Der schweizer Gitarrist und Soundartist Zimoun bringt in wenigen Wochen ein neues digitales Album auf Room40 heraus. Wie einige seiner zurückliegenden Arbeiten basieren die vorliegenden neun Stücke dem Einsatz elektrischer Gitarre, gleichwohl diesmal ein besonderer, aus den 60er Jahren stammender Verstärker verwendet wurde und einige kleine Materialien wie Staub, Erde oder kleine Steine auf den Membranen von Boxen platziert wurden. Aufgrund des Einbezugs derart unberechenbarer Details ist das Resultat eine Musik, deren Form in steter Veränderlichkeit begriffen ist. Die ersten Abschnitte des Albums sind bereits zu hören.

“This album is entirely based on sounds generated by the guitar. I’ve been interested in the guitar as a sound source for some time and have explored it on previous editions including Guitar Studies I-III. On this work, I’ve experimented with different methods and materials, specifically a Magnatone tube amplifier from the 1960s, and various speaker membranes covered with dust, soil, or small stones. The friction of these materials on the vibrating speaker membranes produced slight distortions and irregularities in the sounds, alongside the warm tube tones of the vintage amp. With these recordings as a starting point, I replayed these sounds into various containers and spaces, re-recording them to capture and integrate natural reverb. In the final iterative step, I used a multiband equalizer to make gentle and slow live manipulations in the microstructures of the sounds throughout the composition, and recorded these as well. This approach aimed to create soundscapes that, despite having a rather static character, exhibit much liveliness and gentle transformations in their textures. It is the sense of vast space, the sparse landscape and its apparent emptiness, or the psychedelic atmospheres that start to manifest in the heat, twilight, or blur, that I associate with the composition.