Max Neuhaus Was Renowned for His Interpretation of Contemporary

Max Neuhaus was renowned for his primary medium into the field of interpretation of contemporary music contemporary art. while still in his twenties. In the early sixties, he toured America as a He has continued his activities in music percussion soloist and gave solo recitals with his Networks or Broadcast Works, at Carnegie Hall and in European virtual architectures which act as forums capitals. open to anyone for the evolution of new musics. In the first Public Supply in The world of the percussionist is one 1966, he combined a radio station with focused on sound timbre; Neuhaus the telephone network and created a traveled with one thousand kilos of two-way public aural space twenty miles percussion instruments to perform his in diameter encompassing New York solo repertoire. He extended this palette City, where any inhabitant could join a of sound color by inventing several early live dialogue with sound by making a electro-acoustic instruments. His solo phone call. Later, in 1977 with Radio album recorded for Columbia Net, he formed a nationwide network Masterworks in 1968 stands as one of with 190 radio stations. The current the first examples of what is now called project, Auracle, constructs a twenty- live electronic music. four hour a day global entity for live interaction with sound over the Internet. Neuhaus went on to pioneer artistic activities outside conventional cultural In his Moment works, a series of large contexts and began to realize sound scale sound works for whole works anonymously in public places, communities, he utilizes the cessation of developing art forms of his own. Utilizing sound to create a periodic sense of his sense of sound and people's reactions silence throughout the community, both to it gained after fourteen years as a marking time and creating reflective musician, he began to make sound moments. The most recent of these is a works which were neither music nor realization for the city of Graz events and coined the term 'sound commissioned by the Landesmuseum installation' to describe them. In these Joanneum. works without beginning or end, the sounds were placed in space rather than Over the last four decades, he has in time. Starting from the premise that created a large number of sound works our sense of place depends on what we for various environments, including hear, as well as on what we see, he permanent works in the United States utilized a given social and aural context (Times Square in New York and the as a foundation to build a new perception Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago) of place with sound. With the realization and Europe (CAPC Musée d'Art of these non-visual artworks for Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; the museums in America and Europe, he AOK Building, Kassel, Germany; the became the first to extend sound as a Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Italy; and the www.max-neuhaus.info/soundworks Page 1 of 2 Kunsthaus Graz, Austria), along with His interests are diverse. He designs the numerous short-term works in museums sound generation and projection systems and exhibitions (the Museum of Modern which realize his work, himself. He has Art, the Whitney Museum of American originated new concepts of aural urban Art, and the Clocktower in New York design, and utilized his knowledge of City; ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la sound technology and the psychology of Ville de Paris, the Centre National d'Art sound to design a more humane and Contemporain, Grenoble, France; the safer set of sounds for emergency Kunsthalle Basel and the Kunsthalle vehicles. He has begun a ten-volume Bern, Switzerland; Documenta 6 and 9, series of retrospective books on his Kassel, Germany; and the Venice oeuvre with the publication of Max Biennale, Italy), and numerous one- Neuhaus: Sound Works, vols. I-III person exhibitions of his drawings. (Ostfildern-Stuttgart: Cantz, 1994). www.max-neuhaus.info/soundworks Page 2 of 2.

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