Herbert Brün Society

The Whole University Catalog (pdf courtesy of Spineless Books)

The capstone publication of the 1968–69 heuristics seminar, which students entitled The Whole University Catalog, left no doubt as to its inspiration. A popular periodical out of California called The Whole Earth Catalog had first appeared in 1968. Founder Stewart Brand conceived the twice-yearly catalog as a sort of heuristic for the counterculture, or as he described it, a tool for “the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share in his adventure with whoever is interested.” Accordingly, The Whole University Catalog served as an unauthorized guide to the U of I. Emulating the oversized format and densely graphic appeal of The Whole Earth Catalog, the students’ production contained information about local food, housing, and culture; academic and social resources; and essays, poetry, graphic art, and photography, all informed by a playful cybernetic outlook. Copies were sold for a dollar apiece, with profits going to the university’s Special Educational Opportunities Program. Much of the collection was irreverent toward the academic establishment and dismissive of traditional academic publishing standards, earning The Whole University Catalog the scorn of certain campus administrators and even one Springfield legislator, who hauled von Foerster before a special hearing to answer for his students’ work. (James Hutchinson “Nerve Center” of the Cybernetic World)

von Foerster, H. and Brün, H. (1970.) Heuristics: A report on a course on knowledge aquisition. BCL Report 13.1, Biological Computer Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; October 3, 1970.

Pre-PWE Folder 1: New York ASUC
Notes for a  presentation (?) at American Society of University Composers First Annual Conference April 1-3, 1966 at NYU & Columbia. On the relation of digital and analog to composition.

Pre-PWE Folder 2: Computer Cantata
German language texts written by Herbert Brün. “Computer Cantata” is the title of a composition by Lejaren Hiller from 1963.

Pre-PWE Folder 3: CERITA – The Ohio State University
Mail correspondence between Herbert Brün and Ohio State faculty regarding a visit from Noa Eshkol, and a lecture-demostration by Herbert Brün on January 26, 1967.

Pre-PWE Folder 4: Against Plausibility
Draft and reprint from Perspectives of New Music of Herbert Brün’s text “Against Plausibility” published in Fall-Winter 1963.

Pre-PWE Folder 5: Lecture in Baltimore 1964
Herbert Brün’s notes for a lecture he gave in Baltimore.

Pre-PWE Folder 6: Anticommunication: an attempt, not a refusal
Herbert Brün notes on anticommunication for talks dated back to 1969, including a presentation at Cincinatti.

Pre-PWE Folder 7: Cornell Article: From Musical Ideas to the Computer and Back
Correspondence dated to 1970-71 on the 2nd Edition of The Computer and Music (Cornell Press) and back to the initial acceptance of Herbert Brün’s “From Musical Ideas to the Computer and Back” in 1967.

Pre-PWE Folder 8: Lecture Columbus (Musical Ideas to the Computer and Back); Comments (was separate folder – may not have to do with lecture)
Indeed this is a lecture for Columbus, Ohio, probably some early form of the essay “Musical Ideas to the Computer and Back”… Sarah Wiseman added a short document called “Comments” from a separate folder – it may or may not have to do with Brün’s lecture.

Pre-PWE Folder 9: Report on Computer Pieces
Herbert Brün notes for a report on his computer pieces, semi-official sounding.

Pre-PWE Folder 10: UNESCO
Herbert Brün’s original writing and correspondence around “Technology and the Composer” which was presented at the UNESCO meetings in Stockholm in 1970.

Pre-PWE Folder 11: Dartmouth, April 6, 1966
A presentation by Herbert Brün entitled “An Analogy to Communication with and within Society” on the project entitled “Research on the conditions under which a a system of digital and analog computers would assist a composer in creating music of contemporary relevance and significance”.

Pre-PWE Folder 12: Mason Text
A draft of text that Herbert Brün was preparing, perhaps for a typographer?

Pre-PWE Folder 13: “Anticommunication”; Infraudibles
Sarah Wiseman: 1. “Contents (incl. what was written on folder) of “Anticommunication” folder are within this paperclip.” 2. “Contents of “Heinz von Foerster” folder. Had zilch to do with Heinz. It is a draft of Infraudibles talk.” Lots of revisions written upon the latter.

Pre-PWE Folder 14: UCLA Lecture 1965
“Music and Information versus Communication and Chaos” writing by Herbert Brün for a UCLA lecture in 1965.

Pre-PWE Folder 15: Music & Existentialism
Lecture notes on “Music and Existentialism” by Herbert Brün.

Pre-PWE Folder 16: Unfinished: Virtue of Ambiguity – Musical Theatre
Herbert Brün on Gustav Mahler, and ambiguity — lecture notes.

Pre-PWE Folder 17: Smith Publications For and By Herbert Brün
A contract (or somesuch) between Sylvia Smith and Herbert Brün regarding the publication of his scores, dating to 1992, 1994. Lists of Brün’s compositions. A copy of For and By Herbert Brün, May3-5, 1988. Admittedly these are not “Pre-PWE” materials.

