MAMORU FUJIEDA

Planetary Folklore

Seven piano pieces played by Aki Takahashi including Falling Scale, a mid-70s piece using just descending scales, and Planetary Folklore, based on a retrograde canon by J.S. Bach. (Japanese Import)

Ecological Plantron

A collaborative project with botanist Yuji Dogane using a bioelectric interface which mediates between various "lives." A piece conceived from the viewpoint of plants themselves by employing leaf potentials to influence sonic events, much like brain waves can be used as sonic sources and triggers. (Japanese Import)

The Night Chant

Combines computer-controlled synthesizer intonation with Buddhist chant by Makiko Sakurai, ancient Japanese instruments, Indonesian gamelan modes, Navajo text and the audible sculpture of Mineko Grimmer.

Plantron Mind

A new album, to be released in Spirng, 1996, which further elaborates on the material developed with bioelectric interfacing. (Japanese Import)

Mamoru Fujieda

Fujieda received his Ph.D. in music from the University of California, San Diego in 1988. He studied composition with Joji Yuasa, Morton Feldman, Gordon Mumma and Julio Estrada, among others, and his work has been featured in performances in Japan, Europe and the United States. After his return to Japan in 1989, he began using the computer in collaborative performances with a variety of artists including John Zorn, Malcolm Goldstein, the Deep Listening Band, Mineko Grimmer and Setsuko Yamada. He organized "SoundCulture Japan '93," a festival on sound art and has been working on Interlink, a festival for new American music in Japan, as music director.

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