Glenn Branca

Glenn Branca ( born October 6, 1948 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American avant-garde composer and guitarist. His works combine minimal music, harmonic series, Drone Music, Scordatura with rock and noise rock.

Branca started his musical experiments in Boston in the early 1970s he founded the theater company "Bastard Theater". In 1976 he moved to New York and played in various no wave bands such as The Static and Theoretical Girls. 1977, he joined with Rhys Chatham on in the Guitar Trio.

In the early 80s Branca composed works for electric guitar ensembles, including The Ascension (1981) and Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses (1981). Soon after, he wrote his first symphonies for electric guitars and percussion orchestra. In them he joined the booming industrial noise with microtonal elements. He also put a third bridge guitars. His preoccupation with the mathematical foundations of the theory of harmony is reflected in the Symphony No.. 3 (" Gloria " ) resist. Branca attacked while on ideas of Dane Rudhyar, Hermann von Helmholtz, and Harry Partch. Musicians with whom he already worked in this period include Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Page Hamilton of Helmet and various members of the Swans and of the Council At Council R.

From the Symphony No.. 7 Branca also composed works for traditional orchestra.

Branca is the second generation of post- minimalism, which is also called totalitarianism attributed. This direction continued the minimalist music of the 1960s and 1970s; her mark is a significant increase compared to the rhythmic and tonal complexity in an otherwise repetitive arrangement structure. He was known primarily for his fusions between rock music and minimalist elements, and later for his improvisational works for solo trumpet.

Discography (selection)

  • Songs 77-79
  • The Ascension, 1981
  • Lession No. 1 large
  • Symphony No.. 1 " Tonal Plexus " Music in Four Movements for Multiple Guitars, Keyboards, Brass & Percussion, 1981
  • Symphony No.. 2
  • Symphony No.. 3 " Gloria " Music for the first 127 Intervals of the harmonic series, 1983
  • Symphony No.. 4 " Physics"
  • Symphony No.. 5 " Describing Planes of an Expanding HyperSphere "
  • Symphony No.. 7
  • Symphony No.. 8 & 10, The Mysteries, 1994
  • Symphony No.. 9
  • The World UpSide Down
  • Soundtrack " The Belly Of An Architect " (with Wim Mertens )
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