im not gonna try and say anything pretentious, this sounds pretty bad, but just watching the guy makes it seem like something that he puts a lot of effort into and its actually pretty cool
People can criticize the performance (even though it's exactly what it's supposed to be), but anyone who has no qualms with dismissing this guy's entire body of work based on a 2 minute spur of the moment improv and absolutely no knowledge of anything else he's done is clearly an idiot.
Look, you can criticize this all that you want but don't say "I can do this". Because, even though it lacks melody, composition, hell even music, it's not that easy to make avant-garde guitars sound good. Especially not in this case, this is definitely the most violent and wildest improvisation I have ever seen.
And I have tried. My god, have I tried. I couldn't do it even half as good as Branca does it.
The is very different from what Hendrix did so the comparison isn't really there. I play a lot of noise myself and I couldn't get the same sounds out of my guitar as effectively and simply as Branca does here, regardless of how loudly or violently I played.
Art is only art if it has something to express. THis is just poopoo. But loving noise as I do, interesting poopoo. Like examining a recent shit and thinking "hmmm I don't remember eating that! lets take another look!"
"Music, for me, is neither something that I create, nor a form of self-expression. All kinds of sounds exist everywhere around us, and my performances solely consist of picking up these sounds, like a radio tuner, and playing them so that people can hear them."
@AnaloguePostcard Man, this is not the only way to be expressive and emotive with sound. All music conveys feeling -- not just this stuff. But, with banging on a guitar, how do you express sad emotion, or angry emotion? How do you tell the difference, if it all sounds the same? You can't.
You clearly fail to grasp the entire gist of no wave. It's not a question about being able to play the songs. The songs are kinda a non-entitty for these bands. Expression and experimentation are what they went for. Remember, this scene (especially Glenn, DNA, and Rhys Chatham) is the inspiration for Sonic Youth and the Flying Luttenbachers.
Actually, many people DO do this - every day, in their living rooms. But only a select few can get hipsters to pay money to see it live. It takes connections and a head for business. That's basically what the pop music scene boils down to nowadays, whether you're Glenn Branca or Lady Gag Gag. (and this is pop music, not art music - for that see Bang on a Can). Same now as in 1978.
I...fail to see how this pop music, aside from the fact that no wave is a subgenre of punk. Now if we were talking about modern art punk, like say the Yeah Yeah Yeahs or Black Dice I can see as pop, since they have more respect for traditional pop structures, but this is....certainly not paying any respect to pop structure
That's just because you've never seen someone who didn't mind it sounding like that. If you run a guitar through, say, a digital effects processor, increasing the gain and volume using the pedal as much as possible, and then run it through an amp with built-in distortion, it'll just feed back no matter what you do, which is what he's doing.
Trust me, they really can´t. I´ve heard a lot of idiotic guitar players, and no matter how wild I try to get them, they sound really, really lame. But I guess, anyone who has more or less the human anatomy, like him, and a consciousness, theoretically, should be able to do that, does that make it any less cool?
File this with Einsturzende Neubauten as music that is conceptually cool but not entirely listenable. The audience seems to dig it, though, and it has to say something about our society that a person could unleash like this, and that a noise like a thousand fighter planes crashing into each other could be considered musical. On the other hand it's just as primal as smashing stuff. Branca is defining the edge of what could be considered musical expression, like John Cage with distortion.
you guys should keep in mind this was early in his evolution. the album which contains this video is brilliantly composed. i just see this for what it is, a performance art piece. it's a barely contained explosion of energy that is ebbing and flowing, manifested through his guitar. i don't think he actually meant for this piece to be seen as a composition.
like criswhicharewings i love expirmental but what the hell? i mean come on, i have listened to other works of glenn branca and its impressive but this is just stupid. look at a guy like derek bailey. he has so much control on his instrument and he purely improvising like this guy. but it has so more control then this. i mean all he is do is jumping around and hitting a guitar. the passion is beautiful and great but you cant just have passion. you need some skill not just hitting random areas
I don't mind the avant-garde, but what bothers me about this is that there's no thought to what he's doing. He's not thinking about here his hands are on the fretboard, or the way he's hitting the strings. It's just emotion--and don't get me wrong--emotion plays a huge part in music, but I think there has to be some sort of cerebral intent.
That's my own observation, not saying it's the truth. I'm up for any discussion on the matter.
I would say that it's not «just» emotion, but a qualified and particular emotion and energy, mediated by culture (he's holding and «playing» an eletric guitar, and performing in front of an audience; perhaps «demolishing» the established).
I understand your point, but you can surely see that this is just pure expression....we know that Glenn Branca can compose and play guitar amazingly well, so what's the problem with him having a burst of... aggression, I suppose, and playing the guitar in this way?
And how do you know he's not thinking about where to put his hands....I'm sure he must have willed them to move somehow.
