“Sound Sculpture” as a medium implies a few things: The shaping/sculpting of sound itself; Or material structures (sculptures) that themselves generate sound. In fact both things are happening. The meaning of the two interpretations are echoes of the same medium.

The artist creates a structure. The structure creates a sound. Therefore the artist creates the sound.

Direct and indirect audiovisual interplay induces a sort of meditation in the experiencer. The residual habit-energy and worn, familiar thought patterns of the mind are tilled back to loose and fertile “soil” upon witnessing these audio objects. Subtle and simple beauty, frantic and also calming. It’s simultaneously manufactured and seemingly organic; a mechanized simulation of falling water in the form of rain, rushing rivers or waves on the sea.

Straight from the Vimeo page:

Zimoun’s sound sculptures and installations are graceful, mechanized works of playful poetry, their structural simplicity opens like an industrial bloom to reveal a complex and intricate series of relationships, an ongoing interplay between the «artificial» and the «organic».

He is interested in the artistic research of simple and elegant systems to generate and study complex behaviours in sound and motion. He creates sound pieces from basic components, often using multiples of the same prepared mechanical elements to examine the creation and degeneration of patterns.

Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & Installations | Compilation Video V1.9 from ZIMOUN VIDEO ARCHIVE on Vimeo.

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