Life
Brown was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, and first devoted himself to playing jazz. He initially considered a career in engineering, and enrolled for engineering and mathematics at Northeastern University (1944–45). Between 1946 and 1950 he was a student at Schillinger House in Boston, which is now The Berklee College of Music. Brown had private instruction in trumpet and composition. He claims to have been influenced by artists of New York School, such as Jackson Pollock and Alexander Calder. John Cage invited Brown to leave Denver and join him for the Project for Music for Magnetic Tape in New York. Brown was an editor and recording engineer for Capitol Records (1955–60) and producer for Mainstream-Time Records (1960–73).
Brown's contact to Cage exposed David Tudor to some of Brown's early piano works, and this connection lead to his music being performed in Darmstadt and Donaueschingen. Composers like Pierre Boulez and Bruno Maderna heard his music, and promoted his music, so that Brown's music was starting to be published, and performed more.
Brown died in 2002 of cancer, in Rye, New York.
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