Well i'm not saying he doesn't know he's moving his hands, and doesn't know HOW he's moving him, but when playing notes/chords on a guitar, obviously it takes intent to decide where on the fretboard you're putting your hands to play which notes. But like you said, it's pure expression and I don't think, until later on in the video, that there's any thought to which notes/chords he's playing at all.
i must say i do enjoy the debates and discussion this kind of avant-garde music raises; they are very very interesting sometimes... and that is highly valuable i think...
nice movie, have to listen to some branca now (I've borrow a friends some records but still didn't listen to it) thx 4 sharing, make me think about Otomo Yoshide dont you ?
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Wow, what the fuck did I just listen to? I can make this same shit on my guitar and amp right now while blindfolded. Is this real music? Wow, how can you people sit through this shit?
about noise improv, maybe the most direct, raw improvisation style. It's like Yamatsuka Eye screaming, it's noise, it's direct. It often seams hard to get at the beggining, but this kind of style is really great, what music could be more honnest than this one ? Harry Partch said "The creative man shows himself naked, the more creative he is, the more naked he appears", here branca is nude on stage ;)
I understand you're point but what he does here is not himself becouse he doesn't intend anything it just comes out the way it does. (Cage whould be happy:) ) My concept is that the musician should be in controll of what he's doing and that really makes a diffrence I like Coltrane and he seem to really play what he want to play not just what comes out of his horns, Coltrane even in 1965-67 is pretty much recogniseable while this solo could have been played by anyone, ofcourse I could be wrong
I know what u mean,it's about putting some hasard in lusic. But know that branca controls more than u'd think,not perfectly but hes got an idea it's spontaneous the results isnt fully controled but that's what he wants. If I hit a keyboard, i'll get notes, dont know which ones exactly but I Know I'll get a higher or lower (depending on where i hit) noisy piano sounds. On a guitar you play notes that are laid on the neck, on a sax I dunno, is it like singing, you get the sounds that u want ?
and when you hit as you said random notes on a piano does that express you? i have no problem with this but there are two thing that make me think this is the first one if this music expresses anything at all
and the second is, is it hard to understand what is here to understand? he would've got the same result hitting bricks with a hammer and nobody would've payed any attention to him
But...... you didnt make it, he did. 30 years ago. This was true punk. We listen to artistic music. Art is resistance. You listen to easy music apparently.
You just think anything that sounds "unique" is "artistic". And the reason nobody did that before Glenn was because nobody in their right mind would ever believe that people would enjoy the ear raping sounds of strumming random shit on a guitar with heavy distortion and feedback. Seriously, it doesn't take ANY talent to play that at all. Just grab a guitar, put distortion on high, get close to your amp for feedback and speed strum anything in random successions and timings.
You're right about everything you said in your last post. You do understand my concept of what art is. Unique is not the word I would use though. Think abrasive to the contemporary mainstream and experimental.
whether you think it takes talent or not, this evokes a certain emotion. you may not like it, but it displays a general concept, a feeling that is unique compared to most music.
ppl r scared of the unknown. if something doesn't look or sound like what we've heard our whole lives we brush it off as stupid or bad...take a chance in life ppl u might actually learn something and expand yr mind
This was surely cutting edge at the time, but now I'd be happy to put money on there being a lot more creative scope in samplers, software and computers...
It's all inspirational stuff none-the-less :o)
Arguably Being as difficult to play noise like that as to play clean chords and melodies ;op
why am i marked down for speaking my opinion? everybody in my school listens to rap and i hate it because it dosent take any talent. i dont see a problem here...
the problem is you refuse to acknowledge that it takes talent. i can't make a rap track worth listening to, i'll tell you that. the majority of them are skilled performers.
it's fine to not like it. it's fine to say why you don't like it. but to assume that just because you don't enjoy it means that they are talentless hacks is foolish.
i understand that it could be for someone like me to rap and have it sound good, but the rappers dont really do any more then that. they(most of them) have producers to make tracks for them and they just rap to it... i guess im just angry. lol
oh dont get me wrong, i respect aesop rock and older rap like that. i just used lil wayne because all he sings about is sex and clubs and stuff like that.... imean how long does it take to write stuff like that.
That's stupid as fuck to say, To say that you hate rap because you don't like lil wayne is like saying you don't like rock because of the Jonas Brothers.
im not saying i hate rap im saying that it has gotten stupid over time, and its starting to get annoying because everyone in my school likes gay music
There is still a lot of intelligent hip hop around today and people with shit taste is something you'll have to get used to, but don't worry, when people finish school they usually get much better taste. Also your name sort of suggests that you do hate rap.
Sexual orientation has nothing to do with taste in music, or anything else!! =/ And Rap isn´t just one artist!....music is about researching, and there´s always good artists in all genres (in my opinion) ;)
What you have to do is film it with a camera really close to the audio source so that it clips horribly, then upload it to youtube so that it gets compressed to hell. Hope this helps.
seriously, he just had the best hair in new york at the time. that's why he wasn't on the no new york compilation. that's why they didn't use the word "wave". look at arto, look at eno. what "wave"? glenn, you shot yourself in the hair.
