Sound Sculpture in Times Square

Max Neuhaus died a year ago, but his voice still reverberates in Times Square. It is, as he once described it, a sonorous, harmonic tone resembling the after-ring of large bells. It arises from beneath a subway grating where he installed a sound sculpture in 1977, when Times Square was a very different place.

For those who find and accept the sounds impossibility though, the island becomes a different place, separate but including its surroundings, Mr. Neuhaus wrote. These people, having no way of knowing that it has been deliberately made, usually claim the work as a place of their own discovering.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/nyregion/21book.html

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• Max Neuhaus
• New York City
• Times Square
• Sound Art
• sound
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