Glenn Branca died

On May 13, at the age of 69, the American guitarist and composer Glenn Branca died.

It is reported by Billboard .

Glenn Branca was born in 1948 in Harrisberg (Pennsylvania), studied at college in a nearby city of York, then at the Theater Department of the Emerson College in Boston, where in 1975 he created the experimental theater The Bastard Theater .

In the late 1970s in New York, he founded the Nou-Weive group Theoretical Girls , played the Guitar Trio Rice Chatem. In 1980, Glenn Branca released the first album under his own name, “Lesson No. 1 ” , in the compositions of which minimalist structures were combined with the aesthetics of punk rock.

In 1981, the first works for guitar ensembles appeared - “The Ascension” and “Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses” , followed by symphonies - monotonous noise works for electric guitars and percussion. In the performance of Symphony Glenna Branca at different times, Terston Moore and Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth , Page Hamilton from Helmet and musicians of the Swans group took part at different times.

In the symphony No. 3 (1983), the composer first used the technique of “harmonic series”, which he considered the basis of all the music. To implement his ideas, Glenn Branca constructed experimental power tools, including, as he called them, “harmonic guitars”.

Symphony No. 7 “Graz” (1989) became the first written for the full composition of the symphony orchestra. Also, among the composer’s work, Symphony No. 13 for one hundred electrihtars (2001), Symphony No. 14 “Harmonic series” (2008) and Symphony No. 16 “Orgasm” - the second essay of Glenn Branchi for a hundred electrihta, which was premiered in the city of music in Paris in 2015.