Glenn Branca United States

Biography

Glenn Branca (born October 6, 1948 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an avant-garde composer and guitarist. 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. He moved to New York in 1976. His first encounter with the NYC music scene was with the N.Dodo Band whom he observed many times at their rehearsal space- Phil Demise's Gegenschein Vaudeville Placenter.

Popular Songs

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  First Movement

  Symphony No. 5: Describing Planes of an Expanding Hypersphere

  130 BPM
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  Third Movement

  Symphony No. 5: Describing Planes of an Expanding Hypersphere

  87 BPM
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  Sixth Movement

  Symphony No. 5: Describing Planes of an Expanding Hypersphere

  76 BPM
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  Second Movement

  Symphony No. 5: Describing Planes of an Expanding Hypersphere

  85 BPM
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  Fifth Movement, Part I

  Symphony No. 5: Describing Planes of an Expanding Hypersphere

  158 BPM

Discography

The Ascension: The Sequel

2010

Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses

2007

Symphony No. 5: Describing Planes of an Expanding Hypersphere

1996

The World Upside Down

1994

Symphony No. 2: The Peak of the Sacred

1992

Symphony No. 6: Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven

1989

Symphony No. 1: Tonal Plexus

1983

Symphony No. 3: Gloria

1983

The Ascension

1981

Lesson No. 1

1980