1969
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James Tenney's article “Computer Music Experiences” (1969) is a significant document on his early work in computer sound synthesis at Bell Labs. Tenney and Max Neuhaus were contemporaries and colleagues in the experimental music scene, collaborating on various projects.
Key connections between James Tenney and Max Neuhaus:
- Collaborators They performed together in New York City in the 1960s, including in the Tone Roads Chamber Ensemble.
- Avant-Garde Events Neuhaus, Philip Corner, and Tenney performed works by avant-garde composers like Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mauricio Kagel, and John Cage in Chicago in 1965.
- Postal Pieces Tenney dedicated one of his "Postal Pieces" to Max Neuhaus, a work titled "MAXIMUSIC [perc] for Max Neuhaus". The score for this piece was a postcard with a simple instruction, which for Neuhaus involved the description of "the sound of a motorbike on the freeway, heard from afar on a damp June evening".