Max Neuhaus

Performance

Max Neuhaus received a B.M. (1961) and a M.M. (1962) from Manhattan School of Music. He performed as percussion soloist on concert tours throughout the U.S. with Pierre Boulez (1962-63) and with Karlheinz Stockhausen (1963-64). While an artist-in-residence at the University of Chicago during 1964-65, he presented two solo recitals in Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City. During 1965-66 he toured major European cities presenting fifteen solo recitals. In 1966 he began producing compositions in the form of mass-produced electronic circuits, the first of which was called Max-Feed, sold directly to the general public. The series of sound-oriented pieces presented here was produced in 1966-68. His most recent work is called Three Hours of Sound Construction, presented in 1968 in Carnegie Recital Hall. Mr. Neuhaus has been awarded fellowships by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts, and the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music. Mr. Neuhaus resides in New York City.

six sound oriented pieces for situations other than that of the concert hall*...max neuhaus 1966-1968

listen

public supply

bi-product

american can

drive-in music

telephone access © Copyright Max Neuhaus 1968

*I use these pieces as frameworks of activities for myself (the existence of a framework eliminates many of the problems of production). Only one of them, American Can, was conceived for realization—or may be realized—by anyone other than myself.—M.N.

Sound works:

Puccini: Tosca, Location Performance: Opera Theatre, 2/3/1961
Sandy Wilson: The Boy Friend [The Rhode Island Theatre Company – Theatre by the Sea, Max Neuhaus played drums]. Location Performance: Matunuck, Rhode Island, 8/21/1961
Sonata for Three Kettledrums Milaud, 1961, Concerto Pour Marimba et Vibraphone
Student recital, Manhattan School of Music, 1961
Opera Theater. Ensemble. Work(s): Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro.
 April 14. 1961
Max Neuhaus,"Four Systems" and "The King Of Denmark" realized 1964.
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Nr. 9 Zyklus for One Percussionist 12:40 Solo Recital, Carnegie Recital Hall, New York City, June 2, 1964
Max Neuhaus, Coeur Pour Batteur" and "Fontana Mix - Feed" realized 1965. (records)
Max Neuhaus, John Cage: 27" 10.554'' Stockholm 4/24/1965 Recording
Performance Sudwestfunk Radio Baden-Baden, Germany, 1/1965

Max Neuhaus, addition of a thought: “Listen” (noun) (1965) Audiotape composition recorded at the University of Illinois based on Jackson Mac Low’s (1961)
Bi-Product, Max Neuhaus, Park Place Gallery, New York City, 1967

Works that mark Neuhaus' transition from performer to artist.






Max Neuhaus: Listen, Karlheinz Stockhausen: Zyklus [And other works by Cage, Bussotti, Feldman, Corner, and Tenney], 3/27/1966
Max-Feed by Max Neuhaus, 1966

Max-Feed could be considered Neuhaus's first art object.

4th Annual New York Avant-Garde Festival, September 9, 6am 'tll midnight, Central Park on September 9, 1966.

Works that Max Neuhaus' transition from performer to artist.  - sound event series, New York 

Max Neuhaus, American Can, Park, Staten Island's Clove lakes Park, New York, 1967

Event known as American Can, staged during the winter of 1966-67 in Staten Island’s Cloves Lakes Park (New York) and other locations around the city.

Morton Feldman: King of Denmark Available In North America from Junuary Thru June of 1967 (Recording)
Corner, Philip. Popular Entertainments PoorManMusic (Box Set), 1967

Corner, Philip. Popular Entertainments PoorManMusic (Box Set), 1967

No. 9 Zyklus For One Percussionist" written in 1959, realized 1968.