{"id":896,"date":"2003-09-26T20:00:41","date_gmt":"2003-09-26T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/wp\/?p=896"},"modified":"2012-10-23T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T16:09:21","slug":"maximal-minimal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/?p=896&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Branca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>26.09.2003 \/ 20:00 h<br \/>\nSt. Elisabeth-Kirche<\/p>\n<p>20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin<br \/>\nMAXIMAL MINIMAL<\/p>\n<p><strong>Symphony No.14 (Retrospective) <\/strong>&#8211; WP<br \/>\n&#8211; Commission for rock band and electronics &#8211;<br \/>\nGlenn Branca \u2013 overtone guitar<br \/>\nRegina Bloor \u2013 guitar<br \/>\nRyan Walsh \u2013 bass<br \/>\nTony Cenicola \u2013 drums<\/p>\n<p><strong>Glenn Branca<\/strong>&#8217;s (New York)\u00a0astonishingly powerful, harmonic (i.e.based on overtone series) microtonal music for massed groups of electric guitars and keyboards is closely linked with the history of Freunde. Since the end of the &#8217;70s, Branca has experimented with the sound and overtones of electric guitars, and developed his own instruments and special tuning systems based on the finely gradated intervals of the partial tone series. He began, moreover, to be concerned with large-scale musical forms. Branca&#8217;s symphonies for large ensembles of electric guitars and guitar-mutants lasted up to an hour and a half \u2013 unleashing monumental and ecstatic storms of sound \u2013 and made the \u00bbWagnerian punk&#8220; (SZ) a cult figure in avant-garde circles in the first half of the &#8217;80s. Having returned early in the &#8217;90s to softer sounds and more tempered tuning Branca has in recent years created new compositions for as many as 100 electric guitars. For its 20th anniversary, Freunde has commissioned a new work by Glenn Branca who, with his ensemble, is giving the premiere performance of his hour-long piece in one movement, \u00bbSymphony No. 14\u00ab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26.09.2003 \/ 20:00 h St. Elisabeth-Kirche 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin MAXIMAL MINIMAL Symphony No.14 (Retrospective) &#8211; WP &#8211; Commission for rock band and electronics &#8211; Glenn Branca \u2013 overtone guitar Regina Bloor \u2013 guitar Ryan Walsh \u2013 bass Tony Cenicola \u2013 drums Glenn Branca&#8217;s (New York)\u00a0astonishingly powerful, harmonic (i.e.based on overtone series) microtonal music for massed groups of electric guitars and keyboards is closely linked with the history of Freunde. Since the end of the &#8217;70s, Branca has experimented with the sound and overtones of electric guitars, and developed his own instruments and special tuning systems based on the finely gradated intervals of the partial tone series. He began, moreover, to be concerned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,32],"tags":[136,115,128,122,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}