Max Neuhaus

US artist, born August 9, 1939 in Beaumont, Texas, died February 3, 2009 at his home in Italy. Max Neuhaus was a percussionist and interpreter of contemporary music of the 1960s who moved on to become a pioneer in the field of sound art, a term he rejected but with which he is nonetheless associated. He has created numerous sound works (including sound installations) that have extended sound as an autonomous medium into the domain of contemporary art.