Pre-PWE Folder 18: Stockholm UNESCO (?)
A collection of other composers’ papers from Herbert Brün’s trip to the UNESCO meeting in Stockholm. Several pieces in non-English language. Also, drafts of Brün’s statement to the UNESCO panel.

Pre-PWE Folder 19: Brün: Research on the conditions…
Notes for a Herbert Brün talk, including notes in German, and a playing of Futility 1964.

Pre-PWE Folder 20: Santa Fe; Harbour College, LA
Some correspondence with Gordon Epperson from Ohio State University regarding his manuscript “Music in and Out of Time” as well as various notes for Herbert Brün lectures.

Pre-PWE Folder 21: Musical Ideas for Synthetic Sound | Es ist oft Schwierig…
Draft for a text entitled “Musical Ideas for Synthetic Sound” by Herbert Brün. Also a 6 page text in German by Brün.

Pre-PWE Folder 22: Musik der neuen Grenzen Gehört und Wiedergehärt – “Essay von G.M. Koenig” by Herbert Brün
Essay materials in German and English, by Herbert Brün.

Pre-PWE Folder 23: Mit Verdorrten Zungen (Sendung 2.3.1966, incl. Futility 1964)
A publication from Hanser-Verlag Hanser-Reihe 28 (no date). A German text prepared for publication entitled “Studio Für Neue Musik: Sprache und Musik (4)” dated to January 1966.

Pre-PWE Folder 24: Betrachtungen eines Beteiligten (Darmstadt 1965)
German language text entitled “Betrachtungen eines Beteiligten” for a Congress on “Form in der Neuen Musik” at Darmstadt, 1965.

Pre-PWE Folder 25: Marginalie
Three texts, all in German, all by Herbert Brün.

Pre-PWE Folder 26: Tsatskis
English language stuff, formulations, a few drawings, by Herbert Brün.

Pre-PWE Folder 27: Materials (well, HB knew what he meant)
A semi-random assortment of stuff. A project proposal, a revision of “From Musical Ideas to the Computer and Back” from Poland, a program of events, etc.

Pre-PWE Folder 28: John Cage
A German text entitled “John Cage und die Gegenwärtige Musik” and an English text on computer music.

Pre-PWE Folder 29: Sendung: J.S. Bach – 4 Duette ans dem 3. Teil der “Clavierübung”
A German text on J.S. Bach. Handwritten manuscript.

Pre-PWE Folder 30: Musik und Technik
Two parts of a German text entitled “Musik und Technik” by Herbert Brün.

Pre-PWE Folder 31: Geste unter Zwang + Dibelius Brief
Two texts in German, one possibly not by Herbert Brün, and dated to March 26, 1974.

Pre-PWE Folder 32: Geste Unter Zwang WDR Sendung
A manuscript and possibly correspondence about publication, in German.

Pre-PWE Folder 33: Existieren als Komponist
A German essay, and its English translation “Existing as a Composer” apparently translated by Herbert Brün himself.

Pre-PWE Folder 34: Musik und Sprache
Several stapled collections of pages in German, as well as a proposal for research in music dated to 1964 in English, all by Herbert Brün.

Pre-PWE Folder 35: (also) project
Language for the proposal of a research project into new means of generating music. Perhaps this is the sort of English equivalent of Pre-PWE Folder 34?

Pre-PWE Folder 36: Past Correspondence [Electronic Studio 1962-67]
Title of the folder is self-explanatory. Approx. 200 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 37: Past Correspondence [Hochschule der Künstë Technische Universität]
Title of the folder is self-explanatory. Approx. 50 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 38: Past Correspondence [English] [but German too]
Title of the folder is self-explanatory. 1970s era Approx. 100 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 39: Past! Correspondence [Germany]
Title of the folder is self-explanatory. 1970s era Approx. 75 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 40: Correspondence with Publishers, Radio Stations, Journals & Magazines Also Arts Festivals
Title of the folder is self-explanatory. 1960s and 1970s Approx. 100 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 41: Past Correspondence [Klaus Schultz]
Title of the folder is self-explanatory. 1982. Approx. 20 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 42: Past Correspondence [Saarlandischer Rundfunk]
Title of the folder is self-explanatory. Late 1970s to 1980 Approx. 125 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 43: Contents of Bergner’s Bag
Essays and Interviews of Herbert Brün. Mutatis Mutandis. For & By.

Pre-PWE Folder 44: Passports, Green Card application, Curriculum Vitae & lists of works
Title of the folder is self-explanatory. The contents of this folder are photocopies of the passports and green card applications in “HBSoc Folder 21″.

Pre-PWE Folder 45: Herbert: texts, programs, etc.           PWE
Collection of Daily Illini stories on anti-war protests organized by members of the P.W.E. Probably shouldn’t be catagorized as “Pre-PWE folder” but the title of the folder is written in Herbert Brün’s old handwriting.

Pre-PWE Folder 46: Graphik-Blätter
Some correspondence, in English and German, probably about Brün’s graphics.

