Glenn Branca - Symphony 5 (live @ the Kitchen) PART 1

[lesfluorescentes]

this is so intense and i've wished 10,000 times to have been there in such concert... Glenn Branca is really one giant of our time !

[AudioDrainRecordings]

this is great fucking music!!!!

divine!!!

[WetsuitDog]

Beautiful..

[cheesemidget123]

Whenever anyone calls a piece of avant-garde, experimental, or just plain weird music "garbage" for the mere reason that it's "noise", I like to remind them that the same has been said about almost every major composer of the past whose MELODIES are beloved by many in the present. Old definitions of what "music" is inevitably wither away and die. If we can truly say what music actually is, the ONLY constant is that music is simply noise given meaning by context.

[unit731christ]

this reminds me of walking through an abandoned church :]

[timothyc20071]

I saw an interview with this guy. He said that he didn't want to be bothered with a big record label.......funny, after watching this, I'm sure they don't want to bother with him either, LOL. This is not music it is self-indulgent noise. I love music, everything from Mozart to Hip-Hop to Black Metal and country. To say that you hate Mozart but are shaken to the bone by Branca is comparable to saying that you hate Rose's but love the smell of garbage.

[XxXChizelXxX]

What a tool....simply put....GARBAGE

[jodi183]

Bunch of classical music nerds on here who have more knowledge of the theory of music and all of its rules and regulations than of the heart and soul of a powerful piece. If you consider music an art, then why do you define its quality by its complexity? There's good in all types of music, you just have to feel it deep in your soul. And it takes a special, naturally gifted talent to really "feel" music. Which I'm sure you don't have.

[SMGSinc]

@jodi183 I couldn't agree more. Personally, I *feel* this more than a thousand Mozart concertos (of course, I hate Mozart). I think that the people who DON'T like this are completely rational in how they feel about it. Different strokes for different folks. But Branca's work shakes me down to the bones, and that is why I want to share it with as many people as possible. Cheers to everyone -- lovers and haters alike -- who have taken the time to view these videos!

[barryberko]

@SMGSinc it doesn't have to be "either-or" - it's not one kind of music at the expense of the other, it never is... i love both mozart and branca and each speaks to a different aspect of my personality i guess.

[lobotreas]

@SMGSinc I agree that you can't understand this music. You need to FEEL it! And I'm very happy cos i really do/

[theillfrisch]

you can tell by his conduction that he has a vision of the sound in his head.

[ShittiestChannelOnYT]

This is really annoying, it feels like a step backwards towards serialism. I hate it, sorry.

[MrNomadologist]

@ShittiestChannelOnYT

This almost sort of kind of almost definitely sounds nothing like serialism. At all.

[electrikkar]

The word symphony has been given to different musical forms and meanings over the centuries. I think it's appropriate to refer to Glenn's music as symphonic if you view a symphony as a piece of music which is of large scale and written with a seriousness of purpose.

I don't know how Glenn himself would define a symphony, but by the time of the Ascension record he had already moved a great distance beyond the typically defined boundaries of the rock/punk rock band and sound.

[rtwendt]

I understand the debate about the "evolution" of music - I think both sides have valid points, but I think the debate dissolves when you simply consider that, whether you like Branca or not, "symphony" is a poor choice of title and one that probably says more about the composer's self-regard than about the music.

Contemporary "composers" use the names of classical forms even when they don't pay any attention to large-scale form either because they're lazy, or self-indulgent, or confused.

[keeelane]

the term 'symphony' is derived from greek (i think?) and the original meaning is simply "to sound together"

put it like that the title is completely fitting

[TakashiMiike17]

Symphony No. 5 is my favorite! And this is a colossus of a song.

[ChrisHopkins1]

wow

[JuanShaman]

Twenty five centuries of Western music evolution to get here??

[g4thz]

Where should we be?

[saladshootavvv]

You act as if music is on a one way street where it's goal is to grow in complexity (or whatever it is you admire about music of the past). People use sound to portray the human experience at the time of it's conception. Sophistication and expression is what gives it musical merit, not how complex it is.

Music is full of all varieties, colors, ideas, and forms.

There is no linear path in the "evolution" of music.

[jodi183]

@saladshootavvv AMEN!!!

[gtrvln]

@JuanShaman amen brother!!!

[gdfjf1]

wheres thurston?

[NegFi]

Thurston had already left the ensemble by then.

[hawkhandsaw]

Genius!

[bananimalistic]

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awesome

[gayspoon]

fuck