UMS PRESENTS SUPERPOSITION

Concept, direction, and music by Ryoji Ikeda

Friday Evening, October 31, 2014 at 8:00 Saturday Evening, November 1, 2014 at 8:00 Power Center • Ann Arbor

11th and 12th Performances of the 136th Annual Season International Theater Series

Photo: superposition, 2012; photographer: ©Kazuo Fukunaga/Kyoto Experiment in Kyoto Art Theater, Shunjuza. 3 4 RYOJI IKEDA | SUPERPOSITION FALL 2014 UMS without intermission. superposition Yoshito Onishi Norimichi Hirakawa Tomonaga Tokuyama and Computer System Programming, Graphics, Amélie Grould Stéphane Garin Performers Ryoji Ikeda Concept, Direction, andMusic CREATIVE TEAM Joque for theirparticipationinevents surrounding theperformances of superposition. Program; ChrisstinaHamilton andthe U-MPenny W. StampsDistinguishedSpeaker Series;andJustin Special thanks to Fred Adams, Myron Campbell, Carol Rabuck, andtheU-MSaturday Morning Physics Media partnership isprovided by WDET101.9FM. Funded inpartby theJapan Foundation through thePerforming ArtsJAPAN program. Endowment supportprovided by theDorisDuke Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund. Stuart Frankel. These performances are supported by theRenegade Ventures Fund, establishedby Maxine and PROGRAM is approximately 65minutes induration andwillbeperformed

Daisuke Sekine Production Assistant Tomonaga Tokuyama Technical Manager Simon MacColl Stage Manager Norimichi Hirakawa Optical Devices

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information. a new notion of information: quantum quantum of information: notion a new The new project project new The ARTIST STATEMENT ARTIST 6 RYOJI IKEDA | SUPERPOSITION FALL 2014 UMS J developed a system that converts any project of data that permeates our world. The to perceive theinvisible multi-substance media works that explore one’spotentials moving image,sculptural, sound, andnew present) consistsofvarious forms suchas long-term projects: datamatics (2006– Mr. Ikeda has beenworking onseveral live performancesandinstallations. and mathematical notions into immersive visuals, materials, physical phenomena, media. Heelaborately orchestrates sound, convincingly across both visual and sonic of thefew international artists working Mr. Ikeda has gained a reputation as one Japan andnow livingandworking inParis, mathematical aesthetics. BorninGifu, of both mathematical precisionand itself andthat ofvisualsaslight by means on the essential characteristics of sound 1 inwhichprobability anduncertainty an infinitegrey areabetween 0and an explanation inthenotion ofqubit, where allmathematical concepts find Ryoji Ikeda hasfinallyfound aspace mathematical beauty andsublimation, on the discrete and the continuous, superposition. alongside quantum entanglement and Quantum computing usesthisprinciple is calledtheUncertainty Principle. and speedofanatomic particle. This simultaneous valuestotheposition other words, onecannot assignexact states arereducedto aspecificstate. In an atomic particle, all superposed we measurethepositionorspeedof 0 and 1, true andfalse, onandoff.Once ARTISTS ( and visualartist RYOJI IKEDA apan’s leadingelectroniccomposer Alongside ofpure musical activity, After almost a decade of research concept, direction,music ) focuses test pattern (2008–present) has

Paris; Sónar Festival Barcelona; Tate Melbourne; MIT, Boston;Centre Pompidou, Australian Centre forthe Moving Image, worldwide at venues including the (Raster-Noton, 2001,2011). through live performance,CDs,and books modules forreal-timesound visualization, programmed music, with audiovisual repetitive loops insoftware andcomputer which examines error structures and Nicolai entitled cyclo on acollaborative project withCarsten have beeninstalled. Mr.Ikeda works Barcelona, andNagoya whereversions public locations inAmsterdam,Paris, sculptural material andsotransforming employing intense whitelight asa (2001–present) is large-scale installations of human perception. Theseriesspectra of device performanceandthethreshold the relationship between criticalpoints patterns of0sand1s,whichexamines movies into barcodepatterns andbinary type ofdata —text, sounds, photos, and quantum mechanicalsystem.Thepoints of thepure state spaceofatwo-level sphere isageometrical representation projective lineinprojective geometry. of qubitexpands tothenotion ofcomplex continuum ofrealnumbers, thegrey area coexist. Asopposed tothearithmetical Graphic: BlochSphere Mr. Ikeda has performed and exhibited Mr. Ikeda hasperformedandexhibited (In quantum mechanics, the Bloch . (2000–present), mixed states.) represents the of thesphere the interior a single qubit, pure states of represent the of thesphere on thesurface

