Glenn Branca

American composer and guitarist

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. Branca received a 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.

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Works

The Long LineThe Long Line
  • Bad Smells
  • Carbon Monoxide
  • Chant
  • Cold Thing (La belle dame sans merci)
  • Dissonance
  • Don't Let Me Stop You
  • Drive
  • Fifth Movement
  • Fifth Movement, Part I
  • Fifth Movement, Part II
  • Fifth Movement, Part III
  • Fifth Movement: In the Late 20th Century the Impossible Becomes Possible
  • First Movement
  • First Movement (The Temple of Venus, Part I)
  • First Movement: Slow Mass
  • Fourth Movement
  • Fourth Movement: Sacred Field
  • Freeform
  • Fuck Yourself
  • German Expressionism
  • Glazened Idols
  • Harmonic Series Chords
  • Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses
  • Jill
  • Les Honneurs du pied
  • Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar
  • Lesson No. 3 (Tribute to Steve Reich)
  • Lesson No. 4
  • Lost Chords
  • March
  • Movement Within
  • My Relationship
  • Quadratonic
  • Second Movement
  • Second Movement (The Temple of Venus, Part II)
  • Second Movement: Radioactive Poltergeist Kitchen 1955
  • Seventh Movement (Polyhymnia)
  • Sixth Movement
  • Sixth Movement (Fluid Density)
  • Symphony No. 10
  • Symphony No. 10: I. The Final Problem
  • Symphony No. 10: II. The Horror
  • Symphony No. 13 (Hallucination City) For 100 Guitars
  • Symphony No. 1: Tonal Plexus
  • Symphony No. 2
  • Symphony No. 3
  • Symphony No. 5
  • Symphony No. 7
  • Symphony No. 7: I. Shivering Air
  • Symphony No. 7: II. FreeForm
  • Symphony No. 7: III. Harmonic Series Chords
  • Symphony No. 7: IV. Old School
  • Symphony No. 7: V. Shaking Light
  • Symphony No. 8
  • Symphony No. 8: I. The Passion
  • Symphony No. 8: II. Spiritual Anarchy
  • Symphony No. 9: L'eve future
  • Symphony no. 1 "Tonal Plexus": First Movement
  • Symphony no. 1 "Tonal Plexus": Fourth Movement
  • Symphony no. 1 "Tonal Plexus": Second Movement
  • Symphony no. 1 "Tonal Plexus": Third Movement
  • Symphony no. 6 "Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven"
  • Symphony no. 6 "Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven": Fifth Movement
  • Symphony no. 6 "Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven": First Movement
  • Symphony no. 6 "Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven": Fourth Movement
  • Symphony no. 6 "Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven": Second Movement
  • Symphony no. 6 "Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven": Third Movement
  • TV Song
  • The Blood
  • The Smoke (guitar concerto for Arad Evans)
  • The Third Ascension
  • The Tone Row That Ruled the World
  • The World Upside Down
  • Third Movement
  • Third Movement: Melodrama and Nuclear Physics in the Global Theater
  • Twisting in Space
  • Velvets and Pearls
  • Vengeance
  • You
  • You Got Me