Ulf Langheinrich








	DRIFT


DRIFT © Ulf Langheinrich PHOTOS		DRIFT’s intent is to translate abstract forms of image and sound in both art and music into the cinematic space. The very superior image quality of the high definition digital formats and the technical set up of modern cinemas can be utilised as an extended space for art production. Granular Synthesis internationally renowned work is comprised of specially commissioned space installations and live performances. The standardised environment of a cinema can provide another option for presenting art, but the work must be able function within the cinema’s specific set up. From a realistic image, a stream of abstract images and sounds evolves, a stream of picturesquely deep and dense images, transparent and fine in resolution and detail. A process of multiple metamorphoses in a number of parallel space and time layers constantly reforms their consistency, viscosity and transparency. The permeation, stacking and re-visualisation of such layers is almost symphonic, but does not separate areas of certain characteristics into chapters or movements. The absence of signs or objects in the audiovisual meta-movement within DRIFT gives an impression of a primal and total aesthetic matter. Such a situation is contrary to how a viewer seeks to track and observe elements of a plot. The sound-image flow arrives gradually, generating a delicate and subtle tension. The continuously interwoven sound and image flow then creates density, richness, convincingness, like an epic film which looks both syn-aesthetically sober and at times even empty. The author understands DRIFT as a suggestive environment, a unification of some aspects of his previous work in the fine arts, mainly as painter, and the achievements of more than 10 year’s work as an electronic artist primarily within Granular-Synthesis. Image and visual composition: Ulf Langheinrich Compositing: Wolfgang Schwarzenbrunner Compositing assistance: Gerhard Daurer, Brandon Tay, Tanja Tomic, Bernhard Zoesmayer Software: Dirk Langheinrich Production management Accra: Silvio Canazei Production management Lisboa: Herwig Turk Music and sound design: Ulf Langheinrich Festival d’Art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence version Director: Stéphane Lissner Curator: Antoine Manceau Cello: Béatrice Reibel English horn: Luca Mariani French horn: Nicolas Chedmail Bass clarinet: Joris Rühl Musical assistance: Roman Gerold Wien Modern version Curator: Berno Odo Polzer Bass clarinet: Petra Stump, Heinz-Peter Linshalm, Oliver Darnhofer Bassoon: Maria Gstettner, Lorelei Dowling, Tamara Joseph Musical assistance: Daniel Kranawitter China Academy of Arts Hangzhou version Department of new media arts Director: Prof. Zhang Peili Additional orchestral instruments: Vienna Symphonic Library Industrial acoustic environments: Spittelau Waste Incineration Plant Vienna Studio playback system provided by Klangfarbe Wien Produced by ACMI Australian centre for the moving image Melbourne Curator: Mike Stubbs Co-produced by EPIDEMIC / Paris — Curator: Richard Castelli MUFFATWERK/ Munich — Curator: Dietmar Lupfer Supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes Germany, Siemens Kuturstiftung, Federal Chancellery of Austria, Department of the Arts, RMIT Melbourne, Goethe Institut Melbourne Special thanks Florence Berthaud, Céline Dal, Sarah Ford, Martin Fritz, Keely Macarow, Marc Ries, Rudolph Schauer, Karl Heinz Stroehle, Dajuin Yao