fledgling Computer Music Association get started in the middle 1970s, helping host conferences at the University of Illinois in 1975, and again in 1987. He was invited to give the keynote address at their annual conference in 1985. Brün was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Goethe University Frankfurt (1999), and the Norbert Wiener medal from the American Society for Cybernetics in 1993. He helped found the School for Designing a Society in 1993 and taught there through the year 2000. His awards and honors also include the SEAMUS Award for Lifelong Achievement (2000), and a prize from the International Society of Bassists (1977). In 1969, he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ohio State University. He was one of two participants from the United States invited by UNESCO to their symposium Music and Technology (1970). He was Guest Professor invited jointly by the Hochschule der Künste and the Technische Universität Berlin (1978); Composer in residence at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (May 1982); Composer in Residence at the University of Missouri (Kansas City) (1983); and Guest Composer at the annual convention of the Percussive Arts Society, St. Louis (1987). Brün's students at the University of Illinois were referred to, often pejoratively, as Brünettes. His notable students include Stuart Saunders Smith. Life Herbert Brün was married to Marianne Brün, an intellectual, writer, and teacher of social theory; she was the daughter of the famous German actors Fritz Kortner and Johanna Hofer. Selected works Five Pieces for piano, Op.1 (1940–45) Sonatina for viola alone, Op.12 (1950) String Quartet No.2 (1957) Anepigraphe (1958) (tape alone) Klange unterwegs ('Wayfaring Sounds') (1962) (tape alone) Trio, for flute, double-bass, and percussion (1964) Futility 1964 (tape alone) Sonoriferous Loops (1964) (chamber ensemble and tape) Infraudibles (1968/1984) (optional chamber ensemble and tape) Piece of Prose (1972) (tape alone) Dust (1976) (SAWDUST No. 1) (tape alone) More Dust (1977) (SAWDUST No. 2) (optional percussion and tape) Dustiny (1978) (SAWDUST No. 3) (tape alone) A Mere Ripple (1979) (SAWDUST No. 4) (tape alone) U-TURN-TO (1980) (SAWDUST No. 5) (tape alone) I toLD YOU so! (1981) (SAWDUST No. 6) (tape alone) Sentences Now Open Wide (SNOW) (1984) on stilts among ducks (1996) (viola and tape) Publications Brün, Herbert. Über Musik und zum Computer. Karlsruhe: G. Braun, 1971. Accompanied by a 10-inch LP recording. Computer-generated graphics. Computer Music Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, summer, 1981. Brün, Herbert. My Words and Where I