Doxologist ContentGlenn Branca & 100 Guitar Symphony Downtown 5/16
A couple years ago I was at a party milling around and overhead someone talking about a 100 guitar symphony. I was intrigued. Personally, I can’t think of anything more exuberant sounding than 100 electric guitars playing at the same place at the same time. The artist that conducted the event’s name was Glenn Branca.
Branca is one of the forerunners of the short lived NYC No Wave scene from the late 70s and early 80s. No Wave was basically an arty / extreme response to the “commercialization” of punk. Basically, No Wave is pretty much unlistenable music wise. But it’s interesting. Check out the documentary Kill Your Idols for more info.
Branca is conducting his 100 guitar symphony Hallucination City this friday night (hosted by the Seattle Art Museum) starting at 7pm down at the outdoor Olympic Sculpture Park. I was hoping the event would be free since it’s outdoors. Unfortunately, admission is $175. Apparently you have to be rich to experience anti-art these days.
In other news myself and a couple faithful Doxologist volunteers are busy building an extensive MP3 | song sheet repository. Basically we will have a page dedicated to providing this content together in one place so that you don’t have to go hunting for it anymore. Oh, and my beautiful first born baby girl came into the world a month ago so blogging hasn’t been too much of a priority these days. Stay tuned on the songs page.
I’ll work hard in my own little sphere of influence (an art classroom) to make sure that some anti-art is a little more accessable to the masses, ie, charge a lot less admission! So funny.
any idea on when you’ll have lyrics and sheet music for Destructor? or if its up already, where i might find it? thanks much.
Jason,
I am currently working a large all-MH-band song sheet/mp3 repository. I’ve been working on it for several weeks and hope to have it up within the next week or so after I work out some of the glitches.