Zimoun (b. 1977 in Bern) is a Swiss musician and composer who creates sound sculptures and sonic architectures. He grew up in a home where the sound of his mother playing the piano would wake him in the mornings, while the tools in his father’s workshop invited experimentation. Later, John Cage’s ideas about silence, noise, chance, and the value of the sounds that surround us became an important point of departure for his work.

In Zimoun’s practice, objects drawn from everyday life and industry are transformed into precisely constructed, unique sound structures. Box upon box, ball beside ball, movements and sounds shifting, overlapping and coinciding. Driven by a mechanical motor, each cotton ball strikes differently every time, making every voice in this sea of sound – or present-day organ – singular. We can enter this pulsating space, hear it, see it, spend time within it, leave it, and carry away our own experience.

This is the first presentation of Zimoun’s work in Lithuania and forms part of Laconica, an ongoing programme developed by Pamėnkalnio Gallery.