http://www.glennbranca.com/images/video/hallucination_clips.ra
"2001 live performance of Hallucination City: Symphony for 100 Guitars, in New York City. This is a collection of short clips, and the video quality is not that great, but it's still worth seeing."
Any Sonic Youth fans should check this out. He was very influential on them. I've always been fascinated by this piece and have wanted to hear this since I read about it in a Sonic Youth bio many years ago.
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Yeah, I came across Glen Branca while ...
Yeah, I came across Glen Branca while doing a bit of research into art/noise rock last year- Sonic Youth's guitarist was studying under him or something, plus a lot of other noise merchants who have gone on to bigger things can be traced back to Branca- don't ask me for any names, I can't even remember Sonic Youth's guitarist's name at the moment...
re Sonic Youth guitarist's: Thurston ...
re Sonic Youth guitarist's: Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo. I think they've both played with Glenn Branca. When he needs 100 guitar players, he probably calls every guitar player he knows!!
They met playing for him, from memory....
They met playing for him, from memory.
When I was a teenager I used to get ...
When I was a teenager I used to get copies of his albums (vinyl only, from memory) out of the Wellington Public Library. That was at the point when I'd go there after school every day and get something new out.
Whoops, posted to soon. Branca did ...
Whoops, posted to soon. Branca did some pretty amazing things that, rather than being tuned to the even tempered scale, followed the harmonic series. Amazing shimmering effects.
I think I'll head down to the Welly ...
I think I'll head down to the Welly library and have a look for some Glenn Branca!! I've read lots more about him than I've heard!
Have you ever heard the Sonic Youth ...
Have you ever heard the Sonic Youth album, Sonic Death? It's a live recording from about 1981 I think. It's a very influential album on me. They were at their most atonal, experimental and noisy not to mention just learning how to play instruments.
I used to have it and am dying to find it now.