Glenn Branca

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.

Influenced by: John Cage, Alvin Lucier, La Monte Young, Merzbow

Active:

1970s-2018

Scene:

NYC downtown experimental

Side projects

• Bastard Theater

• LITFRANKSat, Aug 15
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• The Renaissance OrchestraSun, Aug 16
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• The FrayFri, Aug 14
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• BeckSat, Sep 26
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• SOFTCULTSun, Sep 20
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• Hans WilliamsSat, Aug 8
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• Kurt Vile & the ViolatorsTue, Nov 24
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• PliniFri, Oct 16
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