1968
Group performance. Artists: MN (head shaved), Dick Higgins (head shaved), Alison Knowles (head shaver). Work(s): Dick Higgins, Danger Music No.2 (1962).
On May 9, 1968, Max Neuhaus performed with the Tone Roads ensemble in New York City, an event that occurred during the pivotal year he decided to abandon solo percussion performance to focus on sound installations.
Tone Roads was an influential avant-garde music collective founded by James Tenney, Malcolm Goldstein, and Philip Corner. The group focused on performing works by experimental composers such as Charles Ives, John Cage, and Morton Feldman.
This specific 1968 concert featured Neuhaus as a key performer during a period when he was still active as a virtuoso percussionist.
This performance took place just as Neuhaus was finishing his landmark album, Electronics & Percussion: Five Realizations (recorded in 1968 for Columbia Masterworks), which served as his final "summation" of concert-based work.