Swiss Artist ZIMOUN Explores Sound

June 12, 2013  |   Feature,   Initiatives,   World
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Zimoun, a self-taught artist, is known for his sound sculptures, sound architectures and installation art that combine raw, industrial materials such as cardboard boxes, plastic bags, or old furniture, with mechanical elements such as dc-motors, wires, microphones, speakers and ventilators.

Zimoun, born 1977, is an installation and sound artist from Switzerland and also founder of "leerraum," a label and network of artists who explore space, time, void, form, and structure based on reductive principles and careful, yet radical use of materials.
Zimoun, born 1977, is an installation and sound artist from Switzerland and also founder of “leerraum,” a label and network of artists who explore space, time, void, form, and structure based on reductive principles and careful, yet radical use of materials.

“Since a little kid I have been interested in exploring sound, playing instruments and creating compositions in addition to visual arts such as paintings, cartoons, photographs and so on,” Zimoun explained in an 2011 interview with Mark Peter Wright, “from a very early age I was fascinated and somehow obsessed by being active in all these fields; sound, music and visually realized projects. Now, through my sound sculptures and installations many of these interests are coming together.” Zimoun was influenced by composer and artist John Cage whose work and thoughts he often studied during his younger days.