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Canadian Experimental Electronic Noise Guitarist, Sound Sculptor and Noise Composer

Canadian Experimental Electronic Noise Guitarist Pim Zond - Bio & Brief Interview

"I attempt to bend and hopefully break each genre I encounter" (Pim Zond  December 2012)

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Pim Zond is a Canadian experimental avant-garde guitarist, recording artist and sound sculptor active in free-improvisation, noise, metal, ambient, and doom jazz genres. With his fascination with Sun Ra, Frank Zappa, John McLaughlin, Anton Webern and Derek Bailey, Zond strives to obtain as wide an array of sounds than are usually heard at that particular moment in time, under the conditions with the chosen devices or instruments.

Pim Zond是国际跨文化的试验品，也是一名前卫的吉他手。他的专辑风格和音乐元素多有实验，哥特和金属。他用他特有的方式探索我们所熟知的世界。永远都是不寻常的，有时好玩，有时可怕，但一直是最原本的。

Pim Zond is a self-taught visionary artist and musician, an "autodidact". His continuing work in re-creating various musical and visual works comes from a perpetual need to explore, construct, de-construct and invent ways of recording his inner-most ideas and visions.

It comes at the cost of art being an integral part of life. There is no spare time, only "art-time". Pim Zond's work is at heart fundamentally his own from beginning to end. Not so much is he influenced by other musicians, as is his admiration made whole with echoes of the past brought forth into his own particular now.

A life-long fan of music, movies, art and media, he crosses boundaries and and invades territories some more conservative afficionados hold sacred.

Hence his estrangement from traditional music industry convention and the art-world clique. Pim Zond provides a constantly evolving art-result from an ever mutating pallette of experience and opinion.

He uses spidery-fingered tones and harmonics, psycho-billy fragments, only to become dominated by fierce but brief heavy metal inspired noise riff attacks. This builds to a high point until unusual handmade string instruments are deployed to explore low-tension tunings, and discordant scraping and feedback with computerized rhythmic accompaniments.

His current guitars are a vintage Gibson Les Paul Deluxe, a customized Metropolis electronic guitar with joystick tone control with an electric-slide of his own design, a 9 string semi-acoustic travel guitar, a 1960's Saturn 5 acoustic, and a 1960's Audition electric guitar which his parents bought for him when he was 10 years old. He plays through a Karaoke machine, using various guitar effects and pedals.

Added to the mix is a Chinese Moon guitar of his own design created from found objects called the "Dead Ring". This 5 string semi-acoustic guitar is featured as the world's largest Mandolin Guitar (22") in a world record at recordsetter.com, along with his playing of the the world's smallest 4 string mandolin (2"), also a world record.
Pim Zond uses any instrument as purely a sound source, depending on every condition, such as costume, mood, inspiration and other environmental atmospheres.

"Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable, and may be a hybrid of disparate styles, or incorporates unorthodox techniques and instruments or devices that become instrumentation."
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 A brief interview with Pim Zond, Interview reproduced courtesy of Soundclick.com

Pim Zond, is an experimental noise guitarist, media motion-maker and Canadian avant-garde surrealist. Being ambitiously experimental, he combines elements of dark ambient guitar and noise with space music soundtracks and gothic metal influences with psychotic free jazz.
"Passion for electronic and experimental music history, and experimentation with found art musical instrumentation construction and debasement. Enjoying deceptively non-musical audio. Creativity everyday." (Pim Zond 2012)

How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
It changes it for the better, since it causes chaos in an old “industry”, which leads to a shake-up and creation of new ways to produce and distribute. Although I prefer vinyl as a medium, for its’ sound and size, etc.
Band History:
Based in Canada since 2011.

Your influences?
My main influences are people like Stockhausen, Brian Eno, Derek Bailey, John McLaughlin, Sunn O>>>, Merzbow, Boris, Edgar Varese, Marc Bolan, Reeves Gabrels, Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, etc, although I don’t make any attempt at emulation.

Favorite spot?
Between low Earth orbit and underground.

Equipment used:
In this last project, my album: “23 Years of Fear” I used a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe, a custom electronic Metropolis guitar, a 9 string semi-acoustic travel guitar that I rebuilt. And a handful of Boss and DOD fx pedals with an Ibanez Weeping Demon. Plus a few FX from a Yamaha keyboard, I forget the model number at the moment.

You didn’t mention the amp(s) you use?
I play through an old Karaoke machine.