Location: GIBB Campus, Lorrainestrasse 1, Bern.
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Suspended Sound Line Invite (Back)
In mid-1999, the millennium project's sponsor withdrew claiming new administrative policies and a focus on sports rather than culture. In May of 1999 Neuhaus' commission from Kunst im ˆffentlichen Raum, Stadt Bern, Suspended Sound Line, was inaugurated on the GIBB Campus at Lorrianstrassee 1-5.
Photo Max Neuhaus Bern 1999 Ph Unknow
MNE-PHOTOS Suspended Line Bern 1999.pdf
The invisible electronic sound sources were installed during the bridge’s construction, and Neuhaus used them to create sonorities with his ears tuned to existing local sounds, a process in which his intuitive skills intimately merge with accumulated practice.
Drawing:Suspended Sound Line, 1999Colored pencil on paper64 x 70 cm; 64 x 52 cm
MNE-DRAW Suspended Sound Line Bern, 1999.
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Max Neuhaus' drawing for Suspended Sound Line has a text which sounds / reads like a haiku, in its combination of simplicity and suggestion.
Excerpt from the text: Michael Tarantino, Two Passages, Oxford, December 1998
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A footbridge
lined with
Sound
Partitioned into
abutting regions
Alternating
sound entities
Reciprocating
open with dense
Tension with relaxation
m. n.
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