Pre-PWE Folder 47: Mizelle + Schloifer
1980s era correspondence regarding Eckart Schloifer and programs, all in German.

Pre-PWE Folder 48: Grant “The Music You Listen To”
A grant prepared by Marianne Brün in 1982 to fund a project at Unit One called “The Music You Listen To” Also some notes from Herbert Brün to the Performers Workshop Ensemble about stage presence and distinguishing description.

Pre-PWE Folder 49: Noa Eshkol
Possibly 300 pages or so on correspondence aimed at bringing Noa Eshkol to Urbana, and focusing on various aspects of her work.

Pre-PWE Folder 50: Cuernavaca (read more)
Work from the Summer trip to CIDOC when Heinz Von Foerster, Marianne Brün, Humberto Maturana, and Herbert Brün went to Cuernavaca. Materials dated to 1971. Approx. 200 pages of material. (read more)

Connected Document: CIDOC Cuaderno No. 1014 (read more)
Von Foerster, Heinz. (Ed.) 1971. Interpersonal Relational Networks. Centro Intercultural de Documentacion (CIDOC) 1014. Apdo. 479. Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Connected Document: CIDOC Cuaderno No. 1016 (read more)
Illich, Ivan. 1971. The Breakdown of Schools. Centro Intercultural de Documentacion (CIDOC) 1016. Apdo. 479. Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Pre-PWE Folder 51: Cybernetics of Cybernetics
Materials collected (probably) in preparation of the Cybernetics of Cybernetics book. Some pages dated to 1973. Approx. 150 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 52: Seminar 183
Materials from the seminar in 1983?

Pre-PWE Folder 53: Heuristics II 1968-70 or so (read more)
The labels of these folders are misleading: “Heuristics I” & “Heuristics II” are not sequential, but rather are the 2 big folders that have lots of material from the Heuristics courses offered between 1968 and 1970. This folder containts course materials and student responses from all three years: 1968, 1969 and 1970. Also original unpublished writing from Herbert Brün and Heinz Von Foerster. Approx. 150 pages. (read more)

Pre-PWE Folder 54: Heuristics I (1968-69) (read more)
The labels of these folders are misleading: “Heuristics I” & “Heuristics II” are not sequential, but rather are the 2 big folders that have lots of material from the Heuristics courses offered between 1968 and 1970. This folder primarily contains material from the first Heuristic course which apparently was offered in Fall 1968. It also has material form 1969, and original unpublished writing from Herbert Brün and Heinz Von Foerster. Approx. 200 pages. (read more)

Heuristics Course Supplements (1968-70) (read more)

• The Whole University Catalog (BCL No. 69.3)
• Heuristics (BCL Report 13.1) (read more)

Pre-PWE Folder 55: Publishers, Letters of Support, Sabbatical, Newcomp Comp. Music Journal, Record (CRI, etc.)
Various write-ups. publication correspondence, etc. From the 1970s etc. Approx. 150 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 56: Über Musik… …und zum Computer
Writings in German and a cartoon (by one of the Brün children) for a song about nature. Approx. 25 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 57: Elektronische Reihe
German language writing by Herbert Brün. Approx. 10 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 58: Musik und Information
Large German manuscript by Herbert Brün, organized into 8 chapters. Handwritten and typewritten versions. Approx. 250 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 59: Entry in The Computer & Music
Manuscript for Herbert Brün’s essay that begins with the sound of events versus events of sound distinction. 1969.  Approx. 30 pages. English.

Pre-PWE Folder 60: Designing Amicus, SIAT, SBIP; Interactive Interface
1977 grant proposal by Herbert Brün for what is apparently a proto-SBIP proposal (SBIP = Socially Beneficial Information Processor). This places the concept of SBIP almost a decade before the publication of Designing Society (Princelet, 1985).

Pre-PWE Folder 61: Fragments of “Gustav Mahler & the Virtue of Ambiguity”; Fragments on “Music and Existentialism”. Against Plausibility
Contains 1963 version and 1989 version of “Against Plausibility” right next to each other. Also, some fragments of these other pieces, by Brün. Approx. 40 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 62: Vortrag: Darmstadt 1965-66
German language writing and calculations. Top page reads “About: CSX-1, Soniferous Loops, Non Sequitur VI, MUSICOMP, etc. Rest is German. Approx. 150 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 63: Über Musik und Zum Computer Sendry
Correspondence and revisions and whatnot for Herbert Brün’s German language essay “Über Musik und Zum Computer”. All German. It looks like the copyright was signed over in 1971. Approx. 100 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 64: Part of large Musik und Information folder but not sure how related: I. Das Bildnis, etc.; Musik der neuen Grenzen; Betrachtungen eines Beteiligten; Existieren als Komponist; Erläuterung zur beiliegenden Schallplatte
Typewritten German by Herbert Brün. Title of folder explains it well. Approx. 40 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 65: Musik und Information – revised for BR Sendung
A manuscript of Musik und Information (German) by Herbert Brün. Title page says 1962.

