Bibliographic record
Abstract
Glenn Branca (b. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1948) is an American composer noted for his works for massed electric guitars. Branca began his compositional career in New York after working in theatre in Boston. With his first two bands, The Static and Theoretical Girls, he began combining avant-garde art music with the No Wave scene of late 1970s New York. Following these early experiments, Branca started his own ensemble—which over the years included members of the rock bands Sonic Youth, Swans, and Helmet—for his albums Lesson No. 1 and The Ascension. His works are heavily influenced by the esoteric tuning theories of Hermann von Helmholtz, Dane Rudhyar, Hans Kayser, and Harry Partch. From these writers and his own early experiments, Branca developed a compositional style that utilized the clashing of high harmonics at extreme volumes to create an effect that is often described as ecstatic. While his use of the term ‘symphony’ to describe his large-scale works drew criticism earlier in his career, he has become an extremely prolific writer in that genre; his Symphony No. 15: Running Through the World Like an Open Razor (for strange orchestra) premiered at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge in November 2010.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.041 | 0.015 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".