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, Majdaneck , Auschwitz performer) caud and Jean Geoffroy. She and Jean Geoffroy. pecaud , Chelmno-Kulmhof , de Bobigny Gare She is an accomplished chamber chamber She is an accomplished music the Havre While teaching at studying flute at the age of six at the Val the Val of six at the age studying flute at school and then began ee music Maubu with later years nine percussion learning Re Beatrice three high distinctions in 2006received and music, analysis, chamber for music the same time she studiedpercussion. At She (drums). piano and jazz history, music studies in Rueil- her musical continued Malmaison, where she studied under Eve and (with high distinction in 2007) Payeur and music specialized in contemporary those music promote To theater. musical with Troïka the Trio styles, she created and percussionists, Rose Devas other two Benedicte Albanhac. Ivo with collaborated having musician, Hurel, Maresz, Philippe Yann Malec, cois Paris, Martin Giner, Fran Bruno and Philippe De Mey, Thierry Matalon, orchestras several in plays She Leroux. Circuit, Court as such ensembles and 2e2m. Arcema, and Ensemble she also to her, important is very school dancer Celine Quedeville, with the works de Theâtre company performs with theater (Maki Drums Thirteen plays l’Impossible, dance class at Ishii) with a contemporary . Since 2005, 2005, . Since Treblinka , and Sobibor in collaboration working he has been Gobart Sylvestre the visual artist with of the memory on work on an artistic II War during World extermination presents It Ukraine). Poland, (France, video) and pictures (photography recent on the very recordings taken and audio deportation, of internment, grounds was This work and extermination. Biarritz at as an installation presented Sol Del Rio Arte and at Multimedia Library in Guatemala. Gallery Contemporanea ( AMELIE GROULD , Birkenau , Drancy performer) ( ), Carl Craig, Pascal Comelade,Pascal Craig, Carl ), He is the founder of the collective “0” of the collective He is the founder (1998), (1998), +/- (1996), 0°C His albums , including Gurs works His phonography music conducted by Didier Aschour. Aschour. Didier by conducted music Dedalus, an ensemble of contemporary of contemporary Dedalus, an ensemble and Joël Merah, and is also a member of and is also a member and Joël Merah, (pronounced zero) with Sylvain Chauveau zero) with Sylvain Chauveau (pronounced

