168 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, cardboard boxes | Zimoun
168 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, cardboard boxes
May 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10

As its formalist title suggests, this immersive sound installation by Swiss artist Zimoun is compound of 168 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls and a massive wall of cardboard boxes. The large amount of balls touching the cardboard creates a dense landscape of sound. In a way, the immense overload of sonic stimuli could be a metaphor for us being bombed by an endless stream of data everyday, although the artist himself puts emphasis on the purely sensory experience. By combining simple components with architectural sizes, Zimoun has become one of best-known contemporary sound artists.