Pre-PWE Folder 66: Mahler Vortrage
A book-length handwritten work on Gustav Mahler, by Herbert Brün. Broken into 6 chapters. Approx. 125 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 67: Auf Dentsch
Various notes in German on Über Musik und zum Computer, Musik und Information, and other programs to accompany their presentation (?) All German. Approx. 75 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 68: Sätze am Hildesheimer
Not sure what this stuff is… German formulations by Herbert Brün (?) Folder seems to be dated to 1981 and contains a 1981-era list of Herbert Brün’s publications in English.

Pre-PWE Folder 69: Deutsch
Folder cover lists a collection of compositions by Herbert Brün and others. The remaining pages are German langauge writing – by Brün, on the compositions listed on the cover (?) Approx. 75 pages.

Pre-PWE Folder 70: Unfortunately True (read more)
Pre-PWE Folder 70 contains responses to a 5 page long assignment describing how to write “Unfortunately True” statements. The course was apparently offered through the BCL, as Psych 493 (and likely cross-listed) under the title “Seminar on Cognitive Studies”. Responses from 45 students were received, several dated Feb. 24, 1971. (read more)

Pre-PWE Folder 71: Deutsch 2
A drawing of the seating arrangement (?) at a seminar and notes on the seminar, in English on page 1. Then approx. 50 pages of German language writing, maybe formulations? No dates, but mention of Mark Enslin and Mark Sullivan on page 1 suggests that Brün wrote this stuff in the 1970s or 80s.

Pre-PWE Folder 72: Function of Time in Art
Herbert Brün’s handwritten manuscripts for the 1952 Teaching the Function of Time in Art and the 1962 The Function of Time in Art. The final pages in this folder give a list of proposed lectures, perhaps dated to when Marianne helped set up Herbert’s lecture tour in the USA that eventually resulted in Brün coming to the University of Illinois after an invitation from Lejaren Hiller.

Pre-PWE Folder 73: A Listener’s Interpretation of Music: An Experience Between Cause and Effect
First and second English versions of A Listener’s Interpretation of Music dated to 1970 and presentations at Ohio State.

Education Folder 1: 1987 Cyber Conference – Urbana 1987
Programs from the 1987 Conference of the American Society for Cybernetics: Creative Cybernetics: Our Utopianists’ Audacious Constructions, Dec 2-5, 1987 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Plus one copy of the program from the 1986 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics: Conversations in Cybernetics, February 19-23, 1986 at Virginia Beach, VA.

Education Folder 2: Composers’ Forum Sept ‘86
Program for the 1986 Composers’ Forum featuring Herbert Brün and the Performers’ Workshop Ensemble (PWE).

Education Folder 3: [unlabeled]
Collection of programs for concerts, conferences, etc. and a bunch of stuff from Herbert Brün’s students from the late 1970s that appear to be flyers or challenges to concerts, contentious proposals, etc.

Education Folder 4: [unlabeled]
Two syllabi for courses taught by Mark Sullivan.

Education Folder 5: Right or Wrong – My Desires
Course rosters and responses to the Desire assignment for the EE 497 Heuristics class taught by Heinz Von Foerster and Herbert Brün.

Education Folder 6: [unlabeled]
Materials from Robert Paredes circa 1993 (?) for Herbert Brün (?)

Education Folder 7: Stefan
Text from Stefan Brün 1992-1994. Includes a letter of regret for not being able to attend the 1994 Summer School for Designing a Society.

Education Folder 8: Music 199, Spring ‘93: The History that Music Made
Responses to an assignment in the 1993 MUS 199 course taught by Herbert Brün.

Education Folder 9: New College Jan 1993
Some random notes from the HB/PWE trip to Sarasota, Florida in 1993.

Education Folder 10: LAS 295 – Fall 1993
Materitals from a course taught in 1993.

Education Folder 11: House Seminar
Materials related to Herbert’s assignment entitled “fallback trap”. Fall 1992. Rick Burkhardt and Brian Hagy appear in the responses to the assignment.

Education Folder 12: Stoneybrook 4/27/92
Materials from a concert by Herbert Brün.

Education Folder 13: [unlabeled]
Sylvia Smith and Sonic Art Editions related news and materials circa 1991-92.

Education Folder 14: HONORS – CURRENT
Materials related to a Spring 1991 Honors course entitled “Composition between Disciplines” co-taught by Herbert Brün and the P.W.E. A letter from the honors program requests that the course be offered a second time.

Education Folder 15: [unlabeled]
Some Cybernetics materials, including perhaps the announcement of the creation of the journal “Cybernetics & Human Knowing” circa 1991 — some essays by Heinz Von Foerster and Stafford Beer strewn in there somewhere.

Education Folder 16: SEAMUS – C-U, 1991
Materials from the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) concerts at the University of Illinois in 1991.

Education Folder 17: Festival Miami, Sept. 91
Society of Composers, Inc. music festival materials.

Education Folder 18: CON-SHOP (Chandra, Robinsook, etc.) Urbana-’91
Materials from a concert.

