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LISTEN

Invitation Listen 3/27/66 | Collection Max Neuhaus Estate
Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA

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LISTEN by Max Neuhaus is a pioneering soundwalk in Manhattan, transforming ambient city sounds into an artistic, immersive experience that highlights the spatial, social, and perceptual dimensions of listening.

LISTEN is a pioneering soundwalk by Max Neuhaus, inviting participants to explore the urban environment of 14th Street and Avenue C in Manhattan through attentive listening. Rather than presenting music in a conventional sense, Neuhaus transforms the city’s ambient sounds into an artistic experience, heightening awareness of sonic spaces often overlooked. Participants are guided to perceive the interplay of traffic, industrial hums, and subtle environmental noises, emphasizing sound as a dynamic, spatial, and socially situated medium. Listen marks an early and influential exploration of sound as autonomous art, foregrounding the act of listening as a creative, immersive practice.

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EPPLEY, Charles. A Map of a Sound as a Space: Christine Sun Kim’s (LISTEN) (2016). The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, v. 2, n. 2, 2021. Sound, Colonialism, and Power. Available at: <www.mast-journal.org>. Accessed on: 08/12/2025.

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Copyright ©The Estate of Max Neuhaus. All rights reserved.

APA style reference

Neuhaus, M. (1966). LISTEN. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/listen-2/
Submitted by: Dani Spadotto

scurrifunge

To work or walk hurriedly. from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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