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, John Bergamo and Garland himself.
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 culmination of their investigations into the aesthetic use of new technology, these two renowned leaders of Japanese experimental music used sensors and transducers on objects and in the space itself, via MIDI conversion, to trigger pianos, synthesiz…
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 electronic means to make audible the energy of the natural world, prioritizing the non-human aspects of nature. Dogane was assisted in the project by composer Mamoru Fujieda, who helped to convert the vegetal energies into audible sounds. Though they stress…
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 devices (the real one) are pasted on the front cover. The disc was mastered by D&M and cut at 45 rpm. An insert is included. Standard black vinyl pressing.
In 1991, Yuji Takahashi and Mamoru Fujieda collaborated in staging a sound installation at the Sezo…
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 culmination of their investigations into the aesthetic use of new technology, these two renowned leaders of Japanese experimental music used sensors and transducers on objects and in the space itself, via MIDI conversion, to trigger pianos, synthesiz…
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 piano are electronically-processed and modulated in various ways. "Radiated Falling" is based on "Falling Scale No. 2" for piano (1975). The series of works entitled "Falling Scale" are composed almost entirely of descending scales as their stru…