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.