho, Shan State, Myanmar, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012.

Two killed and 11 injured in Burma emergency landing

BBC News

25 Dec 2012

Two people, including a young child, have been killed and another 11 injured during an emergency landing in Burma, officials say. The Air Bagan plane was carrying more than 60 passengers, many of whom were foreign nationals ... "The cause of the accident is not clear yet ... ....(size: 1.4Kb)

photo: AP / Adel Hana

Christian worshippers and tourists celebrate at the Manger Square in front of the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Monday, Dec. 24, 2012.

Thousands enjoy Christmas in Bethlehem

Stuff

25 Dec 2012

Thousands of Christians from the world over have packed Manger Square in Bethlehem to celebrate the birth of Jesus in the ancient West Bank town where he was born. For their Palestinian hosts, this holiday season was an especially joyous one, with the hardships of the Israeli occupation that so often clouded previous Christmas Eve celebrations eased by the United Nations' recent recognition of an independent state of Palestine ... - AP. ....(size: 9.3Kb)

photo: AP / Hasan Jamali

From left to right, Bahraini Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, United Arab Emirates' Vice President Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Oman's Vice President Fahad bin Mahmoud, Kuwait's Emir Sheik Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Saudi Crown Prince Salam bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Qatar's Crown Prince Sheik Tameem Al Thani, and Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, pose for picture during the Gulf Cooperation Council GCC summit in Sekhir, Bahrain, Monday, Dec. 24, 2012.

GCC states slam Iran interference in region

Al Jazeera

26 Dec 2012

The six Gulf states have sharpened their tone against their neighbour Iran, demanding an immediate halt to its "interference" in their internal affairs while urging action to halt mass killings and violations of international law in Syria ... The council said they "reject and denounce" Iran's "continued interference" in their internal affairs that increase regional tension and threaten security and stability ... 419 Source .. Agencies. Share ... ....(size: 18.7Kb)

timeline:
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001

Downtown, Before the Gentry Moved In

The New York Times

25 Dec 2012

Enlarge This Image. Philip Greenberg for The New York Times. "Come Closer . Art Around the Bowery, 1969-1989" ... Connect With Us on Twitter ... Arts Twitter List ... Fliers that were originally (and illegally) wheatpasted downtown now cover the walls of a back hallway on the museum’s fifth floor, where the show is mounted, announcing long-ago performances by bands like the Contortions, Liquid Liquid, Y Pants, Glenn Branca and the Ramones ... 1 ... ....(size: 10.9Kb)

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

LA Weekly

14 Dec 2012

Friday, December 14. Thrill Jockey 20th-anniversary party with Wooden Shjips, Liturgy, Trans Am, Kid Millions. THE ECHOPLEX ... Brooklyn black-metal modifiers Liturgy bring an assaultive trance, whose formal cues derive from Steve Reich, Glenn Branca and Lightning Bolt; their feral grindcore comes refreshingly free of lyrical references to the horns of the goat or the bony finger of doom. John Colpitts was reborn as Kid Millions ... See also ... ....(size: 3.0Kb)

Liturgy finds the joy in black metal

San Francisco Chronicle

12 Dec 2012

But ask Liturgy leader Hunter Hunt-Hendrix if he could write the music for any given film, what movie would it be, and his answer surprises ... (The imprint is perhaps best known for its releases by post-rockers like Tortoise and psych peddlers such as Wooden Shjips.) But it works for Hunt-Hendrix, who has named Glenn Branca, Iannis Xenakis and Lightning Bolt as some of his musical touchstones ... 8 p.m. Thursday (Dec. 13). $18 ... (415) 771-1421....(size: 3.8Kb)

Thrill Jock Anniversary Party

LA Weekly

09 Dec 2012

Brooklyn black-metal modifiers Liturgy bring an assaultive trance, whose formal cues derive from Steve Reich, Glenn Branca and Lightning Bolt; their feral grindcore comes refreshingly free of lyrical references to the horns of the ......(size: 1.4Kb)

Irish opera finds its voice again, after years of discord

Irish Times

21 Nov 2012

MICHAEL DERVAN ... Apocalyptic, you ask? Well, let��s recap ... * Crash��s American Originals were Arnold Dreyblatt, whose Resonant Relations sounds like a minimalist dance where all the harmonies have been bent out of kilter, Nico Muhly, whose Drones, Variations, Ornaments has more than a whiff of Hollywood sentimentality about it, and Glenn Branca, whose Thought might best be described as an extended ugly drone with attitude ... ....(size: 7.0Kb)

