In 2018, the year of Branca’s death, another record attempt saw 457 guitarists come together in Canberra, Australia to play AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell.” Not exactly Branca’s cup of tea, but he probably had some hand in the inspiration, if only indirectly. These numbers pale next to the largest guitar ensemble on record, 6,346 people in Poland in 2009. “I could not believe that I was getting this sound.” Branca brought together hundreds of electric guitarists and percussionists, but he never realized his ambition of bringing together 2,000 guitarists at once in Paris for celebrations of the year 2000, settling for 100. “I remember one rehearsal where I actually had to stop and cry,” he once said. In the 1980s, avant-garde composer, guitarist Glenn Branca began writing symphonies for electric guitars - dozens of them, all playing at once, creating unprecedented psychoacoustic effects - sometimes beautiful harmony, sometimes unsettling dissonance - that reduced Branca himself to tears.
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