Ernst Lima: Gloam
Klangkunst Musik Musikperformance
GLOAM
A sonic intervention by
Ernst Lima
eingeladen von
Hans Jürgen Hauptmann
18 - 24 Uhr
“A voice, fractured, at times soaring, dissolves into the surrounding void.
The composition lingers in a liminal space - the dense and disorienting terrain of Dante’s first descent.“
Sound becomes a threshold. Echoes distort, presence wavers, clarity slips into abstraction.
The voice is both a guide and a ghost, caught between fear and surrender, between being lost and being found.
Ernst Lima (*Aquarius), is a trans-media artist, composer and sound designer based in Vienna, Austria. In liminal and often mantric installations Ernst Lima expands the boundaries between cross-worldly and inter-medial existence. Through the use of of multi-instrumental sounds, exploring the transition of bodies and their physical and mental reactions to technological self-extension, Ernst Lima’s presentations create symbiotic relationships between physical and virtual corporeality expanding genres of sound, installation, live concerts and visual works, which highlights the physical reactionary component in their work. Fluid but always deeply set, Ernst Limas music eschews single genres and identities, as it wades through influences spanning experimental electronic, electro-acoustics, film scoring, combined with the types of raw guitar loops from which her songwriting process often originates.
Ernst Limas work has been shown in national and international exhibitions such as Sotheby’s Artist Quarterly Vienna, Parallel Vienna, Friche la Belle de Mai Marseille, Unseen Amsterdam, as well as live performances at Belvedere 21, Popfest Vienna and Ars Electronica Linz. Ernst Lima designed soundscapes for artists and companies such as Meta, Salon Hybrid, Christiane Peschek and Sebastiano Sing that were presented in venues such as Impulstanz festival, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Vienna Contemporary and Kunstmuseum Celle.
2021 Ernst Lima received the START grant for media art from the Federal Chancellery of Austria, as well as the Bildrecht Young Artist Award.