Zimoun, born 1977, is an installation and sound artist from Switzerland and also founder of «leerraum [ ]», a label and network of artists who explore space, time, void, form and structure based on reductive principles and careful yet radical use of materials. 2005 and 2006 Zimoun presented through the label leerraum [ ] 25 sound installations of international artist in their own showrooms at the centre for culture production called “Progr” (Bern, Switzerland), and since 2003 has published over 30 CDs, DVDs and obscure objects of the artists involved. www.leerraum.ch Since 2004 Zimoun has collaborated with the artist Pe Lang on their joint project «untitled sound objects», which is based on work where materials are made to sound by making them vibrate, and on the related investigation of sound, material, resonance properties and generative systems. For further information and video documentation check: www.untitled-sound-objects.ch Zimoun’s work has won several prices and awards, such as the Swiss Art Award in Basel (2006) and the New York Artist in Residence Projects of the Swiss Culture Department (2007). His work has been presented in numerous European countries and also in China and Egypt. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.