World Financial Center, New York). York). New Financial Center, World and performance project, Winter Garden, Winter and performance project, installation installation Place Detail (Giant Group von Oswald (of Basic Channel), Shua Oswald (of Basic Channel), Shua von Persepolis Moritz Madiot, Thierry Mathieu, Stephan razor-sharp technique and aesthetics. technique razor-sharp of the film (recording of the soundtrack Macé, Pierre-Yves Delplanque, Mathias world of electronic music through his his through of electronic music world Olivier Bernet including Pascal Battus, (2008) pioneered a new minimal (2008) pioneered a new pattern dancers, performers, and directors test (2005), and (2000), dataplex matrix and with musicians, Roth, François-Xavier including Pierre Boulez, Péter Eötvös, and Eötvös, Péter including Pierre Boulez, Philharmonic, under conductors music festivals and small DJ clubs. music Les Siècles Orchestre, and the Brussels d’Automne, Paris; as well as electronic well d’Automne, Paris; as GARIN STÉPHANE (EIC), Intercontemporain Ensemble Bahnhof, Berlin; Laboral, Gijon; Festival Festival Gijon; Bahnhof, Berlin; Laboral, including has performed with groups London; Museo de Arte, Bogota; Hamburger Bogota; London; Museo de Arte, Park Avenue, New York; Barbican Center, Barbican York; New Park Avenue, Nagoya; Palazzo Grassi, Venezia; Armory Venezia; Palazzo Grassi, Nagoya; Grec Festival, Barcelona; Aichi Triennale, Barcelona; Aichi Triennale, Grec Festival, New York; Ars Electronica Center, Linz; Ars Electronica Center, York; New Art Museum; Crossing the Line Festival, Crossing the Line Festival, Museum; Art Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Singapore Birmingham; Singapore Gallery, Ikon Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Tokyo; Art Contemporary of Museum for Arts and Media; Le Laboratoire, Paris; Le Laboratoire, and Media; for Arts Fresnoy, Tourcoing; Yamaguchi Center Center Yamaguchi Tourcoing; Fresnoy, Biennale; Elektra Festival Montreal; Le Montreal; Festival Elektra Biennale; Roma; lCC, Tokyo; Art Beijing; Göteborg Göteborg Beijing; Art Tokyo; lCC, Roma; Art, Dublin; Auditorium Parco della Musica,della Parco Auditorium Dublin; Art, Modern, London; Irish Museum of Modern Irish Museum London; Modern, 8 RYOJI IKEDA | SUPERPOSITION FALL 2014 UMS performed insuperposition with AUM Grand Ensemble. Shehas the saxophonist SafiaAzzoug, andplays the Val Maubue music school,plays with a moviemaker, andadesigner. artists asasoftware/hardware developer, a sandbox) andworks alongsidemany movies usingvirtual worlds (forexample, devices. Healsomakes experimental sculptures usingcoding,software, and in minute procedural paintings and of Tama Art University. Hespecializes graphics, computer system)isagraduate YOSHITO ONISHI( Venice Biennalein2012. alongside Arata Isozaki’sexhibition inthe (Sora) andtookpart ingroup shows collaboration withTakeshi Kurosawa has played inaudiovisual concerts in installation andconcert pieces.He based inParisandworks forRyoji Ikeda’s Since 2009,Mr.Tokuyama hasbeen for hiscontributions toarchitecture. for the Iakov Chernikhov Prize in 2010 developing software. Hewas nominated and Junya Ishigamiindesigningand with architectssuchasKengoKuma programming. Mr.Tokuyama hasworked architecture, info-graphics, and in the fields of audiovisual art, Research Center.internationally Heworks FABRICA, Benetton’s Communications University andwent on ascholarshipwith manager) graduated fromKyoto graphics, computer system, technical TOMONAGA TOKUYAMA( programming, since 2012. programming, programming, SEKINE d’Architecture in2012,DAISUKE After graduating fromtheEcoleSpéciale with Typingmonkeys. Design week; anddonelive performances in theLexus Art Exhibitionat Milan Kimura, and Benedict Drew; participated collaborated withYoshihide Otomo,Yuki piece productionwithRyoji Ikeda; activities, hehasworked onaconcert in 2008.Involved inawiderange of of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica Art Festival in2004 andtheAward Excellence Prizeat theJapan Media received many awards includingthe media art festivals.Mr.Hirakawa has international art exhibitions aswell as and hasbeenshown at national and programmed audio visual installations on real-timeprocessedandcomputer system, optical devices ) work isfocused ( NORIMICHI HIRAKAWA their UMSdebuts thisweekend. superposition company asthey make UMS welcomes Ryoji Ikeda andthe Speciale” inwinter 2011. practice ARCHIEE was awarded “Prix extend hisarchitectural domain.His social scientist, philosopher, etc.) to interdisciplinary profiles(artist, scientist, In hiswork, heoften works alongside Architects inParisandTamon inTokyo. collaborated withDorell.Ghotmeh.Tane/ France. Before setting up his practice, he research anddesignunitinParis, ARCHIEE, aninternational architecture programming, graphics, computer ( production assistant)

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