Mamoru Fujieda
Mamoru Fujieda is a Japanese composer born in 1955 and associated with postminimalism. He studied with Joji Yuasa, Morton Feldman, Gordon Mumma and Julio Estrada and earned a PhD in music at the University of California, San Diego. His series Patterns of Plants takes its melodies from electrical signals measured on the leaves of living plants. Mamoru Fujieda's early piano works Falling Scale No. 6 and Single-Level Diffraction I appear on Piano Horizon, an ALM Records LP played by Akemi Satomi and shared with Yoriaki Matsudaira.
Mary Jane Leach, Gordon Mumma, Charles Amirkhanian, Peter Garland, John Zorn, Lois V. Vierk, Gordon Monahan, Mamoru Fujieda, Sarah Hopkins, John Bergamo
Soundings XVI (book)16th volume of the Soundings collection of scores and texts edited by Peter Garland published in 1990 and including works by John Zorn, Sarah Hopkins, Lois V Vierk, Mary Jane Leach, Mamoru Fujieda, Charles Amirkhanian, Gordon Mumma, Gordon Monahan, J…
Piano Horizon (LP)
Beautiful 1981 album on ALM of 1970's experimental keyboard music by two Japanese composers performed by Akemi Satomi, including the stunning Erixatione for multi-tracked electric pianos. With insert.
Music for "Cyber Café"
In 1991, Yuji Takahashi and Mamoru Fujieda collaborated in staging a sound installation at the Sezon Museum of Art in Tokyo, making extensive use of the new artistic possibilities provided by the advent of personal computers. In this installation, a …
Ecological Plantron
Ecological Plantron was a CD released in 1994, the audio document of an installation held in 1994 at a gallery in Tokyo. The Plantron is a bioelectric interface developed by botanist Yuji Dogane; it was designed to give voice to plants, using electro…
Music for "Cyber Café"
Reproduction of the print pattern of the flyer for the "Ikebukuro Cyber Café" event held in 1991 on the cover, a center hole on the back side, a reproduction of the original cassette index of "Computer Café Music" and an IC board for electronic devic…
Music for "Cyber Café"
In 1991, Yuji Takahashi and Mamoru Fujieda collaborated in staging a sound installation at the Sezon Museum of Art in Tokyo, making extensive use of the new artistic possibilities provided by the advent of personal computers. In this installation, a …
Radiated Falling. Obscure Tape Music of Japan vol. 11
Mamoru Fujieda is a Japanese post-minimalist composer, and Edition Omega Point releases some of his work from the early '80s. Both "Radiated Falling" (1980) and "The Art Of Fugue" (1981) are tape compositions in which sound materials of a prepared…