Herbert Brun, philosopher, poet, and graphic artist, as well as composer, who contributed many pieces of electronic and computer music over four decades. He studied composition and conducted research on the application of electro-acoustics and electronic methods of sound production to the compositional process.

Brün wrote and spoke incisively on the social and political significance of composition and on the tendencies of language to preempt thought.

1936	Shifted to Palestine, where he studied piano and composition at the Jerusalem Conservatory and then with Stefan Wolpe, Eli Friedman, and Frank Pelleg.
1948 to 1950	Further education at Tanglewood,Boston and Columbia University,New York.
1955 to 1961	Worked as a composer and conducted research concerning electro-acoustics with regard to possibilities for musical composition in Paris, WDR,Cologne and at the Siemens studio (Munich). Actively gave lectures and seminars emphasizing the function of music in society, and did a series of broadcasts on contemporary music.
1962	Joined as a faculty at the University of Illinois and began research on composition with computers, which resulted in pieces for tape and instruments, tape alone and graphics.
1964	Composed ‘Futility’ with the MUSICOMP algorithmic software for the mainframe computer.
1966	Composed ‘Non Sequitur VI’ with the same apparatus.
late 1960s	Created his own programs in FORTRAN which reflected an interest in the design of processes, rather than in specifying particular musical outcomes.
1968	Composed ‘Infraudibles’ and ‘Mutatis Mutandis’, which created computer generated graphics that could be read as musical scores.
1968	Participated in ‘Cybernetic Serendipity’,ICA,London.
1968 to 1974	Collaborated with Heinz von Foerster on several interdisciplinary courses in heuristics and cybernetics at the Biological Computer Laboratory.
1987	Became Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois faculty.
1969 to 1970	Guest Professorship at the Ohio State University.
1972	Started composing the ‘Sawdust’ series where new sounds were generated by linking and merging tiny portions of waveform.
1977	Recieved prize from the International Society of Bassists.
1978	Residency at the Hochschule der Kunst and Technische Universtat, Berlin.
1989	Residency at the Gesamthochschule, Kassel.
1980 onwards	Toured and taught with the Performers’ Workshop Ensemble, a group he founded.
1993	Recieved the Norbert Wiener medal from the American Society for Cybernetics.
1993	Helped found the School for Designing Society (an experimental teaching “lab” for connecting compositional thinking with social change) and taught there till his death.
1999	Received an Honorary Doctorate from the Goethe-Universität at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, for his activities as composer, teacher and thinker.
2004	When Music Resists Meaning: The Major Writings of Herbert Brun , was released by the Wesleyan University Press.