1966
Image:
Feed Poster for A Grand Feed, presented by Max Neuhaus, Mass Art Store, New York, December 29, 1966. Collection MoMa
Offset lithograph with collage addition. sheet: 14 x 21 15/16" (35.6 x 55.7 cm) The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift
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The piece is the interaction between, and mixture of, these feedback channels which are set up by resting contact microphones on various percussion instruments that are standing in front of loudspeakers. Although the varying of the individual intensities of these channels, which is extremely gradual throughout the performance of the piece, is done according to the score and the same in each of these performances, the actual sounds which make up piece are determined by the interactions of the sounds upon themselves, the acoustics of the room, where the mikes are resting in relationship to the loudspeakers and instruments at a specific moment (the vibrations set up cause them to move around during the piece) - in short, factors which are complex enough that even if the piece was performed twice successively in the same room with the same audience, the same instruments and the same loudspeakers, it would have completely different sounds and structures.
Max Neuhaus 1966
Because of the nature of these sounds it was not possible to put them on a record without greatly reducing their loudness. The listener can compensate for this reduction and come close to duplicating the original performance by turning the volume on his record player up to about twice the normal level.
Image: Max-Feed 'Score', 1966, 28x43 cm, Collection Max Neuhaus Estate
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Anne Zeitz - From MaxFeed to Radio Net – The radio projects of Max Neuhaus, 2013:
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Frac Franche-Comté / Cité des arts / Besançon, 2016:
Max Feed Exposition collective
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Dia Art Foundation, Video, May 21, 2019:
Artist on Artist Lecture - Camille Norment on Max Neuhaus