Fukui Ryu
"I mainly make instrumental music. At first, I was more interested in the acoustic aspects of sound — how different parts of a wardrobe could be set in motion through different chords and detuning.
Lately, I’ve been experimenting more with a compositional approach.
With my most recent release, “o o o a lu v koma,” I tried to work with fewer elements than in my previous pieces. The result feels a little empty, but I still like it to some extent. I sampled my own drum recordings and played the melodies using a Moog synthesizer. What I like about synthesis is how you can travel to so many different places without even leaving your seat — a kind of voyager experience.
When I perform live, I don’t really play live in the traditional sense; I mostly just play back things I’ve already made. It’s a little like freestyling, at least in the sense that things can become somewhat formulaic. I arrive at my melodies and sounds through a lot of refining, reworking, and experimentation.
I’ll bring some existing recordings, including older pieces, as well as one or two new ones.
There’s a passage I came across recently in a piece of writing about music that I really liked:
“ The overtones closer to the fundamental seem to contribute more or more perceptibly to the total phenomenon of the tone — tone accepted as euphonious, suitable for art — while the more distant seem to contribute less or less perceptibly. But it is quite certain that they all do contribute more or less, that of the acoustical emanations of the tone nothing is lost. And it is just as certain that the world of feeling somehow takes into account the entire complex, hence the more distant overtones as well.”
https://fukuiryu.bandcamp.com/
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Takuto Fukuda is a composer, multimedia artist, and gestural controller performer. Viewing art as a medium for insight-sharing, he uses technologies to highlight contemporary human conditions, such as the blurred boundaries between human and non-human, normal and abnormal, and able and disabled. His creative practice spans a wide range of media and styles: from mixed media compositions integrating audiovisual content and live performers, to gamified works enabling real-time, interactive, and chance-based music-making, as well as music for digital musical instruments like the T-Stick and the Tray.
Fukuda’s work has been recognised internationally with accolades from the GroundSwell Composer Competition 2025 (Canada), the ICU International Composers Contest (Ukraine), and ISMIR 2020 (Canada), and has been performed by leading ensembles such as Ensemble Intercontemporain (France), Vertixe Sonora Ensemble (Spain), Ensemble Paramirabo (Canada), and the Ligeti Quartet (UK).
He holds a Doctor of Music in Composition from McGill University and has been serving as Assistant Professor in Electronic Music and Media Arts at the University of Pécs since 2025.