ULRIK VINCENT^DK

Experience composer and sound artist Ulrik Vincent’s interactive sound installation Parallel Truths, which explores the bright and dark sides of the mind through auditory hallucinations, inner voices, and overthinking as shared sound experiences.  

The work is performed live during First Days in Roskilde Festival’s community garden GROW, where sound moves in and around plant beds filled with living materials. Voices and sound fragments are activated through movement and presence, while the plants function as living carriers – a sonic archive of inner experiences that can be shared without explanation.  

Festivalgoers can contribute with personal confessions, stories, and truths, recorded through the plants and transformed within the interactive sound space. The result is a shared listening environment where the many states of the mind can exist side by side.  

The performance features a live intervention by audiovisual composer Jirasol, improvising with sound and surroundings to create a shared sonic space where the usual boundaries between humans and plants begin to dissolve. 

Ulrik Vincent is a composer and sound artist specialising in multichannel and ambisonic sound at the intersection of art, perception, and mental health. He has developed participatory sound projects with psychiatric users in collaboration with the Center for Art and Mental Health, supported by the Roskilde Festival Foundation. He also facilitates programs for patients with schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and related mental health conditions. He is currently an artistic researcher-in-residence at the AIR Lab at the IT University of Copenhagen.  

He has been nominated for the New York Climate Film Festival and the Odense Film Festival.  

Parallel Truths is created with performative contributions from Ludmilla Faber Striim and Nanna Eide, and with the artistic development of the plant beds by Emilie Bausager.