Sound Work Location: Galleria Giorgio Persano, Milan, Italy, Dimensions: 5 x 5 x 4 meters
...In these works the visitor is placed in a position of seeking the source of dynamic and shifting sound topographies. In the first version, the clicking sound switched location as one approached it, and in the second, the sound appeared and disappeared indeterminately as one moved around. They are aural labyrinths.
Max Neuhaus
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...Was the second elusive source work about getting lost?
MN: And getting back. These elusive source works are places also. They take you on a journey, but it's a journey in a place. It's such a different way of defining a place than with a sound texture. With all the other pieces we've begun to put some walls around this idea of place. This work stretches the definition we've established, but then again it doesn't - it is place, it is a labyrinth.
These works are all about moving you into a new place. I think the consistent thing, then, we keep coming back to is that it's not the sound that's the work in these sound works; it's sound as a vehicle for getting something to happen within yourself. m.n.
Excerpt from: Max Neuhaus and Ulrich Loock, "A Conversation Between Max Neuhaus and Ulrich Loock: Milan, March 25, 1990
Catalog:https://www.giorgiopersano.org/mostra/infinite-lines-from-elusive-sources-2/
Web article:
https://journals.openedition.org/perspective/29696