Max Neuhaus is a pioneer of artistic activities with sound. Utilizing the sense of sound he developed in fourteen years as a musician, Neuhaus began to make sound works which were neither music nor events. He coined the term ’sound installation’ to describe them. In these works without beginning or end, the sounds were placed in space rather than in time.

Neuhaus continued his activities in music with his Networks or Broadcast Works, virtual architectures which act as forums open to anyone for the evolution of new musics. In the first, “Public Supply”, in 1966, he combined a radio station with the telephone network and created a two-way public aural space twenty miles in diameter encompassing New York City, where any inhabitant could join a live dialogue with sound by making a phone call. Later in 1977 with “Radio Net”, he formed a nationwide network with 190 radio stations. To listen to selections from ‘Public Supply” and “Radio Net”, click here. Neuhaus’ current project, “Auracle”, constructs a twenty-four hour a day global entity for live interaction with sound over the Internet.

The following interview with Max Neuhaus was conducted by Peter Traub via email in Spring 2005 for the article “Sounding the Net: Recent Sonic Works for the Internet and Computer Networks.” The article was published in the Contemporary Music Review in the Summer of 2005.

http://transition.turbulence.org/networked_music_review/2007/08/20/interview-max-neuhaus/