Si os gusta la música experimental y el avant garde, acabo de ver en youtube un vídeo que se sale de bueno es de la banda Josh&Latex - FROG RAIN !!!!!!!
you see i can dig this just because i dont need for anyone to have a reason to do anything. its what punk was supposed to sound like. it doesnt matter if you call it art or just plain noise, the fact is, that we cant handle neither. but we sure as hell can feel it
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Woa! Chill, dude! From your comments, I doubt you were even born when Hendrix performed. I lived and was performing during the Beatles, Stones and the master, Hendrix years so don't speak for me. I have been performing on a guitar since 1960...how about you? Anyone can act like he's been attacked by killer bees on speed with a guitar. No vision, and certainly no talent, that I saw. BTW, do you need to use the "f bomb" to express yourself? That's sad.
so basically your just angry because you've been playing guitar for years, and glenn branca has surpassed you in fame and noteriety? so your solution is to get in youtube and pathetically comment on how childish his playing is. genn branca is not completely ignorant when it comes to music. he writes his own pieces... so he knows music theory...
To Bach, the music you enjoy would have been talentless noise. While this video is hardly musical persay, it is music. It's performance art. You shouldn't judge solely on your reception (though that's an integral part of review) but also based on how well the artist communicated his or her message.
You just made the most brilliant response to my comment. Thank you for your insightfulness. I learned from you. I would respectfully disagree with your comment about Bach thinking the music I enjoy as "talentless noise." I love Bach's music and believe he would sit and respect what I do, especially on acoustic guitar. I honor him and am not worthy to be in the same room with the master, Bach. Mr. Branca does not stir my soul; he annoys me. That's the difference, I believe.
It is up to you what this is. Hendrix's takes more dexterity to perform then say Branca but ultimately music is NOT about dexterity is it? its about timbres and rhythms. its theory 101. to some (myself) this is good music as was Hendrix. But Branca was trying to display something not just in his music but in his body language too. and we all know rock music is also about body language. this was an art piece and was performed in an art gallery. artsy fartsy? absolutely. worthless? absolutely not.
I can see why the work of Branca or other's who deal with noise as a medium might be frustrating or challenging to most people. In much a similar way rock music and psychedelia were threatening to much of American culture. Yet to others it was revolutionary, mindopening, and changed the way they lived. To me listening to this kind of noise is a zen experience, almost like standing in the calm of a storm. I'm not asking you to approve of noise, just realize that it can be meaningful and smart.
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Wow now there's some talent! He sure wasted $15 on his one and only elementary guitar instruction book. This is an insult to Hendrix, Clapton, Beck and guitarists who are actually masters of their craft unlike this idiot. Or perhaps I'm missing the point...Don't be like H, C and B!
don't be so fucking precious. you'd have been one of the people acting all indignant at Hendrix's antics when he first appeared. anyway the production of sound via an instrument is easy (relatively) - the difficult part is the conception and the courage to put your vision out there. witness the grass roots dominance of cover bands rather than original musicians. you may not like Branca but he's out there and he's trying things which influence more conventional artists.
WARNING!!!!!! DO NOT READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! im glenn brancas guitar, i was crushed by a falling roof that killed a 200 guitar orchestra (200 guitars playing the same note caused the supports to collapse), if you dont repost this on 10 other youtubes i will come into your house every night and replace all of your cds with guitar trio recordings.
This is beautiful. Music is what ever you want it to be. What ever allows you to express your emotions. Our modern idea of what a song is made of is fairly new. A song can be what ever you want it to be. Whether you like noises that relate in consonant patterns that bring peace or noises that are dissonant by nature and bring upheaval and disturbances to your existence. There is a time and place for everything to fit into.
I enjoy the way this looks more than how it sounds. Overall, it's pretty fucking awesome.
Atombombmother 2 days ago
Pete Townshend on a bad, bad day.......
voxsoundpro 1 week ago
esse tal de glenn branca acha q toca guitarra, mas se eu raspar um gillette na guitarra vai fazer o mesmo som kkkkkkk
itunanswered123 2 weeks ago
kkkkk tah vendo oq acontece quando bebe e vai tocar?
itunanswered123 2 weeks ago
kkkkkkkk se observarem direito ele num tem cordenaçao nenhuma na mao direita hushaushaushausha
itunanswered123 2 weeks ago
ele tah tocando guitarra ou tah destruindo ela?
itunanswered123 2 weeks ago
he just asshole
Tusha69 1 month ago
glenn branca
Tusha69 1 month ago
And that, kids, is how you play the guitar.
ThirdReichnRoll 1 month ago
im not gonna try and say anything pretentious, this sounds pretty bad, but just watching the guy makes it seem like something that he puts a lot of effort into and its actually pretty cool
AdmiralBarackbar 2 months ago
People can criticize the performance (even though it's exactly what it's supposed to be), but anyone who has no qualms with dismissing this guy's entire body of work based on a 2 minute spur of the moment improv and absolutely no knowledge of anything else he's done is clearly an idiot.
kingboobs20 2 months ago
And ten years later to the day, I was born.
