Max Neuhaus

1999
SUSPENDED SOUND LINE by Max Neuhaus. Collection: Kunst im öffentlichen Raum die Stadt Bern, Extant: 1999–Present

Location: GIBB Campus, Lorrainestrasse 1, Bern.
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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.

 

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MNE-PHOTOS Suspended Line Bern 1999.pdf

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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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Drawings exhibition. Solo show, Max Neuhaus – Sound Drawings suns.works gallerie, Zürich, May 5 - June 4, 2022