Sound Work Location: CNAC, Magasin, Grenoble, France. Dimensions: 2 x 60 x 18 meters
Image: Max Neuhaus Working Drawings,
Magazin General- 1st Try, Sound Line, 1987, Colored pencil on paper - 30x42 cm. Collection: The Estate of Max Neuhaus
-Crédit photographique : Blaise Adilon
Courtesy photo: Joselyn Wolff Gallerie
MNE-DRAW Sound Line CNAC.Grenoble 1983.pdf
Some are documents made in the process of building a sound work, others are descriptions of a sound work's processes or techniques. Those marked with an asterisk are published in Max Neuhaus, Sound Works, Volume II, (Ostfildern: Cantz, 1994)
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Using the barest of descriptive styles, Neuhaus in his drawings records the mute data of the landscapes. The lines, the curves, and the grey shading do not offer an ideal equivalent, but they do enable us to measure the parameters of the landscapes such as we shall never see them. Finally, the drawings do not prescribe any attitudes for the beholder to take, nor do they offer directions for use or describe experience. They testify to the essentially irreducible character of the work, closing the illusion of reproduction and insisting on the work's own demands: hearing the place in the landscape, the place of the world.
Except from: Alain Cueff, Missing beginning.