VSUBlazer 2 months ago
Look, you can criticize this all that you want but don't say "I can do this". Because, even though it lacks melody, composition, hell even music, it's not that easy to make avant-garde guitars sound good. Especially not in this case, this is definitely the most violent and wildest improvisation I have ever seen.
And I have tried. My god, have I tried. I couldn't do it even half as good as Branca does it.
Osthropek 2 months ago 2
life is beautiful
MawoRinnGun 2 months ago
Anybody's has tabs?
Reint25 3 months ago 5
The is very different from what Hendrix did so the comparison isn't really there. I play a lot of noise myself and I couldn't get the same sounds out of my guitar as effectively and simply as Branca does here, regardless of how loudly or violently I played.
hunterrup 3 months ago
So many feelings at the same time.
maxwellcale 4 months ago
garbage
86Dville 5 months ago
why would someone dislike this? that guy is fucking pouring his heart out through those strings
PnxNdd420 6 months ago
ahhhh the neighbors!!!!
Cesarpena 6 months ago
ammazza lammerda...
Abulafia1982 8 months ago
I fuckin love this. Although Branca's compositions aren't my favorite I love the explosion of sound in his solo.
MrMuddyBleach 1 year ago
how is he doing this?
NappyHeadedHorse 1 year ago
air horn at 0:34
chuecco 1 year ago 3
Art is only art if it has something to express. THis is just poopoo. But loving noise as I do, interesting poopoo. Like examining a recent shit and thinking "hmmm I don't remember eating that! lets take another look!"
bumzurvaj 1 year ago
it's ok, only that Hendrix did it before him ! ! !
RingOfRae 1 year ago
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RingOfRae 1 year ago
I love how everyone just got trolled
6663316 1 year ago
I've always wanted to do something like this (with any instrument, guitar preferable). Now I know when I do I wasn't the first.
kingmmm121190 1 year ago
tabs plz...;)
rockadeaz 1 year ago 7
This shit is like Jazz or splatter paint. You make it up as you feel. Rock n Roll...
TheSicilino 1 year ago
FUK THIS IT ISNT MUSIC.
Crouchosarus 1 year ago
@Crouchosarus This is Noise, not music, beyond the music: a sonic expression as music but different
carcinofagus 1 year ago
@carcinofagus According to John Cage noise is music.
kingmmm121190 1 year ago
@Crouchosarus YOUR A FUKIN FOOL
waxanimalparts 1 year ago
@Crouchosarus it's better
MrFuckregistration 1 year ago
violent guitar love making
shinybald36 1 year ago
WOW!
TheSimo182 1 year ago
1978 this rock for the time
the born of NOISE
thx father glenn
oscarjavi 1 year ago
whether you like this or not, you can't deny that Glenn is a fucking bad ass.
oddmanout1792 1 year ago
guitar lessons
AvaAvaBoBava 1 year ago
i can. true story ^________^
SugarOver 1 year ago
Kawabata Makoto said :
"Music, for me, is neither something that I create, nor a form of self-expression. All kinds of sounds exist everywhere around us, and my performances solely consist of picking up these sounds, like a radio tuner, and playing them so that people can hear them."
trojanlol 2 years ago 6
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pdenavagattora 2 years ago
@AnaloguePostcard Man, this is not the only way to be expressive and emotive with sound. All music conveys feeling -- not just this stuff. But, with banging on a guitar, how do you express sad emotion, or angry emotion? How do you tell the difference, if it all sounds the same? You can't.
pdenavagattora 2 years ago
if you think punk is noise....... nowave is punk... "noisified"
70s/80s punk has very little to do with MTV pop-punk, musically
muki123 2 years ago
This is a joke, anybody can do this.
pdenavagattora 2 years ago
You clearly fail to grasp the entire gist of no wave. It's not a question about being able to play the songs. The songs are kinda a non-entitty for these bands. Expression and experimentation are what they went for. Remember, this scene (especially Glenn, DNA, and Rhys Chatham) is the inspiration for Sonic Youth and the Flying Luttenbachers.
michealdark 2 years ago
Actually, many people DO do this - every day, in their living rooms. But only a select few can get hipsters to pay money to see it live. It takes connections and a head for business. That's basically what the pop music scene boils down to nowadays, whether you're Glenn Branca or Lady Gag Gag. (and this is pop music, not art music - for that see Bang on a Can). Same now as in 1978.
rtwendt 2 years ago
I...fail to see how this pop music, aside from the fact that no wave is a subgenre of punk. Now if we were talking about modern art punk, like say the Yeah Yeah Yeahs or Black Dice I can see as pop, since they have more respect for traditional pop structures, but this is....certainly not paying any respect to pop structure
michealdark 2 years ago
obviously you are unaware of his work outside of this video
ancientgreekgodwine 2 years ago
do it. I am excited to see you do this.
ZRN959 2 years ago
The high E string was a little flat... that kinda killed it for me.
scowell 2 years ago 64
haha never seen so many thumbs up for a comment. perfectly done. brilliant.
JimmyVonJim 2 years ago
I got to hand it to the guy. I have never heard a guitar sound like that before.
