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The fourth in a series of four CDs containing the complete works of Herbert Brun, one of the remarkable musical personalities of the 20th century. This CD contains Brun's music with sounds generated largely by his computer program 'Sawdust', which he wrote in the 1970s. The compositions are 'Dust' (1976), with relatively simple sounds; 'More Dust' (1977), increasingly complex; 'Dustiny' (1978), 'A Mere Ripple' (1979), described by Brun as one sequence "varied fifty-six times, with exclamatory admonishments to itself thrown in and between"; 'U-TURN-TO' (1980), described by Brun as "three ear training gestures, mere shadows of what once they had been stubbornly keep dancing, each gradually accumulating its corps de ballet ..."; 'More Dust with percussion' (1977), which parallels gestures in percussion and electronics, performed by Percussion Group Cincinnati; and 'i toLD You so!' (1981), in which rapid-fire gestures parody human speech.