Guitar Sculpture, paper and wood with Neon Strings - Pim Zond 2014
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Avant-garde Musician Pim Zond on China's YOUKU!
Winnipeg Experimental Guitarist Pim Zond Hits China's YOUKU!
www.pimzond.com 实验吉他手Pim Zond使用很简洁的手法，创造出自由、简易的（称为死亡之环）的音乐。 他亲手制造这个5弦“月亮吉他”或称“曼陀林吉他”，琴身有一个直径为22英寸的环，以及拥有11英寸的指板，是目前世界上最大的吉他。设计灵感来源于之前录音所使用过的世界上最小的曼陀林吉他。两者皆源于中国的琵琶。
In January 2010, Youku and competitor Tudou announced the creation of a video broadcasting exchange network, under which Youku and Tudou will cross-license professionally produced video content.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Pim Zond - Straight-Jacket, Gag, and Idol - Unusual Electronic Keyboard Music
Pim Zond - Straight-Jacket, Gag, and Idol
Unusual Electronic Keyboard Music
From experimental guitarist Pim Zond, a less experimental and more lighthearted digital music arrangement played on electronic keyboard. Like part of a movie soundtrack, somewhere, on some world, or in the past.
Dirty Cell Slaves - New Music from Pim Zond
"Dirty Cell Slaves" - New Music from Pim Zond
How much bacteria is really on your smartphone and have they made you their slave? A new single track music release from avant-garde musician and outsider artist Pim Zond. Available for immediate download from Reverbnation: DOWNLOAD HEREExperimental Noise Guitar Music of Pim Zond
Pim Zond - Experimental MUSIC-"Tin Toy Killer" VIDEO by Pim Zond
Monday, April 28, 2014
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Pim Zond on New Youtube Channel
Available so far: World's Smallest Mandolin Clockwork Is Sad Kold Air Kitty
Pim Zond Sets World Record
Pim Zond Sets World Record
Experimental guitarist Pim Zond establishes world record playing the smallest mandolin.Pandora Predicted To 'Dominate' Web Radio For Next Few Years
Pandora Predicted To 'Dominate' Web Radio For Next Few Years
By Clyde SmithWith concerns about profitability and iTunes Radio about to launch, there's a lot of uncertainty around Pandora's future. But one recent report from IBISWorld claims that Pandora will continue to dominate web radio. Given that its stock recently hit new highs and mobile advertising is showing strong growth, Pandora actually has a lot going for it at the moment.
The recently teased IBISWorld report (via RAIN) notes that over the last five years: "The number of mobile internet connections grew at an annualized rate of 53.0% during the five-year period. 'As such, internet radio's audience increased an annualized 16.5% during the same period, far outpacing traditional radios,' according to IBISWorld industry analyst David Yang. Consequently, internet radio broadcasters have taken a larger slice of advertising revenue from the $17.3-billion Radio Broadcasting industry." Though citing positive usage and ad growth stats for web radio, the report also pointed to challenges with profitability due, in part, to the much higher royalty rates web radio broadcasters pay than do terrestrial radio broadcasters.
The IBISWorld analysts expect leaders such as Pandora, iHeart Radio and, most likely, the soon-to-launch iTunes Radio to maintain their lead with Pandora continuing to "dominate the marketplace as new entrants will have a difficult time attracting listeners away from well-established services." They also expect future competition to be limited, in part, "as new entrants will hesitate to enter the industry due to the inability of major players to operate profitably." So Pandora's leading in a race with many challenges.
Pandora's Mobile Ads A Bright Spot Pandora recently removed the 40-hour limit on free mobile listening with the expectation that this move might undermine subscriber growth. They maintain that such a move is positive because they've found ways to curtail those who go over 40 hours. In addition, this move "reinforces the success we are having with monetizing and selling ads on mobile platforms," according to chief revenue officer John Trimble. Pandora's mobile advertising is said to account for "70% of Pandora's total ad revenue."
It turns out that some of that growth is in local advertising, an area in which Pandora is investing additional resources. As Trimble revealed: "We've grown the sales force by 73% year-over-year, and a lot of that is to compete directly for that $15 billion of broadcast radio advertising. More specifically, while we did it on a national level, we pushed extremely hard into the ...read more
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Steve Aoki's Manager On Getting Famous Online: Stop Promoting and Start Entertaining
Steve Aoki's Manager On Getting Famous Online: Stop Promoting and Start Entertaining
Aoki has capitalized greatly on his over-the-top personality and his web presence reflects that personality. Yet Colon says the biggest secret has been making the shift "from promotion to entertainment" and pursuing choices that lead to higher audience engagement on social media.
According to Steve Aoki's manager Matt Colon (via Dotted Music), Aoki is successful for a number of reasons including the fact that people dig his music, he puts on a great live show and he performs as often as possible (300 gigs last year). But he tops off this combination of enjoyable music, hard work and great shows with a rapidly growing social media presence that didn't happen on its own.