Monoaux 2 years ago
That's just because you've never seen someone who didn't mind it sounding like that. If you run a guitar through, say, a digital effects processor, increasing the gain and volume using the pedal as much as possible, and then run it through an amp with built-in distortion, it'll just feed back no matter what you do, which is what he's doing.
benningtonc7 2 years ago
It's funny how so many ain't got a CLUE about this gorgeous, angry and thunderous performance! It's amazing as well!
fatimida 2 years ago
I understand that Glenn does a great cover of Anne Murray's CAN I HAVE THIS DANCE, too!
HOUNDDAWG 2 years ago
The horror and the energy is fucking brilliant.
MaxRennExcarnate 2 years ago
this is amazing. haha i love the people who commented saying anyone can do this. They're so right about everything and everyone should be like them.
Skaskafood 2 years ago
if you don't like it then don't say anything, no one wants to hear your fucking opinion anyway. go listen to your nickelback.
JinPanda 2 years ago 3
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That is a pure load of crap. Amazing that anyone would think it is worthy.
richdonn 2 years ago
Well, I don´t think it HAS to be boring to be good art. I love this!
Petfal 2 years ago
This man is an unrated genius. the albums
Lesson #1 and The Ascension are masterpieces.
bokma7 2 years ago
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wtf is this fucking shit???
GeeZeRWoD 2 years ago
It is a guitar performance by Glenn Branca.
Petfal 2 years ago
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but ANYONE can do the same )) shit.
GeeZeRWoD 2 years ago
Trust me, they really can´t. I´ve heard a lot of idiotic guitar players, and no matter how wild I try to get them, they sound really, really lame. But I guess, anyone who has more or less the human anatomy, like him, and a consciousness, theoretically, should be able to do that, does that make it any less cool?
Petfal 2 years ago 3
File this with Einsturzende Neubauten as music that is conceptually cool but not entirely listenable. The audience seems to dig it, though, and it has to say something about our society that a person could unleash like this, and that a noise like a thousand fighter planes crashing into each other could be considered musical. On the other hand it's just as primal as smashing stuff. Branca is defining the edge of what could be considered musical expression, like John Cage with distortion.
stereomorphic 2 years ago
I'm guessing you're talking about Einsturzende Neubauten's early stuff. Their newer/later stuff isn't hard to listen to at all.
crieswhicharewings 2 years ago
True enough. The 1980's material sounds like it could bring a building down.
stereomorphic 2 years ago
John Cage wasn't a big fan of Branca, he found his music to be "oppressive"
fenetremagique 2 years ago 2
ya.... lou reed was the shit. .. metal mahine mucisck all da ways homey.
scarletkills 2 years ago
Anti Solos are all about improvisation.
This was probably the first anti solo ever (although the Who had a song called 'Out In The Street' which had a semi-anti solo)
It just comes to the guitarist. You don't compose it, it happens
ChickenPissInTheRoad 2 years ago
This is the best video on Youtube...
StrayGhost 2 years ago 36
you guys should keep in mind this was early in his evolution. the album which contains this video is brilliantly composed. i just see this for what it is, a performance art piece. it's a barely contained explosion of energy that is ebbing and flowing, manifested through his guitar. i don't think he actually meant for this piece to be seen as a composition.
sonichris 2 years ago 13
like criswhicharewings i love expirmental but what the hell? i mean come on, i have listened to other works of glenn branca and its impressive but this is just stupid. look at a guy like derek bailey. he has so much control on his instrument and he purely improvising like this guy. but it has so more control then this. i mean all he is do is jumping around and hitting a guitar. the passion is beautiful and great but you cant just have passion. you need some skill not just hitting random areas
boogster123321 2 years ago
Passion.
nicolasdurruti 2 years ago
I don't mind the avant-garde, but what bothers me about this is that there's no thought to what he's doing. He's not thinking about here his hands are on the fretboard, or the way he's hitting the strings. It's just emotion--and don't get me wrong--emotion plays a huge part in music, but I think there has to be some sort of cerebral intent.
That's my own observation, not saying it's the truth. I'm up for any discussion on the matter.
crieswhicharewings 2 years ago 3
I agree.
Smaejdah 2 years ago
I would say that it's not «just» emotion, but a qualified and particular emotion and energy, mediated by culture (he's holding and «playing» an eletric guitar, and performing in front of an audience; perhaps «demolishing» the established).
fatimida 2 years ago
Well in that case it's more about the act its self and not about the music.
crieswhicharewings 2 years ago
I understand your point, but you can surely see that this is just pure expression....we know that Glenn Branca can compose and play guitar amazingly well, so what's the problem with him having a burst of... aggression, I suppose, and playing the guitar in this way?
And how do you know he's not thinking about where to put his hands....I'm sure he must have willed them to move somehow.
