Texts by Herbert

“It is the retarder, on the other hand, who regrets that life abandons passing things and configurations, who eagerly learns and studies nature’s laws so that he may protect all and himself against these laws as long as possible, so that information may live a little longer before the communicative pit swallows it, before the digestive system of learned understanding will mutilate meaning for the production of meanings.” -Herbert Brün

Prose:

Teaching the Function of Time in Art (1952)

The Listener’s Interpretation of Music: An Experience Between Cause and Effect (1970)

From Musical Ideas to Computers and Back (1970)

Technology and the Composer (1970)

Drawing Distinctions Links Contradictions (1973)

…to hold discourse—at least—with a computer… (1973)

Traces Left by Ten Dialogues (with Mark Enslin)

Beethoven’s Bagatelles, Op. 126 (text of a radio commentary)

Interviews:

Towards Composition: Interviewed by Stuart Saunders Smith (1975)

” … as to the computer,”: Interviewed by Peter Hamlin (1977)

” … as to percussion,”: Interviewed by Tom Siwe (1984)

Other:

Larry Richards: The Anticommunication Imperative: A Tribute to Herbert Brün (2009)