Glenn Branca Interview: Sounds From the Subconscious

“’I had to squeeze the music out of that thing!’ Feel the good vibes in this laid back interview with legendary American avant-garde composer and noise-guitarist Glenn Branca, who has influenced bands like Sonic Youth. ‘I want people to do what they want to do, not what culture wants them to do.’ In this interview Glenn Branca talks about how he learned to play on a guitar which was really cheap and hard to play, and how he feels lucky to have been a young man in the ’60s, when there was an explosion of good music and lots of amazing sounds to get into. Branca is always looking for new sounds and his primary interest is ‘opening music up to ambiguity,’ he says. ...”

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