Glenn Branca's Electric Guitar Swarm


Barbican Hall
Barbican Centre
Silk Street,
London
EC2Y 8DS


Stalls, seat M26



Saturday, 31 October 1998


Even though a lot of this is incomplete I hope there is still some interest in it. Any help or corrections with the setlist is appreciated...



Phil Mackie's notes:

My portable cassette recorder was becoming temperamental
and this recording is less complete than it might have been. I was recording Symphony No 12 on side two of the tape.
But somehow the tape was being pulled through the machine at high speed
and I felt the "record" button pop out after only a few minutes.
I flipped the tape to save what I could of the Branca, but this meant overwriting other stuff.

There was no interval as such, but I left the auditorium briefly after the Wharton Tiers set.
When I returned, Phil Kline's piece was already in progress.
I recorded what I could on the remainder of side one.

What we have here is:


John Myers' Blastula

1. Announcement
2. Untitled (first 6 minutes or so only)


Wharton Tiers:

1. Untitled (Cuts in)
2. Untitled
3. Twighlight Of The Computer Age
4. Sheet Metal


Phil Kline:

1. Chant (incomplete)


Glen Branca:

1. Symphony No. 12 Tonal Sexus (start missing)




Recording by Phil Mackie: TDK IECI/Type I normal position
Aiwa HS-JS315 with Aiwa lapel microphone (recording) >
Panasonic RQ-L480 (playback) >
Zoom H2 digital recorder, 48kHz/24 bit (rerecording as .wav file) > flac

Tracking and seeded by stubba: Audacity 1.3 Beta > Trader's Little Helper



Also included is scans of the American Pioneers Programme


http://whartontiers.com/
http://www.philkline.com/
http://glennbranca.com/