Early Eye 1342-2

Name: Ragnar Digital, LLC
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Herbert Brün

1973

Plotter Drawing

11"x26"
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil.

Description

Early Eye by Herbert Brün is an example of his belief that computer graphics, like music, could be composed as scores of structure and variation.

Brün was best known for his computer music, composed with his program Sawdust. Developed in the late 1960s, it generated sound by defining pitch, loudness, and timbre through coded instructions. In the early 1970s, he began producing computer graphics that extended the same compositional principles into visual form.

Early Eye is part of Eyes, a subset of Brün’s graphics program See. The Eyes program was only 63 lines of Fortran and could generate drawings from a seed number entered at the start. In the _Early Eye _plotter drawing, lines cluster into arcs that fan out across the page, building layered forms that recall the movement of sound waves. The surrounding blank space amplifies this effect, projecting an image of silence around noise.