Glenn Branca - Symphony 5 (live @ the Kitchen) PART 1
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Where should we be?
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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.
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This almost sort of kind of almost definitely sounds nothing like serialism. At all.
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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 !
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this is great fucking music!!!!
divine!!!
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@SMGSinc I agree that you can't understand this music. You need to FEEL it! And I'm very happy cos i really do/
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@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.
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Beautiful..
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this reminds me of walking through an abandoned church :]



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.
jodi183 1 year ago 2
@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!
SMGSinc 1 year ago