Invention

In the 1980's Neuhaus took on the problem of redesigning the sounds of emergency vehicle sirens. The project's focuses were to make sounds that were locatable in an urban environment so
people would know what to do when they heard one, to allow two drivers of emergency vehicles to hear each other when their sirens were on so they wouldn't run into each other, and to make sounds we could live with: which would have authority without being authoritarian.

Sound works:

One-handed trill technique for mallet percussion instruments 1960

Stressed aluminum tubing stands for percussion instrument arrays 1962

Acoustic feedback as a sound-synthesis technique 1963

Series of analog synthesis circuits for each work 1966-1982. (Systems for creating place works)

Granular synthesis, Radio Net 1976

Computer-controlled sound palette 1978 (Systems for creating place works)

Siren

Digital sound-generation with remote control via CRT, (battery-operated TV) and light-pen 1983 (Systems for creating place works)

Multi-processor system linked by a network with remote control 1986 (Systems for creating place works)

Siren Patent, 1992

Real-time DSP synthesis algorithms with remote control 1998 - present (Systems for creating place works)