Education Folder 19: [unlabeled]
Materials from a trip to Germany in 1993 (?) Lots of German language materials, brochures and things. The top essay (by Laura Eungeheuer) is also in English. the rest German. Approx. 150 pages.

Education Folder 20: Essen, Frau Buhle (?91)
German language materials regarding the participation of Herbert Brün and Lesley Olson in a Music Festival entitled Ex Machina ‘90.

Education Folder 21: Important German Clippings
A couple of German language newspapers.

Education Folder 22: für Karlsruhe (1989)
German language materials, brochures, correspondence, etc. Approx. 100 pages.

Education Folder 23: Wolpe Festival, Chicago, Sept. 1993
Programs and notes and whatnot from the Stefan Wolpe Music Festival, which was Sept 21-24 at DePaul School of Music in Chicago. The Performers’ Workshop Ensemble performed The History and Future of Political Song.

Education Folder 24: [unlabeled -- a program from the 1993 meeting of the ASC]
Program, and some scraps of paper and correspondence of Herbert Brün, from the 1993 meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics. The Conference topic was “Cybernetics in the Art of Learning”. The program for November 5 includes the following:

Conversations on Art
Regency 2
Music, Herbert Brün, Susan Parenti, Don Share and Mark Sullivan in conversation What is the Meaning of Cybernetics to Art? , Annetta Padretti, Patricia Clough, Glenn Davidson, Anne Hayes, and Frank Galuszka in conversation.
Susan Parenti, moderator
This may be the session that was recorded by Maria Silva (Maria Silva Video #37)

Education Folder 25: Cybernetics Conference, Seattle, Dec. 1992
Materials about the conference and the new journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing.

Education Folder 26: Brazil, Bahia, August ‘92
Programs and newspaper clippings from Herbert Brün’s guest lecturing in Brazil 1992.

Education Folder 27: Milwaukee, Oct. 93 (Meet the Composer)
From an Event at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.

Education Folder 28: Herbert [Manila Folder from M.I.T.]
Many copies of a letter with a mini-script from Minhyong to Herbert Brün, addressed to him at the Gesundheit Institute in West Virginia.

Education Folder 29: 9am W. Virginia: Session 1
Schedule for a week of the first Summer School for Designing a Society, and some letters from Minhyong.

Education Folder 30: W. Virginia: Session 2
A ton of material that Herbert Brün kept from he first Summer School for Designing a Society. Approx. 75 pages.

Education Folder 31: Musik spricht für sich selbst.
A red cardstock covered booklet containing German language materials from concerts performed in German, including work by Mark Enslin, Sarah Wiseman. Circa 1990-1991.

Education Folder 32: Mozartem Salzburg 1989 re: Aacheu Haly
German language materials. Circa 1989. Approx. 50 pages.

Education Folder 33: Cybernetics, Felton, 1988
“Texts in Cybernetic Theory” An In-Depth Exploration of the Thought of Humberto R. Maturana, William T. Powers, Ernst Von Glasersfeld
A Conference of the American Society for Cybernetics
October 18-23, 1988 in Felton, California

Education Folder 34: Kassel – 1989-’90
German language materials, some of which apparently pre-dates the 1989-90 dates written on the folder. From some work of Herbert Brün’s in Germany. Approx. 125 pages, all German.

Education Folder 35: Cybernetics Conf, May 17-21 1995 – Chicago
Lots of classic texts from cybernetics: Heinz Von Foerster, Humberto Maturana, others.

Education Folder 36: Cincinnati, Steve Dawson: Brun Music May 13, 1995
Booklet entitled: The Percussion Music of Herbert Brün. A lecture-recital submitted to the Division of Performance Studies of the University of Cincinnati.

Education Folder 37: Akron, May 95 – S. Smith LINKS
Materials from a World Premiere at the University of Akron of The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays by Stuart Saunders Smith with some correspondence with Herbert Brün.

Education Folder 38: [unlabeled]
Materials from a Society for Composers conference at the University of Iowa, April 5-8, 1995.

Education Folder 39: Resume Construction – Rick.   — Gainesville, Fla. 1995
Materials from the Performers’ Workshop Ensemble residency at the University of Florida February 6-8, 1995.

Education Folder 40: Script for Josh Fendell
A script, by Herbert Brün ? 8-10 pages.

Education Folder 41: Williamsburg & Norwalk, 1995
Materials from a Mini-Conference of the American Society of Cybernetics “The Teaching of the Teaching of Cybernetics” featuring the Performers’ Workshop Ensemble. January 28-31, 1995. Old Dominion University at Norfolk, Virginia.

Education Folder 42: South Dakota Summer School, 1994
Herbert Brün’s materials from the 1994 Summer School for Designing a Society.

Education Folder 43: Stoneybrook Commission | Come, Scenario, & Go Spring 1994
Materials from a concert of Berbert Brün in NYC in Miller Theater.

Education Folder 44: Fall 95 – The Seminar
Materials from the Seminar for Experimental Composition, including poster, assignments, returns, bibliographies. Approx. 75 pages.

