2002
- La Promenade du Pin measures approximately 3 x 10 meters. The tapered sides always protrude approximately 15 meters, varying slightly depending on the volume of the work. La Promenade du Pin is 10 meters long instead of 15 due to the topography of the terrain: it is located on a plateau. The width of these works is determined by the number of speaker modules I use: each is 1.3 meters.
- Each of these works is an invisible block of sound. Listeners who enter are enveloped in a tranquil soundscape. When they leave, the sound fades. The listening zones are square, five meters on a side. On one axis, the sound stops abruptly (within a few centimeters), while on the other, it gradually fades.
- A public park near the center of Geneva - literally an elevated square block of woods with paths, bordered by streets running twenty feet below its edges.
-Neuhaus chose an isolated clearing at a high point of the park as the site. Of central interest to him is the site's inherent contradiction - visually one is in a clearing in the woods, aurally one is in the center of a city.
- In 1998 he invented an underground sound source which allows the construction of invisible, highly focused sound fields. These form clearly defined zones where the sound is heard as coming from around and above the listener even though it is actually emanating from narrow slots in the ground. As these slots are usually assumed to be for water drainage, the source of sound 'disappears'.
Building a space with sound is very much more than simply 'playing' a sound there. Neuhaus must construct sound fields which articulate the space he is building for the listener's ear. In addition, the sources of sound cannot be visible. If they are, in the context of sculpture, they become part of the artwork.
'A work of mine is the result of the interaction between sound and site, rather than being a sound in a site or a site with sound. It is more than site specific: the site is the physical element of the work, what I make the work out of by touching it with sound'.