Crash Ensemble

Irish Times

07 Nov 2012

MARTIN ADAMS. Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Nico Muhly. Drones, Variations, Ornaments. Kevin Volans. Looping Point. Glenn Branca. Thought. Donnacha Dennehy. Disposable Dissonance. This Crash Ensemble concert showed why this group is a powerhouse of new music ... One of the newly commissioned works was Thought by the 64-year-old American boundary-buster Glenn Branca ... A repeat hearing is necessary ... ....(size: 2.4Kb)

1992, Part 2: Once Upon A Time There Were Records For The Children To Buy…

Yahoo Music

26 Oct 2012

1992 was a year when most people didn't own a computer. You had one at work. Your phone was in your house and MTV still played videos. In fact, they were playing very different videos from the ones they were playing just a year and a half earlier ... Just listen to Norwegian Death Metal! But the Glenn Branca crowd had to crash the party with some math and these computations made the serious art crowd take notice of this metal thing ... Mr ... ....(size: 9.5Kb)

Dusted Reviews Artist: Talk Normal Album: Sunshine Label: Joyful Noise Review date: Oct. 23, 2012

dusted

23 Oct 2012

Driven by staccato drumming and jagged, humming guitar that borrows from the same Glenn Branca rulebook that Sonic Youth adapted, the deconstructed elements hang together in a charmingly ramshackle way ... Branca-esque shots of guitar that mark the title track its all strong stuff leavened with surprising moments of calm and secret bits of melody....(size: 2.3Kb)

Sonic Youth Albums From Worst To Best

Stereogum

06 Sep 2012

16 Photos Â». It is difficult to imagine indie rock without Sonic Youth. Only the Velvet Underground can reasonably boast a more important alternative history to the grand narrative of rock and roll ... Influenced equally by minimalist rock composer Glenn Branca and art punk bands like Crime and Swell Maps, the band challenged the status quo merely by existing ... The Countdown I came up with starts here. TweetTags. Sonic YouthÂ ... Dirty Turns 20 ... ....(size: 9.1Kb)

First of many for Beckett's 'most favourite music'

Irish Times

28 Aug 2012

The first Crash concert under the new arrangement is scheduled for November 2nd (clashing with Alan Smale��s premi��re of Frank Corcoran��s new Violin Concerto with the RT�� NSO) and will include pieces by Nico Muhly and Donnacha Dennehy as well as new works by Kevin Volans (Looping Point) and Glenn Branca (Thought). At the beginning of the month Crash launched a campaign on fundit.ieto raise ��6,000 towards the Branca commission....(size: 7.1Kb)

Celtic metalheads invade Baltics

Irish Times

10 Aug 2012

12. Alarmist. block-rocking treatsAlarmist. block-rocking treats. LAUREN MURPHY ... Kim ��n�� Cian Button up�� ... Tickets are ��5 on the door.A collision of ideas��. Dublin-based Crash Ensemble have launched a FundIt campaign to finance a commission by acclaimed guitarist and avant-garde composer Glenn Branca ... Among the items awarded to funders will be Branca��s original sketches of the work-in-progress and a meeting with the man himself....(size: 4.0Kb)

Listed: Deep Time + Todd Congelliere

dusted

29 Jun 2012

Deep Time. Deep Time got its start in 2006 as YellowFever. Jennifer Moore and Adam Jones quickly built a reputation in their native Austin with a series of self-released CD-Rs and a kinetic live show recalling any number of early-K Records luminaries ... 1. Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex. Sonic Youth's "Confusion Is Sex" was my introduction to unconventional music ... Sonic Youth lead me to Glenn Branca, DNA, Sonny Sharrock, etc... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... 8....(size: 12.9Kb)

The Best New Platters From The First Half of 2012

Yahoo Music

27 Jun 2012

I don't think for a second that my dear and loyal readers share my taste in music ... It's not evolved in any way. But I do think it's weirdly picky ... As the hummable Sonic Youther, Ranaldo defies his Glenn Branca arthouse upbringing and goes about writing modal drones and singsongs for everyone! It's just a shame he's a little past his teen idol years or else young girls would be screaming "Lee Is Free" the whole world over ... ....(size: 13.1Kb)

timeline:
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001

This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (January 2010)

