1973
Scratching the Surface
play
1975
Anthropophagoi
music-theater piece, written in collaboration with John Rehberger
Percussion, Electronics, and Mouth
five short pieces for the Dubious Music Ensemble
1976
What Actually Happened
music-theater piece, written in collaboration with John Rehberger
Ballet Continuo
movement piece
1977
Shivering Tongue Fingers Air
solo music-theater piece
14 songs for Theoretical Girls
1978
Cognitive Dissonance
theater piece
20 songs for The Static
Inspirez/Expirez
instrumental composition for The Static
1979
Ernest Kitzler, 1964–1977
gallery exhibition
The Whole Field
performance piece, written in collaboration with Barbara Ess
(Instrumental) For Six Guitars
composition
The Spectacular Commodity
music for the dance Fluttering Black by Eiko and Koma
Dissonance
composition
Lesson No. 1 (for electric guitar)
composition
1980
(Instrumental) For Six Guitars
expanded version in three parts
The Ascension
composition
Music for a film by Dan Graham
(commissioned by WestKunst for German TV)
Light Field
composition
1981
Lesson No. 2
composition
Mambo Diabolique
one section of this composition is also the piece Structure
Symphony No. 1 (Tonal Plexus)
in four movements
Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses
for 10 soprano guitars
1982
Music for the dance Bad Smells
commissioned by the Twyla Tharp Dance Company
Symphony No. 2 (The Peak of the Sacred)
in five movements
1983
Symphony No. 3 (Gloria)
music for the first 127 intervals of the harmonic series
Acoustic Phenomena
music written as a performance collaboration with Dan Graham as part of his retrospective installation Pavilions
Symphony No. 4 (Physics)
in four movements
1984
Symphony No. 5 (Describing Planes of an Expanding Hypersphere)
in seven movements
1985
Classical Space (Forms of Infinite Regress Within a Finite Field)
gallery exhibition of 20 drawings derived from the harmonic series
1986
Chords
for refretted guitars and drums
Music for the Murobushi Company
for fretless, harmonics, mallet, and bass guitars and drums
Scene from In Passions Tongue
an opera based on the play Woyzeck by Georg Büchner
Hollywood Pentagon
for untempered steel-wire guitars and drums
Music for Edmond by David Mamet
for four guitars, keyboards, bass, and drums, on tape
Music for the film The Belly of an Architect by Peter Greenaway
for 48-piece string orchestra
1987
Symphony No. 6 (Angel Choirs at the Gates of Hell)
in four movements for guitars, keyboards, and drums
1988
Symphony No. 6 (Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven)
revised version in five movements
1989
Gates of Heaven
music for chorus
Symphony No. 7
in three movements for orchestra
Links to:
SONIC TRANSPORTS: Glenn Branca Contents
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
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