Listening
- Teaching the Function of Time in Art (1952)
- The Function of Time in Art (1962)
- Music and Information and Communcation and Chaos and … (1964)
- The Listener’s Experience of Music (1970)
- For Anticommunication (1972)
- Symphony #9 by Gustav Mahler (1968)
Composing
- Towards Composition [interview] (1979)
- Against Plausibility (1963)
- … as to Percussion [interview] (1984)
- Guest Editorial in Keyboard Magazine (1985)
- Wayfaring Sounds (1962)
Composing with Computers
- Technology and the Composer (1970)
- From Musical Ideas to Computers and Back (1970)
- … to hold discourse — at least — with a computer … (1973)
- Composer’s Input Outputs Music (1968)
- … as to the Computer [interview] (1977)
Cybernetics
- Drawing Distinctions Links Contradictions (1973)
- A Conversation between Kenneth Gaburo and Herbert Brün (1973)
- On the Treatment of Complex Entities (1979)
- The Need of Cognition for the Cognition of Needs (1973)
- A Course on Heuristics (1970) co-taught with Heinz von Foerster
Plays
Presentations
Computer Graphics
Miscellanea
- Statements from the Whole University Catalog (1969?)
- Statements from Kenneth Gaburo’s “Allos”
- Memorial Statements for composers Salvatore Martirano and Igor Stravinsky
- Existentialism and the Arts (two fragments) (1962)
- Gustav Mahler and the Virtues of Ambiguity (two fragments)
- Translation of Mahler’s “The Song of the Earth”
- Manual for computer music program ‘SAWDUST’
- Booklet from the 1998 Festival for Herbert Brün’s 80th birthday year
- Booklet from 1988: Collaboration with The Performer’s Workshop Ensemble
Books
- Über Musik und zum Computer (1971)
- my words and where I want them (1986)
- Draft version of “When Music Resists Meaning” (12/2002)
Biography
Infraudibles with Quintet
- Score
- Studio performance from May, 2018. Callum McKean (trombone), Oliver Cramer (cello), Ben Michaelis (guitar), Ben Kapp (bass), Oscar Kryzanauskas (piano), Arun Chandra (conductor)
Published articles about Brün and his work
- Electronic Composition in the Junior High School (1968)
- “Focus on the Unconventional: Sound, Symbol, Composition and Performance in a Fourth-Grade General Music Class (1973)
- Project Sawdust by Herbert Brün (1979)
- Computer-Plotted Graphics (1981)
- Symposium on Computer Music Composition (1986)
- Systems of Embers, Dust, and Clouds: Observations after Xenakis and Brün (2002)
Two presentations (with discussion) and an Interview taken during Herbert Brün’s visit to the University of California, San Diego, November 1972
Presentation 1: “Right or Wrong: My Desires”
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Presentation 2: “Compound Statements”
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