Glenn Branca performing at Hallwalls in the 1980s

Glenn Branca (born October 6, 1948 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. In 2008 he was awarded an unrestricted grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

1 Life and work
2 Discography
3 Footnotes
4 See also
5 References
6 Further reading
7 External links
- 7.1 Listening

Life and work [link]

Beginnings: 1960s and early 1970s [link]

Branca started playing the guitar at age 15. He also created a number of tape sound art collage pieces for his own amusement. After attending York College in 1966-1967 he started the short-lived cover band The Crystal Ship with Al Whiteside and Dave Speece in the summer of 1967. Branca studied theater at Emerson College in Boston in the early 1970s. In 1973 he moved from Boston to London with his then girlfriend Meg English. After moving back to Boston in 1974 he met John Rehberger. While there, he began experimenting with sound as the founder of an experimental theater group called Bastard Theater in 1975.

Working out of a loft on Massachusetts Avenue they wrote and produced the music/theater piece "Anthropophagoi" for a 2 week run. The lead actor John Keiser was chosen in The Boston Phoenix as one of the best performances of the year. In 1976 The Bastard Theater's second production was "What Actually Happened" at a new loft in Central Square, Cambridge and later at The Boston Arts Group. Considering the unconventional and sometimes confrontational nature of the productions, the shows still received interested reviews from the Phoenix and The Boston Globe. All music for Bastard Theater productions were original compositions by Branca or Rehberger and were performed live by the actor/musicians.^[1]

New York: Late 1970s and 1980s [link]

Branca moved to New York in 1976. His first encounter with the NYC music scene was with the N. Dodo Band whom he observed many times at their rehearsal space - Phil Demise's "Gegenschein Vaudeville Placenter". This is where he first met Jeffrey Lohn who was playing electric violin with the N. Dodo Band. He then formed two bands in the late 1970s: Theoretical Girls in 1977 with composer/guitarist Jeffrey Lohn and photographer/musician Barbara Ess, and later The Static. He also recorded Ess's band Y Pants for their debut release on 99 Records and performed with Rhys Chatham's Guitar Trio in 1977,^[2] a noise music experience that was very important in the development of his compositional voice (Branca 1979). In 1982 Branca launched his own record label, Neutral Records, releasing Y Pants' LP and the first few records by New York noise rockers Sonic Youth.

In the early 1980s he released his first album under his own name, Lesson No.1. In the same year he composed several medium-length compositions for electric guitar ensembles, including The Ascension (1981) and Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses (1981). The Ascension appeared on his second same titled solo album in 1981, Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses was released not earlier then 2008 on cd. Soon after these two compositions, he began composing symphonies for orchestras of electric guitars and percussion, which blended droning industrial cacophony and microtonality with quasi-mysticism and advanced mathematics. Starting with Symphony No. 3 ("Gloria") (1983), he began to systematically compose for the harmonic series, which he considered to be the structure underlying not only all music but most human endeavors. In this project, Branca was initially influenced by the writings of Dane Rudhyar, Hermann von Helmholtz, and Harry Partch. He also built several electrically amplified instruments of his own invention, expanding his ensemble beyond the guitar. A few of these instruments were third bridge zithers he called "harmonic guitars". And he built instruments with large amounts of strings he called mallet guitars, because they were percussion instruments played with drumsticks, monotone electric cymbaloms with an additional third bridge on resonating positions. Early members of his group included Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Page Hamilton of Helmet, and several members of Swans including Michael Gira and Dan Braun.^[3]

Recent work: 1990s to present [link]

In the early 1990s, David Baratier attempted to document Branca's teaching style in They Walked in Line. In September 1996, The Glenn Branca Ensemble played at the opening ceremony for the Aarhus Festival in Denmark. The ceremony took place in the Musikhuset Opera House, and in the audience were the Queen of Denmark, the mayor of Aarhus and other dignitaries. After receiving more than 25 major commissions since 1981 Branca's music has finally begun to receive academic attention. Some scholars, most prominently Kyle Gann, consider him (and Rhys Chatham) to be a member of the totalist school of post-minimalism.

Beginning with "Symphony No. 7", Branca began composing for traditional orchestra, although he never abandoned the electric guitar. Branca 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 June 2001, three months before the center's destruction in the September 11 attacks. Since that time his 100 guitar piece has been performed in cities all over the U.S. and Europe. In 2008 he wrote his 14th Symphony, entitled "The Harmonic Series", which is performed by a traditional orchestra. The first movement of this symphony, named "2,000,000,000 Light Years From Home" premiered in St. Louis performed by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Robertson on November 13, 2008. This was the 12th major orchestra to perform Branca's orchestral work since 1986.

