Max Neuhaus

1968
Max Neuhaus, Telephone Access, 1968

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I installed ten telephone lines at the station and asked people to call in during a two-hour period with whatever sounds they wanted. It created a live sound collage made with the participation of anybody within a twenty-mile radius the ten million people who were living there. These Networks gradually progressed into a series of radio/telephone events, in different cities. In the middle of the seventies. Max Neuhaus


Student in residence, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey.

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when you start talking about the broadcast/telephone networks, you could reference the 90s instead of the 60s. Believe me, until the 90s, no one knew what a network was.
Max Neuhaus
(Archive Correspondence, 1995)

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