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Exhibition:
September 10 - October 16, 2004
Opening: Friday, September 10, 6 - 9 P.M.
Concert:
Friday, September 17, 8:00 P.M.
Keith Moore, music curator
produced in conjunction with the ThreeTwo Festival,
Keith Moore, Taimur Sullivan and Elizabeth Adams, directors
Symposium:
Saturday, September 18, 1:30 - 9:30 P.M.
Michael Kowalski, symposium curator
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Photo credit: Susan Barron
Herbert
Brün
Herbert Brün was born in Berlin in 1918 and died in Urbana, Illinois
in 2000. From 1936 to 1948 he lived in Palestine, where he studied composition
with Stefan Wolpe, Eli Friedman, and Frank Pelleg. From 1955 to
1961 he pursued research in electro-acoustic composition in Paris, Cologne,
and Munich. In 1962 Brün was invited by computer-music pioneer
Lejaren Hiller to join the faculty of the University of Illinois, where
he continued his work in electronic music and began research on the
use of computers in composition, both musical and visual. In addition
to a large body of music for traditional instruments, tape and instruments,
tape alone, and computer-generated graphics for diverse interpreters,
Brün produced several volumes of essays and aphorisms dealing with
the social and political significance of composition and language. When
Music Resists Meaning, a collection of his major writings edited
by Arun Chandra, was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2004.
Exhibition
A selection of over thirty of Brün's pioneering computer-generated
drawings from the 1960's through the 1990's will be on exhibit at the
gallery, including several of the most important graphics intended for
use as musical scores. This marks the first major exhibition of Brün
graphics in New York City.
Concert
On Friday, September 17, a concert performance of several of Brün's
pioneering graphic musical scores will be presented at the gallery,
featuring performances by virtuoso percussionist Allen Otte and members
of the New York-based ThreeTwo Festival, directed by Keith Moore, Taimur
Sullivan, and Elizabeth Adams. The entire concert is under the
music direction of Keith Moore.
Symposium
On Saturday, September 18, the gallery will host an eight-hour symposium
devoted to Brün's drawings, music, political philosophy, and his
use of computers in composition. The symposium will focus on introducing
New York artists, musicians, critics, and computer-art experimenters
to the full spectrum of Brün's work, including his rich body of
writings on music, performance, politics, and language. A series
of four panel discussions will alternate with breaks during which recordings
will be played of several larger musical works which could not be included
in the previous evening's concert.
The philosophical, aesthetic, and technical problems posed by Brün's
work still have a remarkable resonance for any artist for whom the notions
"experiment", "explore", "stipulate",
"communicate", and "compose" retain their savor.
The ultimate goal of the exhibition, concert, and seminar is to
examine the links between problems posed by this body of work and the
concerns of contemporary composers of all manner of texts. |
