Max Neuhaus (musician)
Max Henry Neuhaus (born August 9, 1939 in Beaumont , Texas , † February 3, 2009 in Maratea , Italy ) was an American experimental musician, sound art pioneer , graphic artist and author .
Career
Max Henry Neuhaus was born in Texas but spent much of his childhood in Fishkill, New York, where his parents moved from 1942 to 1955 before settling in Houston , Texas. His father was a chemical engineer and his mother an amateur pianist.
At the age of 15 Neuhaus decided to become a musician and played jazz , rock 'n' roll and dance music. From 1957 to 1961 he studied together with Paul Prince at the Manhattan School of Music , where he took both his bachelor's and master's degrees . In 1958 he met John Cage and Edgard Varèse , in 1961 Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez . In 1962 Neuhaus took part in a Darmstadt summer course with Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti , Henri Pousseur and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He met Bruno Maderna , Stefan Wolpe , Sylvano Bussotti , Malcolm Goldstein , David Tudor and Philip Corner and worked with Morton Feldman on The King of Denmark . He also worked with the Judson Dance Theater .
From 1962, Max Neuhaus went on tour with Pierre Boulez, and later with Karlheinz Stockhausen as a percussion soloist . In 1964 and 1965 Neuhaus gave solo concerts at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan . This was followed by a solo tour through various European capitals.
After an internship at the Bell Laboratories , Neuhaus began creating sound installations in 1965 after 14 years as a successful musician and started a second career as a sound artist. He was supported by a Martha Baird Rockefeller Scholarship for Music, coupled with an artist in residence program from the University of Chicago .
Sound works
From 1966 Neuhaus started with sound art . Well-known works are Listen (1966–76), Public Supply (1966), Drive-In Music (1966–67), Water Whistle (1971–74), and Times Square (1977). Sound works are non-visual works of art that are based on electronically generated sounds from an invisible source at a specific location.
In 1967 Neuhaus realized the first electroacoustic installation Drive-in Music in Buffalo, and then coined the term sound installation, which is used today, to describe works that have neither a beginning nor an end and whose structure unfolds more in space than in time. Basically, he designs his sound installations for a certain room and derives the design principles from its specifics.
His best-known and least aware of his work is Times Square . It is placed at the end of a sidewalk in Manhattan, at the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, between 45th and south of 46th Street, without a name or any other marking . The installation can be discovered by the attentive visitor. Time Piece Beacon and Times Square are the only permanent installations in New York and in America at all. The sound installation was built from 1977 to 1992, only to be rebuilt in 2002 as a permanent work. The Sounds, a 1977 Times Square cacophony, can now be heard 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
"It doesn't exist in time. I've taken sound out of time and made it into an entity. "
Neuhaus gave sound as an autonomous medium within contemporary art. The Auracle project is a network distributed over the Internet that is controlled by the voice. The first sound collage was created in 1966, triggered by phone calls to a New York radio station. The concept was further developed and in 1977 a two hour radio program with 10,000 people participating with their voice was broadcast. In 1977 Neuhaus established a network with Radio Net in which 190 radio stations participated.
Auracle was inaugurated in 2004 at the Donaueschinger Musiktage .
Sound installations
- 1977: documenta 6 , Kassel, sound sculpture in the Karlsaue
- 1992: documenta 9 , Kassel Three to One , permanent installation in the AOK building, Friedrichplatz 14 in Kassel
- 1999: 48th Biennale di Venezia Intersection I
- 1999: Suspended Sound Line , selected by Art in Public Space Bern
- 2002: Permanent installation Times Square , New York
- 2003: Time Piece Graz in the Kunsthaus Graz as a permanent installation
- 2007: Sound installation for the Stommeln synagogue
- 2009: Time piece Beacon , in the slide: Beacon
drawings
Neuhaus also made drawings on transparent paper, shimmering and reflective. Neuhaus draws in primary colors with colored pencils. The drawings are neither phonetic transcriptions nor notes. His syllables are neither a picture nor a piece of music. The drawings are based on the sound work.
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Neuhaus in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bruce Weber, Nytimesː Max Neuhaus, Who Made Aural Artwork, Dies at 69, accessed on August 7, 2014 (English)
- ↑ Megan Murphː Max Neuhaus and the musical avant-garde, page 29 ( Memento of the original dated August 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on August 7, 2014 (English)
- ↑ Max Neuhaus Bibliography ( Memento of the original dated August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on August 7, 2014 (English)
- ↑ Medienkunstnetzwerkː biography of Max Neuhaus , accessed on August 7, 2014.
- ^ Dia Art Foundationː Times Square , accessed August 7, 2014.
- ↑ from Article Nerd New York Max Neuhaus Times Square
- ^ Auracle , accessed August 7, 2014.
- ^ Auracle Further Reading , accessed August 7, 2014.
- ↑ Documentaforumː Three to One - sound installation in the AOK by Max Neuhaus , accessed on August 7, 2014.
- ^ Synagogue Stommelnː Max Neuhaus • Time Piece Stommeln , accessed on August 7, 2014.
- ↑ Rozalia Jovanovicː Hear, Here: Exploring the Max Neuhaus Installation at Dia: Beacon accessed on August 7, 2014 (English)
- ↑ Stuart Morgan, Friezeː Max Neuhaus ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on August 7, 2014 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neuhaus, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neuhaus, Max Henry (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American experimental musician, sound art pioneer, graphic artist, and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beaumont , Texas |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 3, 2009 |
| Place of death | Maratea , Italy |