Communion with sound has always been bound by time. Meaning in speech and music appears only as their sound events unfold word by word, phrase by phrase, from moment to moment.
My Place works share a different fundamental idea – that of removing sound from time and setting it, instead, in place.
Max Neuhaus, 2001
Sound Work Location: Jay Street Subway Station, Dimensions: 30 x 14 x 5 meters.
Sound Work reference: Rooms, P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York City,
Dimensions: 10 x 12 x 11 meters; 11 x 15 x 11 meters.
Sound Work location: Abby Aldrich Sculpture Garden, Museum of Modern Art, Dimensions: 60 x 20 meters
Note: Underground Music(s) II, was the original title of Neuhaus's subsonic sound work in the sculpture garden of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Sound Work Location: Old US Customs House Rotunda, New York City, Dimensions: elliptical rotunda, 20 x 60 x 15 meters.
Sound Work References: Collection: Since 2002, Dia Art Foundation, New York Location: Pedestrian island between 46th and 45th Streets, New York City Dimensions: triangle 6 x 12 meters Proposed: -Underground Music(s) 1973
Sound Work Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dimensions: 10 x 6 x 3 meters
Sound Work reference: The Clocktower, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York City, Dimensions: 10 x 10 x 11 meters. Extant: Fall, 1979
Sound Work Location: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Dimensions: 4 x 5 x 18 meters
Proposed: 1978
Extant: 1979–1989
Sound Work Location: Botanical Garden, St. Paul, Minnesota, Dimensions: rotunda 30 x 20 meters
Sound Work Reference: Location: Villa Celle, Pistoia, Italy. Dimensions: 120 x 60 meters
Sound Work References: Location: Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Dimensions: 8 x 16 x 3 meters
Sound Work Location: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, Dimensions: 10 x 15 x 4 meters
Sound Work Location: Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland.
Dimensions: 22 x 11 x 10 meters. Extant: October 2 - November 6, 1983
Sound Work Location: Pedestrian tunnel, Parc Lullin, Dimensions: 2 x 60 x 2 meters
Sound Work Location: Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva, Switzerland, Dimensions: 4 x 5 x 3 meters
Sound Work Location: Locmine, France, Dimensions: 120 x 200 meters, Proposed: 1985
Sound Work reference: Roaring Fork River, Aspen, Colorado, Dimensions: 20 x 30 meters
Extant: Summer–Fall, 1988
Sound Work Location: CNAC, Magasin, Grenoble, France. Dimensions: 2 x 60 x 18 meters
Sound Work Location: Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France, Dimensions: 8 x 16 x 5 meters
Sound Work Exhibition: Einleuchten, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany Dimensions: 14 x 8 x 11 meters; 14 x 8 x 11 meters
Sound Work Location: Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany, Dimensions: 3 x 2 x 3 meters
Location: Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy, Dimensions: 7 x 6 x 4 meters; 7 x 6 x 4 meters;
6 x 6 x 4 meters
Exhibition: Weg der Schweiz, Lake Luzern, Switzerland. Dimensions: 150 x 100 meters
Sound Work Location: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, Dimensions: 6 x 8 x 3 meters
Sound Work Location: Galleria Giorgio Persano, Milan, Italy, Dimensions: 5 x 5 x 4 meters
Sound work references: From a proposal for an unrealized work
Sound Work Location: AOK Building, Friedrichplatz 14, Kassel, Germany Dimensions: 7 x 16 x 3 meters; 7 x 16 x 3 meters; 7 x 16 x 3 meters Documenta, Accessible from 8 am to 4 pm, Monday through Friday
Location: Musée d'Art Moderne, Bordeaux, France, Dimensions: 3 x 10 x 4 meters; 3 x 10 x 4 meters
'Two passages, bearing in between shadow and daylight, identical in form , diverging in spirit, 1993 has now been restored.' December 2024
Sound work references: Collection: Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Location: Piazza di Castello. Dimensions: 8 x 4 x 2 meters; 8 x 4 x 2 meters
Sound Work Reference: Collection: Swisscom, Worblaufen-Bern, Switzerland. Dimensions: 6 x 6 x 100 meters
Location: Lorrainestrasse 1, Bern, Switzerland. Dimensions: 3 x 30 meters
- First Sound Work Place (Prototype -non site-specific-) by Max Neuhaus.
Sound Work Location: Château de la Napoule, Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France.Dimensions: 4 x 5 meters.
Location: Park, Promenade du Pin, Geneva, Switzerland.(Across from entrance to the Cabinet du Stampe) Dimensions: 2.6 x 10 meters. Collection: Fonds Contonal d'Art Contemporian, Geneva.
Sound Work Location: Saint Luc, Switzerland, Dimensions: 1.5 x 1.5 meters.
Proposal for the park on the Novartis Campus- Switzerland
Unrealized Proposal
-Unrealized Proposal
Sound work references: Unrealized
Sound Work Location: Conrad-Eybesfeld, Lebring, Austria, Dimensions: 4 x 5 meters
Sound Work Location: The Menil Collection, Houston, Dimensions: 4 x 4 meters.
-Unrealized propose for Fundação de Serralves