1967
DRIVE IN MISIC(S), SUNYAB 1967 - ARTPARK 1975
A sound Installation for people in Automobiles, Max Neuhaus 1966
(first Drive In sound installation)
1967
Poster Drive In Music, Max Neuhaus
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Artist in residence, Lewiston State Arts Park, Lewiston, NY
DRIVE IN MUSIC(S) 1967
A series of sound installations for people in automibiles, heard through car radios. In each of these works the listener determines the piece for himself and himself only. By choosing his routes and/or speeds he assembles these sounds, which have been placed in space, into time.
Max Neuhaus
Bibliography / Publications / 1967 - DRIVE IN MUSIC(S) by Max Neuhaus
Bibliography / Publications / 1997 - Max Neuhaus Note: Drive In (Music(s).
Bibliography / Publications / 2023 - Dylan Fareed, Max Neuhaus 'Drive in'.
It grew out of Drive-in Music. There I was thinking of placing sound in spatial configurations and letting people put it in their own time, building a work where there were different sounds broadcast in different areas, and letting people pass through it. But at the start of it I thought of it as music – that in fact the car going along the road in either direction 'played' the piece, the driver played the piece, a succession of sounds for each car according to its direction of passage and speed. The reason that it's not a place work is that there is only one path, so it becomes a passage for me. There it is a fixed succession.
Excerpt from: Bibliography / Interviews / 1995 - Interview Max Neuhaus, by Gregory des Jardins, excerpts from a conversation between, Ischia, (Summer)
