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Herbert Brün (July 9, 1918 – November 6, 2000) was a composer and pioneer of electronic and computer music. Born in Berlin, Germany, he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1962 until he retired, several years before his death. ==Career== Brün left Germany in 1936 to study piano and composition at the Jerusalem Conservatory (later renamed Israel Academy of Music) in (then) Palestine〔(emf.org ) Nb: Josef Tal had emigrated to Israel in 1934.〕 with Stefan Wolpe, Eli Friedman and Frank Pelleg. While in Palestine, he also worked as a jazz pianist. In 1948, he received a scholarship to further his studies at Tanglewood and Columbia University through 1950.〔Chandra 2004.〕 His work as an electronic-music composer began in Paris in the late 1950s, at the WDR studio in Cologne, and at the Siemens studio in Munich.〔Enslin 2001.〕 During the 1950s, he also worked as composer and conductor of music for the theater, gave lectures and seminars emphasizing the function of music in society, and did a series of broadcasts on contemporary music.〔Chandra 2004.〕 After a lecture tour of the United States in 1962, he was invited by Lejaren Hiller to join the University of Illinois Center for Advanced Computation for 1963-64, at the conclusion of which he was asked to stay on as a member of the faculty.〔Chandra 2004〕 In Illinois, Brün began research on composition with computers, which resulted in pieces for tape and instruments, tape alone, and graphics.〔Enslin 2001.〕 His compositions from this period include ''Futility 1964'' (1964) and ''Non Sequitur VI'' (1966). Brün began programming in FORTRAN in the late 1960s as he pursued an interest in designing processes. This work resulted in ''Infraudibles'' (1968) and ''Mutatis Mutandis'' (1968). The work included the creation of graphical representations of computer-generated music. From 1968–74, he co-taught courses at the Biological Computer Lab with Heinz von Foerster (Professor of Electrical Engineering, Physics, and Biology) on cybernetics, heuristics, composition, cognition, and social change. In 1974, the members of the class published the book ''The Cybernetics of Cybernetics''.〔Chandra 2004.〕 In 1972, Brün created a new synthesis technique which generated new timbres by linking and merging tiny portions of waveforms. (Efforts along similar lines are described in the article Granular synthesis.) From 1980 on, he toured and taught with the Performers' Workshop Ensemble, a group he founded. Brün was instrumental in helping the then fledgling Computer Music Association get started in the middle 1970s, helping host conferences at the University of Illinois in 1976, and again in 1986. He was invited to give the keynote address at their annual conference in 1985.〔Chandra 2004.〕 Brün was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Goethe University Frankfurt (1999), and the Norbert Wiener medal from the American Society for Cybernetics in 1993. He helped found the School for Designing a Society in 1993 and taught there through the year 2000. His awards and honors also include the SEAMUS Award for Lifelong Achievement (2000), and a prize from the International Society of Bassists (1977). In 1969, he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ohio State University. He was one of two participants from the United States invited by UNESCO to their symposium ''Music and Technology'' (1970). He was ''Guest Professor'' invited jointly by the Hochschule der Kunste and the Technical University Berlin (1978); ''Composer in residence'' at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (May 1982); ''Composer in Residence'' at the University of Missouri (Kansas City) (1983); and ''Guest Composer'' at the annual convention of the Percussive Arts Society, St. Louis (1987).〔Chandra 2004.〕 Brun's students at the University of Illinois were referred to, often pejoratively, as Brünettes.〔Preissing, Christopher, Interview, University of Illinois School of Music, January, 1989.〕 His notable students include Stuart Saunders Smith. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Herbert Brün」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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