1967
This Buffalo Evening News article from October 21, 1967, serves as a follow-up to the city-wide avant-garde festival In City, Buffalo. Organized by fellow sound pioneer Maryanne Amacher, the event featured Max Neuhaus in a performance that explicitly linked sound art with the city's grand old architecture.
Unlike traditional indoor concerts, this event utilized the physical structures of Buffalo—including its parks and historic buildings—as resonant bodies or visual anchors for sound.
Neuhaus showcased Drive-In Music, where he installed 20 low-power radio transmitters along Lincoln Parkway. This transformed the drive toward the Albright-Knox Art Gallery into a choreographed sonic experience.
The article highlights a transition from music as a "performance for an audience" to sound as an "environmental feature." By honoring architecture through sound.