Shifting From Promotion to Entertainment Colon credits Aoki's strong social following and media visibility with a shift in how Team Aoki approached creating content shifting from "typical DJ stuff, like music videos and tour diaries" to more creative fare including, when possible, creating one "non musical viral video a week."
On Facebook they "had been posting stuff about his new tracks or his upcoming shows, but fans didn’t really engage in that stuff." So they switched their "strategy from promotion to entertainment, and we started making viral videos and releasing weird or funny photos." The results have been powerful with Aoki's YouTube following growing from 30,000 to 690,000 subscribers in the last year.
On Facebook, Colon says they've seen Aoki's "posts go from 300 likes per post, to 500, 600, 1000 likes." Colon's bottom line: "We discovered that very few people on social media will like a post that says ‘Buy my new album’. You need to make a connection with fans, besides selling them something. Post photos of you in Starbucks. Tell a joke. People want to get to know the real you."
Aoki-youtube Running Aoki's YouTube Channel Like a Network Though Colon may be stretching things a bit by comparing Steve Aoki's YouTube channel to a tv network, they've clearly created a well-organized production schedule filled with amped-up music videos, road docs and, currently, a campaign for the DJ Mag 2013 Top 100 DJs. Colon points to last year's DJ Mag Top 100 campaign as an important turning point in their content production. They decided to make fun of the whole thing by parodying traditional political campaigns with such special moments as "Steve kissing babies, Steve as an eagle" and so forth. This approach even resulted in an honorary mention at the Webby Awards.
The current Top 100 campaign focuses on the concept that "Steve Is Just Like You" from toilet mishaps to digging through his sofa cushions. You can see from Aoki's YouTube channel homepage that videos are arranged into themes, from music videos to the Top 100 campaign, that are identified in the channel banner.
Each themed video is also added to a dedicated playlist and videos from the current major themes are each shown in separate sections on the main page. In addition, the typeface with theme title that appears on the still frame for each video helps tie individual themes together with the channel as a whole. It's a nice workaround for creating subchannels within a single YouTube channel without getting overly complex or splintering one's audience.
Channel analytics have also affected content production. For example, they learned from a third party company called The Audience that a third of Aoki's fans were Spanish speakers. So they've developed a humorous video series that connects to bilingual Spanish/English speakers. It Helps To Be Steve Aoki There's a lot more in this awesome piece from the JustGo Music Blog.
In particular, Matt Colon makes it clear that Steve Aoki is particularly suited to the age of social media. He has an over the top personality and he loves to be documented.But there's a lesson here for anyone using social media to promote their music. Focusing on news announcements and selling just isn't enough to engage an audience online. Making the switch "from promotion to entertainment," with what's entertaining decided by your aesthetic and audience response, is key to finding your own path to social media engagement and possibly even stardom.
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Friday, April 25, 2014
New Album by Experimental Electronic Guitarist Pim Zond
New Album by Experimental Electronic Guitarist Pim Zond
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実験的なエレクトロニック·ギタリストピムゾンドによる新アルバムNEWS Press Release! 新闻新闻稿 !
This month new music release: Part 1 of a three part music album set by Canadian Avant-garde Guitarist Pim Zond entitled: "Ethical Treatment of Humans" Distributed to iTunes and elsewhere via 88tc88 (China) and IndieGoBoom (Worldwide) Physical albums available availability to be announced. Check this blog for album artwork reveal this week.
Pim Zond - 23 Years of Fear album art 2012 (Photo credit: PimZondOfficial)[/caption]
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Ambient Guitar Drone Music Pim Zond
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Ambient Guitar Drone Music - Pim Zond - "MUSIC Without Weapons" by Pim ZondTuesday, April 22, 2014
Hungover Godzilla by Experimental Guitaristc Pim Zond - Electro Psychedelic Music Video
Experimental Electronic Psychedelic Music Video
Pim Zond - Hungover Godzilla - Music Video
Pim Zond - "Hungover Godzilla" - Experimental Electronic Psychedelic Metal MUSIC VIDEOic video by Pim Zond
Pim Zond - Hungover Godzilla 
Monday, April 21, 2014
New Single on iTunes
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Pim Zond on CBC Music
Pim Zond on CBC Music
To hear Pim Zond on CBC Music click HERE... Newest addition to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Music website, Pim Zond is now entered in Searchlight! Please visit this link and "vote up" his track Clockwork is Sad (Theme Mix).
