1969
-Six Sound Oriented Pieces for Situations Other Than That of the Concert Hall-
Listen, Public Supply, Bi-produit, American Can, Drive in Music, Telephon Acces. Source: Music of the Avant-garde.
"A Max Sampler" Author: Max Neuhaus, first published 1971 in:
In THE SOURCE BOOK: Music of the Avant Garde, 1966‐1973 edited by Douglas Kahn and Larry Austin
Music of the Avant-garde, 1966–1973, by Larry Austin (Editor), Douglas Kahn (Editor), Nilendra Gurusinghe (Editor), 1st Edition, University of California Press
Co‐Editor, The Source Book, 2011
Source: Music of the Avant-garde, 1966–1973: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1png6w
A "Max Sampler" is a compilation of six sound-oriented pieces by Max Neuhaus that was published in a 1969 issue of the journal
Source: Music of the Avant-garde. The collection, edited by Larry Austin, documents works that moved beyond the traditional concert hall and into public spaces.
Works included in "A Max Sampler"
- Listen
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A work that encourages people to actively listen to their environment, described by Neuhaus as a way of "re-training a relationship to sound".
- Public Supply
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A project that used a radio network and telephone lines as a medium for sound, with the goal of creating a "nonverbal dialogue" for listeners.
- Bi-produit© Copyright Neuhaus Estate
A piece where a sound is created as a "by-product" of another activity.
- American Can
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A piece first performed in 1966 that involved distributing a large number of products from the American Can Company on a hard surface for participants to interact with, creating sound.
- Drive in Music
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One of Neuhaus's first site-specific sound installations (1967-1968), in which he placed low-power radio transmitters along a road for drivers to hear over their car radios.
- Telephon Acces
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An experimental piece that used the telephone network as a medium for sound, allowing people to "sonically walk in from any telephone".