1977
"My impetus as a performer for the first work was the mental and manual challenge of assembling a piece instantaneously from unknowable material. The growth of these broadcast ideas over the past thirteen years has been, among other things, the investigation of the processes involved -from the first manual mixer of WBAr's work to the implementation of general processes in the form of electronic realization systems in Radio Net of 1977."
"Other ideas were also inherent from the beginning; an interest in geographic scale (two thousand square miles in Public Supply and three million square miles in Radio Net), the setting in motion of a musical activity with large and diversitied groups of people (thirty thousand in Public Supply and four million in Radio Net), the breaking away from music's rigid and antiquated presentation format of the concert hall and the memories of it, which recordings form), making a piece of music without location and unpreservable.'
The future ideas center on language (that area of sounds with which we function dally, and to which we have, therefore, a highly developed listening acuity. They involve removing its verbal content and transforming it into something we can perceive simply as sound. The works will move from being one time events to becoming regulary reoccurring programs, forming aural meeting places independent of geography."
Max Neuhaus