Glenn Branca

His early music was performed in No Wave bands of the late 1970s in New York, namely The Static[?] and Theoretical Girls[?]. He soon thereafter began composing symphonies for orchestras of electric guitars and percussion, which blended droning industrial cacophany and microtonality with quasi-mysticism. Early members of his ensemble included Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. He also plays duets for excessively amplified guitars with his wife, and conducted a symphony for 100 electric guitars in New York City in 1999.