Takuto Fukuda
Year of birth, place
Role at the ZKM
- Guest Artist
Institute / Department
- Hertz-Lab
Biography
Takuto Fukuda is a Japanese composer, sound artist, and gestural controller performer. He is currently exploring mixed reality compositions which is a hybrid format of music wherein a real and virtual performance are juxtaposed one another. This format is based on Fukuda’s hypothesis that mixed reality became a new authenticity of music performance after the age of telematic concerts during the COVID-19 pandemic. His pieces delineate a blurred boundary between physical, recorded and computer-generated performances. Fukuda’s works have been prized at several competitions such as ICU International Composers Contest (Ukraine), Andrew Svoboda Memorial Prize (Canada), ISMIR2020 (Canada) and Musica Nova 2010 (Czech Republic), selected for performance at numerous music festivals such as Ars Electronica (Austria), ISCM World Music Days 2016 (Korea) and ICMCS (Slovenia, Greece, USA), and performed at prestigious institutes such as IRCAM (France), CIRMMT (Canada), CCRMA (USA), and ZKM | Karlsruhe. He is currently pursuing his D.Mus. in composition at McGill University with Sean Ferguson, and affiliated with CIRMMT (Canada).
Author: Takuto Fukuda