Glenn Branca

Thurston Moore is a musician who, aside from being in the legendary band Sonic Youth, has collaborated with everyone from Glenn Branca to Lydia Lunch to Mike Watt. Moore is also a writer, poet, ardent supporter of bold weirdos and fiery...

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The music was often times noisy and focused on texture rather than melody. Some notable artists from the scene were Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth, and DNA. No Wave would later inspire the Noise Rock scene of the 80s. Noise Rock relied on...

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Glenn Branca performing at Hallwalls in the 1980's Glenn Branca (born October 6 1948 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is a highly influential avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings ,...

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...culture, in which the traditional notion of the "classical" continues to be reconsidered, revised, rejected and reimagined. Glenn Branca has composed 13 symphonies: six for electric guitars, three for harmonic series instruments, three...

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...and consulted with the label on its choice of works by contemporary composers such as Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars, and Glenn Branca. Mertens also curated a series of releases for a Crepuscle imprint, Lome Arme, that featured works from...

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...of the mid-season festival. Past seasons have seen "Minimalist Jukebox,'' a sweeping survey of minimalism from seminal Steve Reich to Glenn Branca's "Hallucination City'' for 100 electric guitars; "Shadows of Stalin'' a multifaceted take on...

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...an insistent snare drum snap on every downbeat, intuitively capturing and embodying the bandmates' shared love of Sonic Youth and Glenn Branca on the one hand, and the industrial soul of Motown on the other. What followed were some fine...

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...on to record such dentist-office fluff as "If You Leave Me Now" and "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" were on some proto-Sonic Youth (hell, proto-Glenn Branca and proto-Rhys Chatham, too) shit. Even Jimi Hendrix, whom Kath was homaging with "Free Form...

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...no-wave sound does little to disappoint. The first track off Destination Tokyo could easily pass as a B-side to post-composer Glenn Branca's 1981 seminal no-wave album The Ascension. Beginning with an incessant dull ringing from what...

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Live Minimalism From New York: Shoko Nagai/Satoshi Takeishi, Signal, Rhys Chatham, Terry Riley & Glenn Branca These Japanese New Yorkers are giving the second performance of Abysm (there was a gig at Roulette in February), an ambitiously...

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