Biography

Glenn Branca was one of the first and most significant artists to incorporate contemporary classical music concepts--such as minimalism and microtonality--into a rock context. A key figure in New York City's downtown scene of the early 1980s, Branca's droning pieces for guitar orchestras had a formative impact on numerous young bands of the era, especially Sonic Youth, whose Lee Renaldo and Thurston Moore often performed in Branca's ensembles. Branca continued to compose new material into the 21st century, and his seminal no-wave band, the Theoretical Girls, was given the reissue treatment in 2002 on the Acute label.

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Discography

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• Selections from the Symphonies (Works for Electric Guitar)

  Atavistic Records

  1996

• Glenn Branca: Symphony No. 5 "Describing Planes of an Expanding Hypersphere"

  Atavistic Records

  1996

• Glenn Branca: Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses

  Atavistic Records

  1996

• Symphony No. 9 "L'Eve Future"

  Point

  1995

• Glenn Branca: Symphony Nos. 8 & 10 "The Mysteries"

  Atavistic Records

  1994

• Les Honneurs du Pied

  New Tone

  1994

• The World Upside Down

  Atavistic Records

  1992

• Symphony No. 6 (Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven)

  Atavistic Records

  1989

• Music for Peter Greenaway's Film "The Belly of an Architect" (1987)

  Crepuscule

  1987

• Glenn Branca: Symphony No. 3 "Gloria"

  Atavistic Records

  1983

• Glenn Branca: Symphony No. 1 "Tonal Plexus"

  ROIR

  1983

• Who You Staring At?

  Giorno Poetry Systems

  1982

• The Ascension

  Acute

  1981

• Lesson No. 1

  Robi Droli

  1980