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Yuri Landman
Yuri Landman
Luthier, comics artist
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Chris Brown
Chris Brown
American composer, pianist and electronic musician
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Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore
American guitarist
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Rhys Chatham
Rhys Chatham
American composer
4
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
band
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Lee Ranaldo
Lee Ranaldo
American musician
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Andreas Paolo Perger
Andreas Paolo Perger
Guitarist, Improviser, Composer
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Page Hamilton
Page Hamilton
American singer and guitarist
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Georges Lentz
Georges Lentz
Luxembourg / Australian composer
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Virgil Moorefield
Virgil Moorefield
American composer
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Z'EV
Z'EV
American percussionist
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Donnacha Dennehy
Donnacha Dennehy
Irish composer
12
Live Skull
Live Skull
American band
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Jim Hall
Jim Hall
American jazz guitarist, composer
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Markus Reuter
Markus Reuter
German musician
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John Luther Adams
John Luther Adams
American composer
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William Bolcom
William Bolcom
American composer
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Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist
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Nels Cline
Nels Cline
American guitarist and composer
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Michael Mantler
Michael Mantler
Austrian musician
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Yusef Lateef
Yusef Lateef
American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
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Michael Hedges
Michael Hedges
American composer, guitarist and singer-songwriter
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Don Ellis
Don Ellis
American jazz musician
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Masamichi Amano
Masamichi Amano
Japanese composer
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Mars
Mars
American rock band
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Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor
American fiddle player
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Blind Idiot God
Blind Idiot God
band
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Band of Susans
Band of Susans
band
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Bobby Previte
Bobby Previte
American drummer
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Compay Segundo
Compay Segundo
Cuban musician
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The Flesh Eaters
The Flesh Eaters
American punk band

Glenn Branca (October 6, 1948 – May 13, 2018) was an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. Branca received a 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.