Performer
Glenn Branca
Style
Classical
avant-garde
Experimental rock
noise rock
Drone
composer
modern classical
no wave
contemporary classical
totalism
Country
United States
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- Listeners: 1
Performer description
Glenn Branca 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.