StrayGhost 2 years ago 3
Well i'm not saying he doesn't know he's moving his hands, and doesn't know HOW he's moving him, but when playing notes/chords on a guitar, obviously it takes intent to decide where on the fretboard you're putting your hands to play which notes. But like you said, it's pure expression and I don't think, until later on in the video, that there's any thought to which notes/chords he's playing at all.
crieswhicharewings 2 years ago 2
exactly
boogster123321 2 years ago
i must say i do enjoy the debates and discussion this kind of avant-garde music raises; they are very very interesting sometimes... and that is highly valuable i think...
fatimida 2 years ago
THI IS THE TEACHER OF..the original!mr.moore was one of his students.great performance THANX!
satyros2 2 years ago
this is beautiful
gayspoon 2 years ago 2
noise at it's finest
angry and screaming
Eddyfilm 2 years ago 3
nice movie, have to listen to some branca now (I've borrow a friends some records but still didn't listen to it) thx 4 sharing, make me think about Otomo Yoshide dont you ?
trojanlol 2 years ago
uhahahah.
rofl
Linuxdefiler 2 years ago
Man Glenn Branca was a genius. Those who don't get it, look up Lesson #1.....at the total opposite end of the spectrum of this song.
juansevo 2 years ago 5
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Wow, what the fuck did I just listen to? I can make this same shit on my guitar and amp right now while blindfolded. Is this real music? Wow, how can you people sit through this shit?
TANSD 2 years ago
Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it's not real music.
BenadrylAnnug 2 years ago 9
If you can understand this please tell us what this is all about
Kemenesfalvi 2 years ago
about noise improv, maybe the most direct, raw improvisation style. It's like Yamatsuka Eye screaming, it's noise, it's direct. It often seams hard to get at the beggining, but this kind of style is really great, what music could be more honnest than this one ? Harry Partch said "The creative man shows himself naked, the more creative he is, the more naked he appears", here branca is nude on stage ;)
trojanlol 2 years ago
I understand you're point but what he does here is not himself becouse he doesn't intend anything it just comes out the way it does. (Cage whould be happy:) ) My concept is that the musician should be in controll of what he's doing and that really makes a diffrence I like Coltrane and he seem to really play what he want to play not just what comes out of his horns, Coltrane even in 1965-67 is pretty much recogniseable while this solo could have been played by anyone, ofcourse I could be wrong
Kemenesfalvi 2 years ago
I know what u mean,it's about putting some hasard in lusic. But know that branca controls more than u'd think,not perfectly but hes got an idea it's spontaneous the results isnt fully controled but that's what he wants. If I hit a keyboard, i'll get notes, dont know which ones exactly but I Know I'll get a higher or lower (depending on where i hit) noisy piano sounds. On a guitar you play notes that are laid on the neck, on a sax I dunno, is it like singing, you get the sounds that u want ?
trojanlol 2 years ago 2
and when you hit as you said random notes on a piano does that express you? i have no problem with this but there are two thing that make me think this is the first one if this music expresses anything at all
and the second is, is it hard to understand what is here to understand? he would've got the same result hitting bricks with a hammer and nobody would've payed any attention to him
Kemenesfalvi 2 years ago
But...... you didnt make it, he did. 30 years ago. This was true punk. We listen to artistic music. Art is resistance. You listen to easy music apparently.
badarsemother3k 2 years ago 2
You just think anything that sounds "unique" is "artistic". And the reason nobody did that before Glenn was because nobody in their right mind would ever believe that people would enjoy the ear raping sounds of strumming random shit on a guitar with heavy distortion and feedback. Seriously, it doesn't take ANY talent to play that at all. Just grab a guitar, put distortion on high, get close to your amp for feedback and speed strum anything in random successions and timings.
TANSD 2 years ago
You're right about everything you said in your last post. You do understand my concept of what art is. Unique is not the word I would use though. Think abrasive to the contemporary mainstream and experimental.
badarsemother3k 2 years ago
That's not just any guitar, that's a Telecaster!
SomeMightEvenDie 2 years ago 3
this is sweet.
Jack458111 2 years ago
whether you think it takes talent or not, this evokes a certain emotion. you may not like it, but it displays a general concept, a feeling that is unique compared to most music.
TRUDYisTheNewThing 2 years ago 6
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you suck, LOL
HordaRural 2 years ago
ppl r scared of the unknown. if something doesn't look or sound like what we've heard our whole lives we brush it off as stupid or bad...take a chance in life ppl u might actually learn something and expand yr mind
SonicYouth5469 3 years ago
This was surely cutting edge at the time, but now I'd be happy to put money on there being a lot more creative scope in samplers, software and computers...
It's all inspirational stuff none-the-less :o)
Arguably Being as difficult to play noise like that as to play clean chords and melodies ;op
TH3541nt 3 years ago
how is it moronic? i dont enjoy today's "rap" music. earlier rap was acceptable but now its just stupid. prime example: lil wayne
AntiRapActivist 3 years ago
why am i marked down for speaking my opinion? everybody in my school listens to rap and i hate it because it dosent take any talent. i dont see a problem here...
AntiRapActivist 3 years ago
the problem is you refuse to acknowledge that it takes talent. i can't make a rap track worth listening to, i'll tell you that. the majority of them are skilled performers.
it's fine to not like it. it's fine to say why you don't like it. but to assume that just because you don't enjoy it means that they are talentless hacks is foolish.
