Donnerstag, 27. November 2014, 19.00 (Eröffnung)
MAX NEUHAUS
American can I Klangperformance I
Performers: Alle, die daran teilnehmen wollen
American can
Klangperformance
American Can is a piece in which a large number of any single product manufactured or distributed by the
Merican Can Cp. is distributed on the ground, in a large crowd. The quantity of the product used must be at
least enough to completely blanket the area of distribution with one layer. The ground upon which the
product is distributed should be hard enough to insure that a sound is made when the product is bounced or
slid along it. Each piece is labelled with a version title and the words AMERICAN CAN and Max Neuhaus Sept'
66.
[Max Neuhaus, A Max Sampler, in: Source. Music of the Avant-garde, 1966-1973, issue 5, January 1969]
American Can wurde im Rahmen des 4th Annual New York Avant Garde Festival im New Yorker Central Park
am 9. September 1966 uraufgeführt.
MAX NEUHAUS
Max Neuhaus was born in 1939 in Texas, and spent his childhood in Fishkill, New York. He began his studies
in music at the Manhattan School of Music under Paul Prince’s mentorship. In 1958, he met John Cage, and
this encounter determined his decision to become a professional percussionist. After a solo tour in Europe in
1965, Neuhaus started developing projects that went beyond the strictly musical realm; among them were
site-specific pieces that he was the first to call sound installations. In 1968, as he started a research
residency at the Bell Laboratories, Neuhaus ceased performing as a musician and fully devoted himself to
sound art. Since then, his work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, including solo
shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1978); Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (1983); the
Kunsthalle Bern (1989). He was also included in Documentas 6 (1977) and 9 (1992), Kassel, Germany; the
Whitney Biennial, New York (1983); and the Venice Biennale (1999). In 2008, an exhibition of Neuhaus’s
drawings was organized by the Menil Collection, Houston, which coincided with the inauguration of a new
installation, Sound Line. Neuhaus passed away in February 2009 in Italy.
[http://www.diaart.org/exhibitions/artistbio/91]
http://www.max-neuhaus.info/
Merican Can Cp. is distributed on the ground, in a large crowd. The quantity of the product used must be at
least enough to completely blanket the area of distribution with one layer. The ground upon which the
product is distributed should be hard enough to insure that a sound is made when the product is bounced or
slid along it. Each piece is labelled with a version title and the words AMERICAN CAN and Max Neuhaus Sept'
66.
[Max Neuhaus, A Max Sampler, in: Source. Music of the Avant-garde, 1966-1973, issue 5, January 1969]
American Can wurde im Rahmen des 4th Annual New York Avant Garde Festival im New Yorker Central Park
am 9. September 1966 uraufgeführt.
MAX NEUHAUS
Max Neuhaus was born in 1939 in Texas, and spent his childhood in Fishkill, New York. He began his studies
in music at the Manhattan School of Music under Paul Prince’s mentorship. In 1958, he met John Cage, and
this encounter determined his decision to become a professional percussionist. After a solo tour in Europe in
1965, Neuhaus started developing projects that went beyond the strictly musical realm; among them were
site-specific pieces that he was the first to call sound installations. In 1968, as he started a research
residency at the Bell Laboratories, Neuhaus ceased performing as a musician and fully devoted himself to
sound art. Since then, his work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, including solo
shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1978); Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (1983); the
Kunsthalle Bern (1989). He was also included in Documentas 6 (1977) and 9 (1992), Kassel, Germany; the
Whitney Biennial, New York (1983); and the Venice Biennale (1999). In 2008, an exhibition of Neuhaus’s
drawings was organized by the Menil Collection, Houston, which coincided with the inauguration of a new
installation, Sound Line. Neuhaus passed away in February 2009 in Italy.
[http://www.diaart.org/exhibitions/artistbio/91]
http://www.max-neuhaus.info/
shut up and listen! 2014
Interdisziplinäres Festival für Musik und Klangkunst