In 2008, he was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award as well as a Caps grant in 1983, an award from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1988 and a NYSCA grant in 1998, all for music composition. In 2010 Fortissimo Records re-released Brancas 1981 album The Ascension as a special edition on 180 grams vinyl and Branca wrote a piece The Ascension: The Sequel, which was released in the same year on the label Systems Neutralizers. This follow up piece led to new interest in his work and notable performances at Primavera Sound Festival 2011 and Villette Sonique 2011.

Discography [link]

Lesson No. 1 (99 Records, 1980)
The Ascension (99 Records, 1981, Acute Records 2001, Fortissimo Records 2010)
Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses, (Atavistic, 1981/2007)
Bad Smells from Who Are You Staring At? with John Giorno (GPS, 1982)
Chicago 82 - A Dip In The Lake (Crepuscule, 1983)
Symphony No. 3 (Gloria) (Atavistic, 1983)
Symphony No. 1 (Tonal Plexus) (ROIR, 1983)
The Belly of an Architect (Crepuscule, 1987)
Symphony No. 6 (Devil Choirs At The Gates Of Heaven) (Blast First/Atavistic, 1989)
Symphony No. 2 (The Peak of the Sacred) (Atavistic, 1992)
The World Upside Down (Crepuscule, 1992)
The Mysteries (Symphonies Nos. 8 & 10) (Blast First/Atavistic, 1994)
Les Honneurs Du Pied from Century XXI USA 2-Electric/Acoustic (various) (New Tone, 1994)
Symphony No. 9 (l'eve future) (Point, 1995)
Faspeedelaybop from Just Another Asshole (various) (Atavistic, 1995)
Songs '77-'79 (Atavistic, 1996)
Symphony No. 5 (Describing Planes Of An Expanding Hypersphere) (Atavistic, 1999)
Empty Blue (In Between, 2000)
Movement Within from Renegade Heaven by Bang On A Can (Cantaloupe, 2000)
The Mothman Prophecies [Soundtrack] (contributed 1-minute "Collage") (Lakeshore Records, 2002)
The Ascension: The Sequel (Systems Neutralizers, 2010)
Symphony No. 7 (Graz) (Systems Neutralizers, 2011)

Footnotes [link]

^ Marc Masters, (2007) No Wave London, Black Dog Publishing, p. 112
^ Marc Masters, (2007) No Wave London, Black Dog Publishing, p. 124
^ Marc Masters, (2007) No Wave London, Black Dog Publishing, pp. 114-118

References [link]

Marc Masters, (2007) "No Wave", Black Dog Publishing, London
Paul Hegarty, Noise/Music: A History (2007) Continuum International Publishing Group
RoseLee Goldberg, Performance: Live Art Since 1960 (1998) Harry N. Abrams, NY NY

External links [link]

Edited monologue about Branca's career as told to Alec Hanley Bemis
GlennBranca.com
EST Interview by and (c) Brian Duguid.
Theoretical Girls by Paris Transatlantic magazine

Listening [link]

Glenn Branca interview
Glenn Branca: "Acoustic Phenomena" (3:59) published on the Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine @ Ubuweb

Persondata
Name	Branca, Glenn
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	October 6, 1948
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Branca

This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.

Branches of Mathematics

Pure mathematics

Applied mathematics

Related Topics

Branca, Glenn Filmography

Make changes yourself !

Make changes yourself !

Contents

Life and work [link]

Beginnings: 1960s and early 1970s [link]

New York: Late 1970s and 1980s [link]

Recent work: 1990s to present [link]

Discography [link]

Footnotes [link]

See also [link]

References [link]

Further reading [link]

External links [link]

Listening [link]

http://wn.com/Glenn_Branca

Related pages:

http://fr.wn.com/Glenn Branca

http://nl.wn.com/Glenn Branca

http://pt.wn.com/Glenn Branca

http://de.wn.com/Glenn Branca

http://it.wn.com/Glenn Branca

http://pl.wn.com/Glenn Branca

http://cs.wn.com/Glenn Branca

http://ru.wn.com/Бранка, Гленн

http://es.wn.com/Glenn Branca