Glenn Branca
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American composer and guitarist (1948-2018)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1948
- Died
- 2018
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Symphony no. 5
- Symphony no. 2
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1948-10-06
- Active to
- 2018-05-13
Discography
- Lesson No. 11980
- The Ascension1981
- Who You Staring At?1982
- Symphony No. 6: Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven1989
- Symphony Nos. 8 & 10: The Mysteries1994
- The World Upside Down1994
- Symphony No. 9: L'eve future1995
- Symphony No. 5: Describing Planes of an Expanding Hypersphere1996
- Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses2007
- The Ascension: The Sequel2010
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 115,634
- Total plays
- 1,300,781
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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. <
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gilbert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Harrisburg
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- luthier
- Educated at
- York College of Pennsylvania
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- sound art
- Movement
- avant-garde
- Instrument
- prepared guitar
- Official website
- glennbranca.com
- Image
- Glenn Branca (cropped).jpg
- Residence
- London
Show 11 more facts
- date of birth
- 1948-10-06
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- date of death
- 2018-05-13
- start of work period
- 1967-00-00
- end of work period
- 2018-05-13
- cause of death
- laryngeal cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Commons category
- Glenn Branca
- floruit
- 1986-01-01
- described at URL
- findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/agents/people/5047
Sources (6)
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