HexagonalSun 3 years ago
i understand that it could be for someone like me to rap and have it sound good, but the rappers dont really do any more then that. they(most of them) have producers to make tracks for them and they just rap to it... i guess im just angry. lol
AntiRapActivist 3 years ago
Listen to Aesop Rock's track Daylight or Alias' Watching Water, AntiRapActivist.
You have a real narrow view if you're mentioning lil wayne.
JamieBarnes11 2 years ago
oh dont get me wrong, i respect aesop rock and older rap like that. i just used lil wayne because all he sings about is sex and clubs and stuff like that.... imean how long does it take to write stuff like that.
AntiRapActivist 2 years ago
That's stupid as fuck to say, To say that you hate rap because you don't like lil wayne is like saying you don't like rock because of the Jonas Brothers.
JamieBarnes11 2 years ago 4
im not saying i hate rap im saying that it has gotten stupid over time, and its starting to get annoying because everyone in my school likes gay music
AntiRapActivist 2 years ago
There is still a lot of intelligent hip hop around today and people with shit taste is something you'll have to get used to, but don't worry, when people finish school they usually get much better taste. Also your name sort of suggests that you do hate rap.
JamieBarnes11 2 years ago 3
i would hope so... lol
i made this account about two years ago and have learned alot, if i could change my user name i would.
AntiRapActivist 2 years ago
Sexual orientation has nothing to do with taste in music, or anything else!! =/ And Rap isn´t just one artist!....music is about researching, and there´s always good artists in all genres (in my opinion) ;)
QWEROTI 2 years ago 3
But I´m not an hip hop fan myself, and definitly think tha today´s hip hop is totaly screwed... old school is better..the late 80s and 90s..
QWEROTI 2 years ago
lil wayne is talented. quiet
thettruest 2 years ago
why doesnt my tele sound like that?
AntiRapActivist 3 years ago
What you have to do is film it with a camera really close to the audio source so that it clips horribly, then upload it to youtube so that it gets compressed to hell. Hope this helps.
Oh by the way, your name is moronic.
SeanithanEgan 3 years ago
that has nothing to do with it Sean...he detunes his guitar...the sounds he gets live are AMAZING
SonicYouth5469 3 years ago
I wasn't bashing the guitarist, I'm bashing youtube's terrible sound quality and the terrible sound quality of the video in general.
SeanithanEgan 3 years ago
look when it was recorded.. you honestly think you can get clear pristine recording sounds in 1978?
str84ever 2 years ago
Yes, you can. Listen to any Steely Dan album.
More importantly though, it's the youtube compression that destroys the sound quality.
SeanithanEgan 2 years ago
Why? Maybe coz you know how to play the guitar
Pericosabio 3 years ago
Amazing. God bless you Glenn Branca
DavidTheGoose 3 years ago
anyone got tab for this?
chrook 3 years ago 19
HAHAHAHA good one
moonandantarctica2 3 years ago 2
There are more feelings in it than in any Eric Clapton solo.
melitoce 3 years ago 8
Goes without saying. But a lot of those classic rock guys are pretty good. Also those modern rock guys. And Fred Frith.
msp94 3 years ago
What an idiot !!
llAkuTsUll 3 years ago
Dad? is that you?
SEANDI777 3 years ago
funking thrash
misterherman 3 years ago
This goes against a lot of what I believe about music.
But it's damn awesome.
Blackasylum3 3 years ago 4
f*cking trash
rostipan 3 years ago
Tele abuse... but awesome.
anyone have a transcription of this? (just kidding...)
bardobound 3 years ago
seriously, he just had the best hair in new york at the time. that's why he wasn't on the no new york compilation. that's why they didn't use the word "wave". look at arto, look at eno. what "wave"? glenn, you shot yourself in the hair.
andfalling 3 years ago
I feel it in my head
And I'd rather have shards of glass in my ass
PaperthinHymn 3 years ago
wow, i just got done reading about his early no wave performances. they really where intense.
hayami05 3 years ago
Is this a Django cover?
gbarrettomates 3 years ago 9
Funniest guitar video comment... ever.
Busterdawg4400 3 years ago
Live free, thrash hard!
googlyminotaur 3 years ago
Buenísimo este tema de Branca...Genial!!!
Si os gusta la música experimental y el avant garde, acabo de ver en youtube un vídeo que se sale de bueno es de la banda Josh&Latex - FROG RAIN !!!!!!!
Olguka 3 years ago
Badass!
leecop 3 years ago
you see i can dig this just because i dont need for anyone to have a reason to do anything. its what punk was supposed to sound like. it doesnt matter if you call it art or just plain noise, the fact is, that we cant handle neither. but we sure as hell can feel it
51221119 3 years ago 6
kudos
hunckejunkie 3 years ago
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Woa! Chill, dude! From your comments, I doubt you were even born when Hendrix performed. I lived and was performing during the Beatles, Stones and the master, Hendrix years so don't speak for me. I have been performing on a guitar since 1960...how about you? Anyone can act like he's been attacked by killer bees on speed with a guitar. No vision, and certainly no talent, that I saw. BTW, do you need to use the "f bomb" to express yourself? That's sad.