Education Folder 45: Discovery Course – Fall 1997
Materials from the Fall 1997 course MUSIC 199 at the University of Illinois. “Composing Music… and Beyond” (?) Course was apparently attended by William Gillespie, Tony Maculuso.

Education Folder 46: Seminar, Spring, 1997
Materials from the Seminar for Experimental Composition in the Spring 1997 semester, including a photocopy of much of an entire book.

Education Folder 47: Cybernetics File
Materials from the Annual Conference or the American Society for Cybernetics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. March 8-12, 1997.

Education Folder 48: Seminar Autumn 1996
Materials from the Fall 1996 Seminar for Experimental Composition.

Education Folder 49: Spring 1996 Seminar
Materials from the Spring 1996 Seminar for Experimental Composition.

Education Folder 50: Seminar, Autumn 1996
Materials from the Fall 1996 Seminar for Experimental Composition. Scores.

Education Folder 51: Nov. 95, PASIC, Phoenix, AZ
Materials from the Percussive Arts Society International Convention November 1, 1995 in Phoenix.

Education Folder 52: [unlabeled]
Some materials from an interdisciplinary course and other projects in 1995. Approx. 15 pages.

Education Folder 53: Cyberfast Fest
Materials from the Annual Conference or the American Society for Cybernetics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. March 8-12, 1997.

Education Folder 54: Summer 1996
Materials from the Summer School for Designing a Society 1996 at Dreamtime Village in West Lima, WI. Includes schedules and stuff. Approx. 25 pages.

Education Folder 55: Summer School  – Atlanta 1995
Materials from the Summer School for Designing a society 1995 in Atlanta. Includes schedules and scores. Approx. 40 pages.

Education Folder 56: Larry Richards
“The House of Change” (a childrens’ story by Larry Richards) and “Propositions on Cybernetics and Social Transformation. Circa 1995.

Education Folder 57: Summer School ‘95
Materials from the Summer School for Designing a society 1995 in Atlanta. Includes schedules, scripts, and notes and programs. Approx. 60 pages.

Education Folder 58: CYBERNETICS
Big white folder with materials from the conference “Cybernetics and Circularity: A Conference on the Seeds of Cybernetics in the Work of Heinz Von Foerster” May 17-21, 1995 at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Approx. 150 pages.

HBSoc Folder 1: Graphics Symposium
Materials compiled by Susan Parenti for the September 18, 2004 symposium at the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn.

HBSoc Folder 2: Graphics Catalogue Files
Old (and probably out of date) spreadsheets that list all of Herbert Brün’s graphics.

HBSoc Folder 3: Graphics exhibit at Music School
Materials compiled by Susan Parenti in 2007 for the display of some of Herbert Brün’s graphics at the Music Library at the College of Music at the University of Illinois.

HBSoc Folder 4: BRUN GRAPHICS -Kentler Glassman correspondence
Apparently these are the traces of some sort of negotiations around selling some of Herbert Brün’s graphics to the Kentler Gallery around 2004 (?).

HBSoc Folder 5: Graphics at Parkhouse – 2003 in Berlin / in Chicago Brunfest
There’s a small collection of materials assembled for the 2003 Brunfest around November 1 2003, related to graphics that were displayed on the walls at 122 Franklin St., which were also for sale.

HBSoc Folder 6: Lisa Fay’s Cataloguing of Graphics
Notes from Lisa Fay’s work in the 1990s organizing a master list of all the graphics.

HBSoc Folder 7: BRÜN SYMPOSIUM 2004 Papers
The papers that were presented at the September 18, 2004 symposium at the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn.
-letter to Susan from Michael Kowalski
-transcription of a panel Susan sat on at the symposium
-Brün in Context: A Virtual Panel –edited by Michael Kowalski
-Form and Meaning in Brün’s Lyrical Graphics –by Duane Palyka
-Symposium curator’s note – The Graphics, Music, and Writings of Herbert Brün:

Composition across Boundaries
-Between Two: Herbert Brun’s Computer Graphics –by Lenore Metrick
-If then, what now? Ethics and the “Committee of Criteria” –by Arun Chandra
-Panel Three – Brün’s music: the challenge of counter-intuitive composition

At loose ends with anti-communication –by Allen Otte
-Kentler promotional materials, announcement letters etc.

HBSoc Folder 8: Herbert’s writing on graphics: floating hierarchies, cooperation vs. competition, mutatis mutandis; analogy
Various traces of Herbert Brün’s ideas about his own graphics, compiled by Susan Parenti.

HBSoc Folder 9: Archival/Restoration Project 1998
Traces of a 1998 effort to fundraise for an archival project of preserving Herbert Brün’s graphics, on the year of his 80th birthday.

HBSoc Folder 10: BRUN, GRAPHICS – little notes, HBrün, others.
Seemingly random assortment of small sized pieces of paper somehow related to Herbert Brün’s graphics.

HBSoc Folder 11: BRUN, GRAPHICS, SALES, GIFTS, (FORMS)
A single sheet of paper that appears to be a sort of certificate of authenticity for those who receive one of Herbert Brün’s original graphics as a gift.

