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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 . [1]
May 13, 2018 · Glenn Branca, the Glenn Branca Ensemble, with photos, discography,reviews, list of upcoming gigs, information on Ensemble members and their music
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...
May 15, 2018 · Mr. Branca, who died this week at 69, helped shape that musical world for decades. Several worlds, in fact: Informed by conceptual art as well as rock, his band Theoretical Girls was central to...
May 15, 2018 · Glenn Branca, the guitarist and composer who merged noise and art music and who influenced a generation of New York artists, has died at age 69.
May 14, 2018 · The pioneering avant-garde composer and guitarist Glenn Branca who helped shaped New York’s No Wave scene in the 70s and 80s has passed away from throat cancer at aged 69, reports Billboard.
May 15, 2018 · Branca was a pioneer of New York No Wave and a mentor of Sonic Youth, Swans and Helmet. He was known for his 1982 album The Ascension, which used alternative tunings and volume as compositional elements.