TeleRocker1 3 years ago
so basically your just angry because you've been playing guitar for years, and glenn branca has surpassed you in fame and noteriety? so your solution is to get in youtube and pathetically comment on how childish his playing is. genn branca is not completely ignorant when it comes to music. he writes his own pieces... so he knows music theory...
glitchesandglitter 3 years ago 5
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Um, I have never heard of Glenn Branc. Someone sent me his video as a joke, with all due respect.
TeleRocker1 3 years ago
To Bach, the music you enjoy would have been talentless noise. While this video is hardly musical persay, it is music. It's performance art. You shouldn't judge solely on your reception (though that's an integral part of review) but also based on how well the artist communicated his or her message.
goombahkips 3 years ago 6
goombahkips,
You just made the most brilliant response to my comment. Thank you for your insightfulness. I learned from you. I would respectfully disagree with your comment about Bach thinking the music I enjoy as "talentless noise." I love Bach's music and believe he would sit and respect what I do, especially on acoustic guitar. I honor him and am not worthy to be in the same room with the master, Bach. Mr. Branca does not stir my soul; he annoys me. That's the difference, I believe.
TeleRocker1 3 years ago
Agreed, Goombah. Even the earliest Rock'n'Roll would make Bach throw up.
AlbertMondback 3 years ago
It is up to you what this is. Hendrix's takes more dexterity to perform then say Branca but ultimately music is NOT about dexterity is it? its about timbres and rhythms. its theory 101. to some (myself) this is good music as was Hendrix. But Branca was trying to display something not just in his music but in his body language too. and we all know rock music is also about body language. this was an art piece and was performed in an art gallery. artsy fartsy? absolutely. worthless? absolutely not.
aphexpusher 3 years ago 4
I can see why the work of Branca or other's who deal with noise as a medium might be frustrating or challenging to most people. In much a similar way rock music and psychedelia were threatening to much of American culture. Yet to others it was revolutionary, mindopening, and changed the way they lived. To me listening to this kind of noise is a zen experience, almost like standing in the calm of a storm. I'm not asking you to approve of noise, just realize that it can be meaningful and smart.
iamaswamp 3 years ago 8
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Wow now there's some talent! He sure wasted $15 on his one and only elementary guitar instruction book. This is an insult to Hendrix, Clapton, Beck and guitarists who are actually masters of their craft unlike this idiot. Or perhaps I'm missing the point...Don't be like H, C and B!
TeleRocker1 3 years ago
Way to show off your ignorance. He also organized a guitar orchestra.
Entidus 3 years ago
don't be so fucking precious. you'd have been one of the people acting all indignant at Hendrix's antics when he first appeared. anyway the production of sound via an instrument is easy (relatively) - the difficult part is the conception and the courage to put your vision out there. witness the grass roots dominance of cover bands rather than original musicians. you may not like Branca but he's out there and he's trying things which influence more conventional artists.
fishingrhod 3 years ago 3
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WARNING!!!!!! DO NOT READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! im glenn brancas guitar, i was crushed by a falling roof that killed a 200 guitar orchestra (200 guitars playing the same note caused the supports to collapse), if you dont repost this on 10 other youtubes i will come into your house every night and replace all of your cds with guitar trio recordings.
MrPharmacist32 3 years ago
i like eggs and potatoes
CCDProductions 3 years ago
i wish i could do this. like a fuckin whirlwind man.
czeal 3 years ago 3
he's so conservative LOL
mrkvamaster 3 years ago
Oh hell yeah, do it Glenn!
AnarchoMojo 3 years ago
wow ! :)
steveN111333 3 years ago
branca is a better performer
hunckejunkie 3 years ago
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hmm so what emotion is he expressing, is it love, anguish, or seizure?
evanh91 3 years ago
maybe frustration over the inevitable existance of people like you?
gharju 3 years ago 17
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
the best answer
catwoooman 3 years ago 5
There is only one emotion: gay. And it isn't worthy of musical expression.
boraxthedecapitator 3 years ago
Esto es la mera neta!!!
sonicland 3 years ago
So far away we wait for the day,
For the lights all so wasted and gone;
We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days-
Through the fire and the flames we carry on!
crankdatlulz 3 years ago
this fucking rocks.
brw0044 3 years ago 2
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There's good noise, and there's this.
This sucks.
somegy1217 3 years ago
This is beautiful. Music is what ever you want it to be. What ever allows you to express your emotions. Our modern idea of what a song is made of is fairly new. A song can be what ever you want it to be. Whether you like noises that relate in consonant patterns that bring peace or noises that are dissonant by nature and bring upheaval and disturbances to your existence. There is a time and place for everything to fit into.
drchief2 3 years ago 5
and she's buying the stairway to heaven
senselessstudios 3 years ago 3