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Glenn Branca

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Glenn Branca (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1948 - May 13, 2018) was an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. Branca received a 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Branca studied theater at Emerson College in Boston in the early 1970s. While there, he began experimenting with sound as the founder of an experimental theater group called Bastard Theater.

Releases · 4

RatingYearTitlePlays
3.97/518k ratings 1981 The Ascension
Lesson No. 1
Songs '77-'79
Symphony No. 1 (Tonal Plexus)