DISCOGRAPHY:
Songs `77-79
Lesson #1
The Ascension
Music for the Dance 'Bad Smells'
Symphony No.1 (Tonal Plexus)
Symphony No.2 (The Peak of the Sacred)
Symphony No.3 (Gloria)
Symphony No.5 (Describing Planes of an Expanding Hypersphere)
Symphony No.6 (Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven)
Symphony No.9 (L'eve Future)
Symphonies No.8 & 10 (The Mysteries)
The World Upside Down
The Belly of an Architect (soundtrack)
Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses
Glenn Branca was born on October 6th 1948 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He started to play guitar in his mid-teens, and studied theatre in the early 70's at Emerson College, Boston. In 1975 he co-founded the 'experimental' theatre group 'Bastard Theater', which produced two shows before Branca moved to New York. Here he played in two bands, 'Theoretical Girls' and 'The Static' between 1977 and 1979.
The 80's saw Branca begin to compose works for small guitar ensembles, which led on to his Symphonies, written for guitar orchestras and percussion (as well as making use of several very modified electric guitars). It is probably for these that he is most well known. Members of Swans, Sonic Youth and Helmet are amongst the many who performed with him on these works.
Symphony 7 saw Branca writing for a conventional orchestra, and he has also written choral pieces and a film sountrack. Symphony 13, a work for 100 guitars, has been performed several times, and Symphony 14 has been unleashed on the world by a quartet including Branca and his wife, Regina Bloor.
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Thesis is the second release of Impulsive art, yet the first compilation album. -Deeply dedicated to the experimental – electronic scene brings you a brilliant and unique collection of sound-works by some of the best artists of the scene
Thesis features sound compositions by Andrey Kiritchenko , Mad EP, Keef Baker, Larvae, Spyweirdos, Moogulator, Atmogat, Tapage, Mobthrow, IP Neva, Abstractive Noise and Nole Plastique
Our song 'Yellow Suit' is on the first FRIEND VOTE Indie Top 100 Chart on this week. Maybe our friends can help us get no 1 for Monday. Vote for AMYCANBE at http://www.myspace.com/indietop100 Until again, all the best, Amycanbe
Yes!!! We are in PEACE, compilation for Amnesty International out next January, along with other great names. See our blog section for infos. Cheers!!
featuring kayoko masuda (voice), andreas geyer (bass clarinet) and others total playing time: 73 minutes comes as a factory-made cd with eight-page booklet
Abstractive Noise "Mind Corrupter" EP net-release (cc) [IAd001]
Abstractive Noise, an experimental / music project of Panagiotis Pagonis, offers Impulsive Art the debut release of the new creative common net-releases [IAd001] series.
Experimenting with algorithmic composition and mathematic probabilities, Mind Corrupter build up an extraordinary glitchy, "random", bizarre, broken rhythmical complexity.
"...it’s like Kid Strange and Urban Blitz from the Doctors of Madness at
their most morose played Overhang Party, or a mogadon’d Peter Hammill
jamming with Van Der Graaf’s Graham Smith. Elsewhere, the singular
desolation is most reminiscent of the most down down moments of Nico’s
THE MARBLE INDEX or even of Jesse Colin Young’s The Youngbloods at
their most mercurial. But the Scrapes are still so original their music
ultimately don’t sound like nobody but themselves." Julian Cope
TODOUNO es un proyecto de rock que incluye personas especiales. Algunos fragmentos del documental LIBRE ya se pueden ver en:/TODOUNO is a rock project that includes people with learning disabilities. You can watch some LIBRE documentary fragments at: www.myspace.com/todouno Encontranos en Facebook. Apoyá a TODOUNO/Find us in Facebook. Support TODOUNO.
TODOUNO es un proyecto de rock que incluye personas especiales. Algunos fragmentos del documental LIBRE ya se pueden ver en:/TODOUNO is a rock project that includes people with learning disabilities. You can watch some LIBRE documentary fragments at: www.myspace.com/todouno Encontranos en Facebook. Apoyá a TODOUNO/Find us in Facebook. Support TODOUNO.
Hiya. :) It's NuM again with a new creation... The track's called Skeptical and recreates the reflexions of many in regard to religions nowadays. Please listen and enjoy, and if you have some time tell me what do you think about it. Comments are greatly appreciated.
Frogwomen’s last album is just water under the bridge and only the disrespectful de large could encourage him to create a new one… it is a one-song record which symbolically lasts 66. 6 minutes.
Satan worshipping and overused topic in pop music is just the straw that allowed the struggle between the two artists to begin: a patchwork of microsongs in which each one of them tries to annihilate the other’s style, a record that ranges between love ditties, doom-noise cants, and irreverent & wild tarantellas (ehm.... maybe i’m overstating now). .
