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Herbert Brün

Herbert Brün (July 9, 1918 – November 6, 2000) was a composer, pioneer of electronic and computer music, and cybernetician. Born in Berlin, Germany, he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1962 until he retired, several years before his death.

Life[edit]

Herbert Brün was born to a German Jewish family in Berlin. Many of his relatives died in the Holocaust during World War II.[6][7][8][9] He was married to Marianne Brün, an intellectual, writer, and teacher of social theory; she was the daughter of the famous German actors Fritz Kortner and Johanna Hofer.[10]

Five Pieces for piano, Op.1 (1940–45)

Sonatina for viola alone, Op.12 (1950)

String Quartet No.2 (1957)

Anepigraphe (1958) (tape alone)

Klange unterwegs ('Wayfaring Sounds') (1962) (tape alone)

Trio, for flute, double-bass, and percussion (1964)

Futility 1964 (tape alone)

Sonoriferous Loops (1964) (chamber ensemble and tape)

Infraudibles (1968/1984) (optional chamber ensemble and tape)

Piece of Prose (1972) (tape alone)

Dust (1976) (SAWDUST No. 1) (tape alone)

More Dust (1977) (SAWDUST No. 2) (optional percussion and tape)

Dustiny (1978) (SAWDUST No. 3) (tape alone)

A Mere Ripple (1979) (SAWDUST No. 4) (tape alone)

U-TURN-TO (1980) (SAWDUST No. 5) (tape alone)

I toLD YOU so! (1981) (SAWDUST No. 6) (tape alone)

Sentences Now Open Wide (SNOW) (1984)

on stilts among ducks (1996) (viola and tape)

Brün, Herbert. Über Musik und zum Computer. Karlsruhe: G. Braun, 1971. Accompanied by a 10-inch LP recording.

Computer-generated graphics. , Vol. 5, No. 2, summer, 1981.

Computer Music Journal

Brün, Herbert. My Words and Where I Want Them. Champaign, IL; London: Princelet Editions, 1990.  0-86298-028-3

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Brün, Herbert. Irresistible Observations, edited by Mark Enslin, Susan Parenti, Andrew Trull. Champaign, IL: Non Sequitur Press.  0-9662448-6-9

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Brün, Herbert. Sighs in Disguise, edited by Mark Enslin, Susan Parenti, Andrew Trull. Champaign, IL: Non Sequitur Press.  0-9662448-5-0

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Brün, Herbert. When Music Resists Meaning: The Major Writings of Herbert Brün, edited by Arun Chandra. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004.  0-8195-6669-1 (cloth) ISBN 0-8195-6670-5 (pbk.)

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Herbert Brün website

at the Wayback Machine (archived February 24, 2005)

ICMA obit

Brün article: Technology and the Composer

Brün article: Teaching the Function of Time in Art

Articles and associated works