Titles by Janice Tanaka
- Grass or When the Rain Falls on the Water Does the Fish Get Any Wetter
- Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
- Janice Tanaka: Selected Works
- Memories from the Department of Amnesia
- No Hop Sing. No Bruce Lee: What do you do when none of your heroes look like you?
- Superhuman Flights of Submoronic Fancies
- Who's going to pay for these donuts, anyway?
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Striking images of human figures, landscape and architecture shape this video opera. Computer-animated sequences accompany brilliant studies of motion, where performers move through a landscape that remembers history. Structured in five separate acts and four interludes, the work demands to be read according to the title principle, which states that one must consider the whole while examining each component separately, remembering that each part affects the others. This, Tanaka suggests, is the only way to examine the past. Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle both celebrates and laments the creative and destructive nature of human history.
Conceived/Composed/Written/Directed: Janice Tanaka. Musical Score: Doug Lofstrom. Performers: Chicago Lyric Opera. Animators: Melanie Annis, Sandra Little. Editors: Marilyn Wulff, Janice Tanaka. Graphics: Paul Marvine, Janice Tanaka. Graphics Editors: Greg Snider, Marilyn Wulff, Janice Tanaka. Camera: Bret Mann, Janice Tanaka. Lighting Design: Janice Tanaka.
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