HBSoc Folder 12: Conservation Materials
Swathes and samples of various matting materials and other items relevant to conserving Herbert Brün’s graphics.

HBSoc Folder 13: ThankYous Sent
A small collection of receipt stubs or something, in connection to tanking people for supporting the 1998 effort to fundraise for an archival project of preserving Herbert Brün’s graphics.

HBSoc Folder 14: Notes and Correspondence – Not Involving the Sale of Graphics But Including the Thinking Preservation Proposal
Proposal-type language for putting Herbert Brün’s graphics in mylar for protection. Possibly written by Lisa Fay, in 1994.

HBSoc Folder 15: Uncorrect Size List Based on Catalogue
Old lists of graphics and the dimensions of the graphics — maybe 1990s?

HBSoc Folder 16: BRUN GRAPHICS 2001 – Jeff Glassman’s Ruminations
Scraps of Jeff Glassman ideas about distributing the graphics and books of Herbert Brün.

HBSoc Folder 17: BRUN GRAPHICS – TO DO 2001
Two sheets of paper collected and written on by Jeff Glassman in connection to the dissemination of Herbert Brün’s graphics.

HBSoc Folder 18: Correspondence involving the sale of Graphics
3 pages of printed paper from an interaction between Larry Richards and Susan Parenti in 1998 about the purchase of one of Herbert Brün’s graphics.

HBSoc Folder 19: Receipts of Sold Graphics – Jeff’s Account
The receipt or certificate for the graphic that Larry Richards bought. The Certificate is the same as those in HBSoc Folder 11 above.

HBSoc Folder 20: Herbert Pieces on CD’s – Composition List MUSIC
Lists of Herbert Brün’s published music, and to-be-published music including a list from 1988 of the status of his Opus works.

HBSoc Folder 21: Passports
Herbert Brün’s passports and his various applications for residency from Palestine on.

HBSoc Folder 22: Photos
A list of photos, and brief descriptions of them. No actual photos however, just the list.

HBSoc Folder 23: Various papers, unearthed by Archiving
Letters to and from Herbert Brün, to Salvatore Parenti, Stuart Saunders Smith, Jay Rozen, Paul Schroeder. A 1967 newspaper blurb on Brün visiting Ohio State.

HBSoc Folder 24: NON SEQUITUR, NOW
Lots of receipts and stuff, probably all for Herbert Brün’s Sighs in Disguise and Irresistible Observations, dating to 2001 and 2002.

HBSoc Folder 25: Non Sequitur
A single sheet of paper that was the promotional flyer for Herbert Brün’s 4 CDs released in 1998.

HBSoc Folder 26: Mish mash of Herbert’s stuff – graphics, archiving from last year Dec. 2006
Various stuff collected by Susan Parenti in a sort of scrap book between 2002 and 2005. Postcards and whatnot.

HBSoc Folder 27: Photos of Herbert
Collection of photos of Herbert Brün, the Performers’ Workshop Ensemble, the School for Designing a Society, and the Herbert Brün House (Parkhouse).

HBSoc Folder 28: Address Lists
Various stuff related to the fundraising letters Susan Parenti would write for the Herbert Brün Society from around 2003.

HBSoc Folder 29: Herbert’s Phone Numbers, collected
A thick stack of small pieces of paper containing phone numbers and formulations written by Herbert Brün.

HBSoc Folder 30: Herbert Brün Society
A list of people who wanted to be removed from the HBSoc listserv in February (2003?) and a list of Herbert Opus Compositions.

HBSoc Folder 31: Archive
Lots of notes from the first few years after Herbert Brün died. Discussions about negotiating archival work, materials, digitization, scores, etc. etc.

HBSoc Folder 32: 2007 Responses
Two bank statements for the Herbert Brün Society, June 2007 and Feb. 2008.

HBSoc Folder 33: 2007 Fundraising Letters
Materials that Susan Parenti used in 2007 to send fundraising letters for the Herbert Brün Society.

HBSoc Folder 34: form letters, sent 2006 -become member
Fundraising materials, proposals, lists of accomplishments going back to 2003 for the Herbert Brün Society.

HBSoc Folder 35: HBrun Soc – Summer 2006
Three pages of extremely sloppy notes by Susan Parenti.

HBSoc Folder 36: 2006 “Published Works of Herbert Brün”
Lots of copies of the flyer that promoted the sale of Herbert Brün’s CDs, books, etc.

HBSoc Folder 37: form letter, sent 2006
Lots of copies of the form letter that Susan Parenti sent out in 2006 to raise money for the Herbert Brün Society.

HBSoc Folder 38: 2005 Responses over 2003-4 society news
A collection of peoples’ responses to the Herbert Brün Society letter sent in 2005 to raise funds, disseminate info, etc.

HBSoc Folder 39: Form letters, sent 2005 (about 2003-4)
Lots of copies of the form letter that Susan Parenti sent out in 2005 to raise money for the Herbert Brün Society.

HBSoc Folder 40: sent 2006 Book reviews 2005
Two different book reviews, printed out, from Routledge, and Princeton.

