Taylor Deupree + Zimoun : Wind Dynamic Organ, Deviations (2025 | 12k) Excerpt

Taylor Deupree + Zimoun
Wind Dynamic Organ, Deviations

Composed and Produced by Taylor Deupree + Zimoun 2025
Mix and Mastering by Taylor Deupree | 12k
Development Wind Dynamic Organ by Daniel Glaus + Team
Medium: Vinyl + Digital
Published by 12k, 2025
Duration: 43 min
Current File: Stereo, Excerpts
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Press Release 12k:
Swiss artist Zimoun had the honor and joy to spend time with a unique instrument, the Wind Dynamic Organ (Prototype III), located in Bern, Switzerland. He was given access to explore and record over the past few years.The result are two albums of material: a solo work of more pure and unmaniuplated sound titled Wind Dynamic Organ, One & Two (12k2061) and this Wind Dynamic Organ, Deviations on which he collaborates with Taylor Deupree. On this latter work they use the organ’s tones as a starting point for deeper sonic experimentation.

Zimoun describes the experience:

“I have had the wonderful opportunity to engage regularly and over a longer period with the ‘Wind-Dynamic Organ, Prototype III’—a truly outstanding and marvellous instrument developed by Daniel Glaus and his team. In contrast to a conventional organ, wind pressure and air volume per pipe can be actively, continuously, and dynamically shaped: the tone is therefore not merely switched on and off, but modulated while it is sounding. This makes it possible to work with dynamic sound evolutions, to generate sounds at the boundary regions of the actual tones, or to integrate pure air noises and shimmering rustles. The key travel changes the attack of the tone, allowing seamless shifts from clearly accented figures to fused bands of sound without changing stops. In this way, airy, noise-tonal textures and flickering, oscillating overtone clouds can emerge that respond to the current wind pressure.”

Based solely on sounds from the organ, Deviations allows the two artists to use them as a point of departure in order to develop further modulations that dig deeper into the unique characteristics of the instrument’s sound, highlighting and altering textures to create something new, yet related.

The organ stands in the Bern Minster, Switzerland. It was developed and built as part of a research project at the Bern Bern Academy of the Arts (HKB) under the direction of organist and composer Daniel Glaus—with support from the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Find the full album on Bandcamp and various streaming platforms.