Max Neuhaus

Max Neuhaus (1939-2009) was an American percussionist and sound artist, born in Beaumont, Texas. After working in the 1960s as a soloist in new music, he turned to pieces made for specific places and coined the term "sound installation" for them. His best known work is Times Square, a continuous drone that rises from beneath a subway grate on a Manhattan traffic island. Neuhaus studied percussion with Paul Price at the Manhattan School of Music and toured as a soloist with Pierre Boulez (1962-63) and Karlheinz Stockhausen (1963-64).