2015
In his 2015 lecture ‘Acousmania’, given at the Sound Studies: Art, Experience, Politics conference at CRASSH, Cambridge, Steven Connor uses the work of Max Neuhaus to challenge the "audiomanic" tendencies within contemporary sound studies.
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The Critique of "Pure Sound": Connor argues that there is no such thing as "pure sound" or a "sound-world" that exists independently of human interpretation and other sensory modalities. He describes sound as "constitutively incomplete," always requiring completion by other senses or cognitive frameworks.
Max Neuhaus and the Threshold: Connor references Max Neuhaus (specifically his site-specific works like Times Square) as a primary example of how sound art is often framed as an "acousmatic" experience—one where the source is hidden to focus the listener on the sound itself.