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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
You don't find Branca's oddly-tuned, oddly-strung guitar symphonies of noise original?
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The thing is, the originality is in the structure. If you make an alto sax to play artificial harmonics in the soprano register, but they're playing standards, the alterations in inappropriate timbre don't make the music original, they make the player a virtuoso. Branca might use tunings that the guitar doesn't naturally sit in, but that doesn't immediately change the fact that, at the music-on-paper level, there really isn't much of a composer to Branca.
I will say though, what Branca does to the timbre, and volume, of his not-very-exciting structures is
innovative. Within the context of rock music, Branca is definitely
original but in the context of composition in general he can't touch, say, Dumitrescu or Murail.
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