tank sound installation

A permanent installation with 329 DC-motors, cotton balls, and filler wires inside a 1951 toluene tank located in Dottikon, Switzerland.

Using simple and functional components, the artist builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of simple and functional materials, these works articulate a tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic forces of life. Carrying an emotional depth, the acoustic hum of natural phenomena in his minimalist constructions effortlessly reverberates.

By Swiss artist Zimoun.

Photographs by Zimoun and Janis Weidner / Studio Zimoun

Zimoun : 329 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, toluene tank, 2013 from STUDIO ZIMOUN on Vimeo.