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Artist
Max Neuhaus
12+ albums
contemporary classicalAvant-Gardenoiseexperimentalpercussion
about
Max Neuhaus Neuhaus was in fact renowned for his interpretation of contemporary music while still in his twenties. In the early sixties, he toured America as a percussion soloist first with Boulez, and then with Stockhausen, and gave solo recitals at Carnegie Hall and in European capitals. The world of the percussionist is one focused on sound timbre: Neuhaus travelled with one thousand kilos of percussion instruments to perform his solo repertoire. He extended this palette of sound color by inventing several early electro-acoustic instruments. His solo album recorded for Columbia Masterworks in 1968 stands as one of the first examples of what is now called live electronic music. Neuhaus went on to pioneer artistic activities outside conventional cultural contexts and began to realize sound works anonymously in public places, developing art forms of his own. Utilizing his sense of sound and people's reactions to it gained after fourteen years as a musician, he began to make sound works which were neither music nor events and coined the term 'sound installation' to describe them. In these works without beginning or end, the sounds were placed in space rather than in time. Starting from the premise that our sense of place depends on what we hear, as well as what we see, he utilized a given social and aural context as a foundation to build a new perception of place with sound. With the realization of these non-visual artworks for museums in America and Europe, he became the f
top songs
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The King of Denmark
116202. Morton Feldman
63301. Earle Brown
494The King Of Denmark/Morton Feldman
475Four Systems-For Four Amplified Cymbals/Earle Brown
42603. Sylvano Bussotti
417Fontana Mix-Feed/John Cage
38805. John Cage
379No. 9 Zyklus for One Percussionist
3610Coeur Pour Batteur-Positive Yes/Sylvano Bussotti
33albums
Electronics and Percussion
Electronics And Percussion - Five Realizations By Max Neuhaus
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Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel / For Frank O'Hara / The King of Denmark
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Four Realizations Of Stockhausen's Zyklus
Electronics & Percussion - Five Realizations By Max Neuhaus
The New York School - Nine Realzations of Cage, Feldman, Brown
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Fontana Mix - Feed
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Radio Net
Fontana Mix-Feed
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Electronics & Percussion : Five Realizations by Max Neuhaus
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Feldman: Rothko Chapel, For Frank O'Hara & The King of Denmark
Fontana Mix - Feed (Six Realizations of John Cage)