Hi, we are .LiMA !
Hi, we are .LiMA!
We are a nerdy couple based in beautiful Vienna, Austria. We love hardware synthesizers! Mainly analogue, often modular, sometimes digital. In our cosy soundlab surrounded by forest we produce atmospheric electronic music and set spoken words, theatre plays, artworks, short films and – above all – feelings into music.
Press Text .LiMA german
Wahrmonisch, melodynamisch, klangwellig, träumlich – mit diesen experimentellen Adjektiven beschreibt sich das Synthesizer-Duo .LiMA aus Wien. Die Lust am Experiment ist für Lina und Markus alias .LiMA, im kreativen und privaten Leben miteinander verheiratet, ein zentraler Impuls ihrer kreativen Entfaltung. Das Musikerpaar erschafft an ihren analogen, digitalen und modularen Synthesizern polyphone Soundwelten, bei denen Melodie und Dissonanz miteinander verschmelzen und sich gegenseitig bereichern.
Und das aus gutem Grund, denn der jeweilige musikalische Approach der beiden Klangkünstler ist einander diametral entgegengesetzt: Lina, die intuitive Musikerin, gelernte Klavierspielerin und emotionale Echtzeitkomponistin, die ohne PC und DAW ihren Synthesizern melodisches Leben einhaucht und mit Tönen malt. Markus, der versierte Techniker, kreative Ingenieur und detailverliebte Musterentwickler, der mathematische Relationen akustisch erlebbar macht. Sie adressiert das Herz der Hörenden, er das Hirn.
Radiotaugliche Track-Längen? Genre-Zugehörigkeit? Rhythmische Normen? Unrelevant für die Beiden. Lieber den Ideen und deren Impulsantworten freien Lauf lassen. Und genau das macht den speziellen Reiz von .LiMA aus.
Presstext English Version
Wahrmonisch, melodynamisch, klangwellig, träumlich – these are the experimental german language based adjectives used to describe the synthesizer duo .LiMA from Vienna. For Lina and Markus alias .LiMA, who are married in their creative and private lives, the desire to experiment is a central impulse for their creative development. The musician couple use their analog, digital and modular synthesizers to create polyphonic soundscapes in which melody and dissonance merge and enrich each other.
And for good reason, because the musical approaches of the two sound artists are diametrically opposed: Lina, the intuitive musician, trained piano player and emotional real-time composer, who breathes melodic life into her synthesizers and paints with tones without a PC or DAW. Markus, the accomplished technician, creative engineer and detail-loving pattern developer who brings mathematical relations to life acoustically. She addresses the heart of the listener, he the brain.
Track lengths suitable for radio? Genre affiliation? Rhythmic norms? Irrelevant for the two of them. They prefer to give free rein to their ideas and their impulse responses. And that is precisely what makes .LiMA so appealing.
Actual .LiMA setup:
- ARP 2600
- Andromeda A6
- Dave Smith Polyevolver PEK
- Dave Smith Polyevolver Rack
- Deckard’s Dream by Black Corporation
- Sequential Prophet 10
- Moog Sub37
- Moog Minitaur
- Moog Etherwave Theremin
- Synthstrom Deluge
- Roland SH-201
- Roland System 1
- Roland System 8
- Roland TR-8
- 2 x Roland MX-1
- Roland VT-3
- LYRA 8 by SOMA
- Clavia Nord G2 Modular
- Yamaha CK-61
- Yahama Reface CP
- Kawai K5000
- Bastl and Doepfer Module
- Mutable Instruments Clouds
- Roland System 1m
- Roland Integra 7
- Roland JV2080
- Reaktor 6
- Presonus StudioLife 32 SX
- Lexicon MX400
- UAD Apollo Twin USB Duo
- Alesis HD 24 XR
- DirectOut exbox.uma
- motu MIDI express XT
- Meckie onyx 24.4
- Neumann KH 80
- Waldorf Blofeld
- Walorf Iridium
- Waldorf Iridium Keyboard
… to be continued …