Herbert Brün Society

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Old (and probably out of date) spreadsheets that list all of Herbert Brün’s graphics.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.—