Exhibition: Weg der Schweiz, Lake Luzern, Switzerland. Dimensions: 150 x 100 meters
Image: Max Neuhaus Drawing Study
Untitled, Frequency differences between sources #2,1990 - Pencil on paper - 28x45 cm.
Collection: The Estate of Max Neuhaus
Sound work references: Exhibition: Weg der Schweiz, Lake Luzern, Switzerland
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As one enters the work's wooded grove, one encounters a high bright sound – like a fine aural mist. It permeates the grove, seeming to come from nowhere.
At first the sound seems constant, but if one listens for a few minutes an inner detail and motion begin to appear. After a while the sound sometimes seems to disappear, becoming embedded in the sound of the woods. It is an intense but not unpleasant place to be.
Upon leaving the wood the sound becomes distant and things slip back to normal.
Excerpt from: Michael Tarantino, Two Passages, Oxford, December 1998
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Drawings from a sound work commissioned by the city of Geneva for a national exhibition, Weg der Schweiz, outdoors in the surroundings of Lake Luzern in 1990.
Included are a group of 12 working drawings showing the locations of the work's seven sound sources and the frequency relationships between them which created the work's sound texture. Also included is a version of the image panel of the work's circumscription drawing along with studies which trace its development. m.n.