Symphony no. 2
Subtitle: (The peak of the sacred)
By: Branca
Contributors: Z'ev (Musician); Radio City Studios
Publisher: Atavistic Video
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Chicago
Format: [sound recording] :
Subjects: Symphonies (Instrumental ensemble); Live sound recordings; Electronic music
Other titles: Peak of the sacred
Work titles: Symphonies, no. 2.
Notes: For mallet guitars (designed by Branca and built specifically for this work), bass drum, tape, bass, drums, cymbals, concert bass drum and metal instruments.

Compact disc.

Various instrumentalists, featuring Z'ev, concert bass drum and metal instruments created by him ; Glenn Branca, conductor.

Recorded live at St. Mark's Church, New York, 14 May 1992; quad-tape part performed by Glenn Branca and pre-recorded at Radio City Music Hall Studios.
Table of contents: title: First movement : Slow mass (22:19); title: Second movement : Radioactive poltergeist kitchen 1955 (19:45); title: Third movement : Melodrama and nuclear physics in the global theater (18:38); title: Fourth movement : Sacred field (10:27); title: Fifth movement : In the late 20th century the impossible becomes possible. Short excerpt (2:18).