Ulf langheinrich biography

Ulf Langheinrich (born 1960 Wolfen, East Germany) is a.
Ulf Langheinrich, German visual artist, music composer, painter, professor, co-founder of the duo Granular-Synthesis (AT).
Ulf Langheinrich - Short Biography.

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ULF LANGHEINRICH & ERIC WONG

REPOSITION (2019)
Eight-channel sound installation.

JULY 13 – AUGUST 8 2019

The fifth instalment of SONIC SPACE features a nine-channel sound installation by Ulf Langheinrich & Eric Wong

Uff Langheinrich and Eric Wong have taken upon granular synthesis in combination with extended electric guitar techniques to create counter-punctual glittering textures, which magnify microscopic waveforms, in this nine channel electric-acoustic creation.

Photo: Henri Falk

Uff Langheinrich (born 1960) is a visual artist, composer and sound installation artist. His work is mainly concerned with non-narrative environments and performances focusing on a specific approach to time, space and body.

Since 2003, Ulf Langheinrich has realised various large scale solo projects including Drift, Waveform, Hemisphere (hemispheric film on a suspended dome) and his first stereoscopic film commissioned by Liverpool Biennial in 2008, entitled ‘Land’. His artworks have been exhibited at MACBA (Barcelona), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin

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Here comes another chapter of the series of interviews dedicated to the most interesting representatives of Sonic Acts latest edition (Amsterdam, February 21st 24th), which we started in March with a long virtual conversation with Ken Jacobs. (“Jacobs: il demiurgo dell’immagine in movimento” di Alessio Galbiati e Paola Catò Digimag32/marzo08).

This time is Ulf Langheinrich‘s turn, “a contemporary artist who has always struggled for a production aimed at reaching an emotive and effective unicuum”. (this definition comes from Mixedmedia Milan festival 2006 online pages, from Audiovisual Art section crated by Marco Mancuso).

Born in 1960 in Wolfen (Eastern Germany) he lives and works between Vienna (Austria) and Accra (Ghana). Leaving the land of real socialism, in the middle of the ’80s he moves to the western part of his country, having already had a varied education which included (compulsory) military service and the fundaments of industrial design, painting and music. The experiences with Eberhard von der Erde in painting as well a

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CYNETART – VORTEX – Ulf Langheinrich, #2 – 2020

“I think experienced reality is a hallucination. It is real not because it is physically true, but because we believe the experience. Dreams, for example, are capable of generating such a convincing hallucination of reality that it is experienced as real, independent of physics. It seems as if the generation of reality-similar puzzle patterns, with ever more discrete pixels, ever faster image sequences, in ever greater differentiation, is the one goal in which aesthetic and technological research agree: the approximation of the virtual to the credibility of the dream. When the granularity of the generated patterns is no longer recognizable as such at the system boundaries of the human senses, when a VR environment has finally overwhelmed the human capacity for disappointment and the hallucination convinces as a reality never experienced before, then I call out to myself in delight: I am only dreaming.” (Ulf Langheinrich)

Ulf Langheinrich is probably more of an obsessed researcher than a dreamer; h