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Image: Diagram Vectors© The Estate of Max Neuhaus
The vector diagram distilled Neuhaus’s sound activities by displacing the often confusing dichotomy of music – not-music. Freed from that opposition, the work emerges clearly as a series of interlocked movements that carry specific core ideas or processes. The idea of sound topography, for instance, changes dramatically from one vector to another – found sound topography, fluid underwater sound topography, static sound source becoming a moving sound topography, the geographically vast and interactive radio sound topography, etc. The open-ended directionality of vectors yields a narrative coherency to Neuhaus’s explorations of aurality that ultimately derives from the consistency of his desire to propel listeners and incite sensitive listening.
MAX NEUHAUS: SOUND VECTORS by DASHA DEKLEVA B.A., DePaul University, Chicago, 1992
https://www.max-neuhaus.estate/files/MAX_NEUHAUS_SOUND_VECTORS.pdf