1978
SIREN project, 1978

Image: Max Neuhaus, Sound Text Siren

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In the 1980's Neuhaus took on the problem of redesigning the sounds of emergency-vehicle sirens. The project's focuses were to make sounds that were locatable in an urban environment so people would know what to do when they heard one, to allow drivers of emergency vehicles to hear one another when their sirens were on so they wouldn't run into each other, and to make sounds we could live with – which would have authority without being authoritarian.