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.
The work at the PS1 in 1976 [untitled] was created with two high tones at the upper pitch threshold of hearing. If you take a tone and gradually raise it up, at one point it disappears. Just below that point where we can't hear any higher, as sound approaches that threshold, I noticed that the threshold wasn't a line, it was an area. It's an interesting area because, in it, the sound is both there and not there.
The text panel of the work's drawing begins: 'Two high soft tones mixing at the upper threshold of hearing'. It is a clear example of the idea that the sound itself is not the work. You don't even hear it as sound. It is the idea of using sound to add a presence, growing a new place with a sound presence.
Max Neuhaus
Interview, by Gregory des Jardins, excerpts from a conversation between, Ischia, Summer 1995
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