Ernst Lima  creates a sonic exploration of fluid ways of being and interprets own experiences and stories into metaphorical lyrics. By telling about memory, dream experiences, identity, ancestral legacies, loss and intimacy, GENESIS represents the score to ERNST LIMAs perception of life.

GENESIS

1 min. excerpt of a commitioned sound piece for Christiane Pescheks exhibition NEOTOTEM at Künstlerhaus Vienna
10/2023

Sound Design for NEOTOTEM (exhibition by Christiane Peschek at Künstlerhaus Vienna)

Ernst Lima - Change Of Meadows

DIE SPUR_RECORDS is a new format dedicated to an intimate, experimental and unique sound. The session will be recorded in our Studios, in Vienna.  

Guitar, Loops, FX and Voice: ERNST LIMA

Die Spur_Live Session 
Curated by Alex Kasses
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Alex Kasses 
@Spur Records Studio

Stagedesign by Gabriel Schnetzer & Alex Kasses

Video by
K85 FILM

Thanks to: 
KALK33 ALLSTARS, Johanna Karg, Michael Wallinger, Gabriel Schnetzer

ERNST LIMA - Live @DieSpurRecords

HUMAN @SonicHorizonsSession Christiane Peschek & Ernst Lima

SCHWARZE DONAU
An interpretation of the Danube Waltz – but reimagined,
distorted- dive into the darker, more abstract waves.

3:10 min
2025
Big Thanks to  Vinylograph Vienna for supporting the realization of this composition

SCHWARZE DONAU

What is created is an acoustic threshold space—a zone of the in-between, of transition, in which past, present, and future oscillate in fragmented temporality. The starting point is a personal confrontation with Inferno—not as a closed narrative, but as a vibrating structure of voice, echoes, and incomprehensibility.
The intervention points to a rupture: of language, of orientation, of the possibility of decision. Just as in the narrative of Inferno, a figure speaks at the limits of comprehensibility, GLOAM evokes an auditory terrain that does not form a narrative, but instead a state of stasis. The impossibility of indecision is negotiated here as an acoustic space—as frequencies that do not allow linear storytelling, but rather amplify the sensation of eternal entrapment.
A person adds a visual trace into this echo chamber, inscribing, over the duration of five hours, the sentence: 
held in a permanent moment.
The topology of GLOAM can be read as a premonition of Limbo—not as a mythological place, but as a phenomenon of the present: the constant scrolling, the algorithmic circling without decision, the stasis in an endless loop of possibilities. I transforms this state into sound, making audible what blurs in the overlap of digital and physical realities: the moment of suspension, the delay as its own terrain.
GLOAM hovers in repetition, in imprecision, at a threshold... 
What happens when language fails—when decisions are left suspended? When orientation is lost? What remains when the only movement is oscillation?
A space that does not define itself, but continually eludes. A frequency that carries no clear message, but presence.
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Sound Piece
(10 minutes Loop increasing low frequencies over time span of 5 hours)
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Hornspeaker, chain, carpet,
Person, written wall text (held in a permanent moment)
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Installationview 
@ve.sch artspace vienna
03/2025

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