HBSoc Folder 41: Postcard around 2 little books
Lots of drafts of the eventual postcard that was printed to promote Sighs in Disguise and Irresistible Observations. Also a Village Voice Review of When Music Resists Meaning.

HBSoc Folder 42: 2006 Report of Activities (2005) of H Brun Soc
[Empty Folder.]

HBSoc Folder 43: An analog is not that to which it is analog
Text by Herbert Brün that is relevant to understanding the graphics and analogic art.—

Contains a “Advanced Pages” of report on “Seminar on Interpersonal Relational Networks” Cuernavaca, July, 1971 – CIDOC – by Rodney Clough 9/20/71

Two things are striking about this text.

One: on page 17 – 19 the discussants get into the question of when to use the word “necessity” and at some point Brün asks (roughly) when is “necessity” and someone labelled “A” responds “necessity is something which you can not survive without.” Brün responds “Yes, that’s unbeatable.”

The reason this is interesting is because I had once heard that Cuernavaca was where Brün came to the distinction between need and necessity.

Two is the comment from Ivan Illich on page 23 in which Illich describes other meetings, with Paolo Freire, with Eric Fromm, in which a set of statements or words generated a discussion — Illich describes a “shared puzzlement” generated by all those including the group present, but goes on to say that the one initiated by Herbert Brün was stronger than the others.

Pre-PWE Folder 70 contains responses to a 5 page long assignment describing how to write “Unfortunately True” statements. The course was apparently offered through the BCL, as Psych 493 (and likely cross-listed) under the title “Seminar on Cognitive Studies”. Responses from 45 students were received, several dated Feb. 24, 1971.

Illich, Ivan. 1971. The Breakdown of Schools. Centro Intercultural de Documentacion (CIDOC) 1016. Apdo. 479. Cuernavaca, Mexico.

The contents of this cuaderno are almost exactly the same as those of Deschooling Society, published by Illich in 1970 & 1971 (New York: Harper & Row). The table of contents is reproduced below to show the overlap. Reproduced here to show the close proximity to the meetings with Brün, Von Foerster, Maturana, and Pask.

The above is the table of contents from this cuaderno.

The Below is the table of contents from Illich’s Deschooling Society (1970):

Introduction xix
1. Why We Must Disestablish School 1
2. Phenomenology of School 25
3. Ritualization of Progress 34
4. Institutional Spectrum 52
5. Irrational Consistencies 65
6. Learning Webs 72
7. Rebirth of Epimethan Man 105

Observe the similarity.

This is the document that was published by the Centro Intercultural de Documentacion following the 6 weeks of discussions between Herbert Brün, Iván Illich, Heinz Von Foerster, Humberto Maturana, and Gordon Pask.

Download Heinz Von Foerster’s Introduction to Cuaderno 1014.
(Select “Fit to Printable area” when printing this document. It is larger than 8.5″x11″)

The other elements of the cuaderno have been published elsewhere (see below).

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See also:

Brün, Herbert. (1970, 2004) Technology and the composer. In: Chandra, Arun (Ed.) 2004. When music resists meaning: The major writings of Herbert Brün. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

Illich, Iván. (1971) Education without school: How it can be done. Four Educational Networks. In: The New York Review of Books 15(12): 25-31. July 1, 1971. New York. (A Special Supplement).

Maturana, Humberto. (1970) Neurophysiology of cognition. In: Garvin, Paul (Ed.) 1970. Cognition: A Multiple View. New York: Spartan Books. Chapter 1, pp. 3-23.

(much of Maturana’s main points are replicated in his 1970 Biology of Cognition.)

Pask, Gordon. (1962) My prediction for 1984. In: Bannister, R. (Ed.) 1962. Prospect. London: Hutchinson.

Von Foerster, Heinz. (1970) Molecular ethology: An immodest proposal for semantic clarification. In: Von Foerster, Heinz. 2002. Understanding understanding. New York: Springer.

This folder contains material from all 1968 1969 and 1970 when the Heuristic course was offered throught the Chemistry Department. Yes, the syllabus for the Spring 1970 Heuristics show a course listing of Chem 199 for undergraduates, and Chem 490 for graduate students (see below). Pre-PWE Folder 53. There is no course roster for the 1970 course, though they exist for the 1968 and 1969 offerings in the Electronic Engineering Dept. It appears to be the first time that “desire statements” were requested as something resembling “false statements” as they later came to be known. A paper by a graduate student named Charles Bull entitled “Hueristics 1970 Desires Paper” [sic] for instance, includes a list entitled “Statements I would like to be true statements irrespective of proofs of their truth” (see below). Bull’s paper is part of a larger collection of “Desire Papers” all of which seem to be obeying some sort of request to re-format their desires as though they are condition or entities. That is, the phrase “I desire…” doesn’t appear, though the things listed are desired. A fuzzy typewritten text also appears, entitled “On Truth (And Anarchy)” which might be attributable to Brün (?) (see below) — anyone want to type it in more legibly?