ESSAY ON GLENN BRANCA: “Fifteen Ways of Listening to the Song of the Earth”
1. “You can hear everything in a different way” (Glenn Branca and John Cage)
2. “I demand of art that it be life” (Georg Büchner)
3. 99 Albums (Lesson No. 1, The Spectacular Commodity, The Ascension)
4. The Vinyl Straitjacket (Music for Bad Smells)
5. Coming To Terms With The Symphony (Gustav Mahler)
6. “I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor” (Symphony No. 1)
7. Another Italian Libra (Victor Borge)
8. “Ask the nautilus shell” (The Harmonic Series)
9. Arcana (Edgard Varèse)
10. “Gloria” (Symphony No. 3)
11. The Volume Of True Dimension (James Agee)
12. “Who’s shaking them up?” (Loudness)
13. The Mutability Canto (Symphony No. 5)
14. Exaltation (Carl Ruggles)
15. Anakalypsis Now (Climaxes)
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SONIC TRANSPORTS: Contents
For more on Glenn Branca, see:
Music Book: Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Second Edition
Music Book: Soundpieces 2: Interviews with American Composers
Music Lecture: The Secret of 20th-Century American Music
Music: KALW Radio Show #1, A Few of My Favorite Things…
Music: SFCR Radio Show #7, Postmodernism, part 4: Three Contemporary Masters
NICOLE V. GAGNÉ 