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"Neuhaus sees his role in the siren project as basically that of an eminently qualified and imaginative sound technician; he looks outside the art context for the project's ramifications. It is the mandatory localization and identification of the alarm sound by the hearer, rather than any emotional representation of it, that he feels must be emphasized."

"Neuhaus builds what he calls "sound works," more than 30 so far, that transform physical "places," most of which exist for other reasons. The premise is that we perceive space with our ears as well as our eyes: We hear a room as well as see it. The change is basic but subtle. A total of five - including two opened this spring on a bridge and in a corridor in Bern - are still running. Having toyed with such terms as "installation" and "sound environment," and trying to determine whether he can be called a sculptor or not, he still has trouble defining what he does. Ask Neuhaus what he is, however, and he answers without delay: "I'm an artist." "

Neuhaus appears rather liberal on matters of sound and noise, not surprisingly for someone who started organizing sound events in the 1960s with the LISTEN! Series, 1966-76 - these promenade tours without commentary consisted in walks to inaccessible indu

"Last Saturday afternoon, at Dia: Beacon, the art critic Christoph Cox, casual in a grey shirt and jeans, was leading a group through a gallery of hulking metal sculptures by John Chamberlain. It was a dramatic scene, but these people had assembled to hear Mr. Cox discuss something far subtler. "It's the most overlooked work in the entire museum," he told them. "It's invisible, so it's very easy to miss.""

"[ Michel Redolfi ] Trailer HD concert "Sonic Waters" (Bruxelles, 25 11 2018)" See also Max Neuhaus Underwater Music

"I would like to begin by talking about something I feel is quite astonishing - this built-in sound analyzer and source that we all have. One of the most astonishing things about it is that we are largely unaware of it. "

Podcast about Max Neuhaus' groundbreaking work Radio Net