Friday, April 18, 2014
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
New Music Chart Positions - Pim Zond
Monday, April 14, 2014
Pim Zond at #3 in Metal
Pim Zond at #3 in Metal
Whoo Hoo!, I broke the top 10 for the first time on the ReverbNation charts in metal for Winnipeg, MB! Thanks to all my fans, subscribers and supporters worldwide!Current position is #3
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Prepared Electronic Guitar Music Track - Chaos 1 - Pim Zond
Prepared Electronic Guitar Music Track - Chaos 1 - Pim Zond
Experimental noise guitarist Pim Zond searches for death metallic radio frequency with his Metropolis guitar in a free improvised track. Pim Zond - Chaos 1 - Prepared Electronic Guitar Music VIDEO by Pim Zond
Saturday, April 12, 2014
She Was Godzilla in My Bed - Gothic Music VIDEO Graphics Mix - Pim Zond
Pim Zond - Gothic Music VIDEO Graphics Mix - "She Was Godzilla in My Bed"
(Gothic Music Video Graphics Version)
Friday, April 11, 2014
New Music for your Halloween Christmas - "Kold Air Kitty" from PIM ZOND
Manitoba's Year of Music in 2014Trees in darkness sway as the Kold Air Kitty prowls in your mind in an excerpt from the Halloween Christmas song and graphic music video by Experimental MUSICIAN Pim Zond from Winnipeg, Canada. Meow! Full track available for download from Reverbnation at the following web link: http://tinyurl.com/n49l5eo Pim Zond - Halloween at Christmas Hypnotic MUSIC Video - "Kold Air Kitty" by Pim Zond
Pim Zond - New Video - Unexpected Return of Svetlana B
Pim Zond - New Video - Unexpected Return of Svetlana B
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Straight-jacket Gag and Idol - Keyboard Music Track from Pim Zond
Straight-jacket Gag and Idol - Keyboard Track from Pim Zond
Pim Zond - Electronic Keyboard Music VIDEO Animation - Straight Jacket Gag and Idol by Pim Zond
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Pim Zond - Music VIDEO Avant-metal Song on Dailymotion
Pim Zond - MUSIC Video Avant-metal Song on Dailymotion
Avant-garde guitarist Pim Zond releases music video of single from album "Ethical Treatment of Machines", entitled: "Disturbed Solo for Prepared Guitar and Percussion" on Dailymotion.comPim Zond - Prepared Solo for Disturbed GUITAR & Percussion New MUSIC Video by Pim Zond
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Friday, April 4, 2014
Pim Zond album - 23 Years of Fear - available in China on PaiShouBa!
Pim Zond album "23 Years of Fear" available in China on PaiShouBa!
Canadian experimental musician Pim Zond has signed a distribution deal for China's explosive music market with publishing on the legal Chinese mobile store: "PaiShouBa" (meaning ‘Applause’) His album "23 Years of Fear" "23年的恐惧 " and its' ringtones are now available in China for most mobile devices and smart phones. Screenshot: 
Pim Zond on Stage 32
Entertainment From students to award winners, theater managers to film directors, actors to screenwriters, the Big Gun Luv - Experimental Music Single from Pim Zond
Big Gun Luv - Experimental Music Single from Pim Zond
Metropolis Electronic Guitar - Pim ZOnd FAve Electric
Metropolis Electronic Guitar - Pim ZOnd FAve
Here are a few photos of my "Metropolis" guitar. I gave it that name because the original Fritz Lang silent sci-fi film from Germany is one of my favourites.
Especially the robot Maria.
The guitar is an old Quest guitar from the 80's that I haven't been able to find parts for. I added a Seymour Duncan pickup, and put the original pick-up into my Silver Bat travel guitar, which you can see in my MUSIC video called "Modo", plus I added 3 additional strings to that guitar after I hammered a vampire stake into the sound hole. You can see that in yet another music video ... Vampire wooden stake and hammer ... from the video "Modo", part of the as yet unreleased album "Live at the Parish of St. Charles". 
With this guitar though, I do most of my tweaking and hot-rodding, as I have to regularly clean the joystick control anyway, or it'll get gummed up, so I use it as a "test bed?". Plus I built and installed an electric slide which you'll hear on my new album project "Ethical Treatment of Machines" out in December.
Metropolis (film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) 
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Pim Zond - World's Largest Moon Guitar Mandolin - Recordsetter.com
Pim Zond - World's Largest Moon Guitar Mandolin 22" diameter
Experimental guitarist Pim Zond briefly plays an original free improvisation (now called "Dead Ring"). Hand-built from non-music related parts this 5 string acoustic "moon guitar" or mandolin has a body ring of 22" in diameter, and a fretboard of 11 inches is currently the world's largest. It's design is inspired by his previous record set with the world's smallest mandolin. Both are based on Chinese designs of pipa and rupan, as well as abstract sculptural appointments.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Prepared Noise Guitar with Gurkha Dagger - S-day by Pim Zond
Prepared Noise Guitar with Gurkha Dagger - "S-day" by Pim Zond
Pim Zond - Weird Noise Rock - Prepared Guitar with Gurkha Dagger - "S Day" by Pim Zond
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