Rikuto Fujimoto

Rikuto Fujimoto was born and raised in Kyoto. He studied composition at Tokyo University of the Arts. While Riktuo’s main instruments are piano and clarinet, he was drawn to the former when he was only 2 or 3 years old. He was taught piano and solfège at an early age, on an old upright piano at home, listening to his mother play, and then learning to copy the music from TV commercials before eventually falling in love with Bach’s Chorales.

Rikuto has previously produced multimedia art that combines video and synthesised sonics, and in a very short space of time completed a significant series of commissions as an arranger and producer, remixing other artists' songs and producing sound logos for radio stations, fashion shows, film scores, galleries, government-funded public installations, and the Japanese entertainment empire Genda GiGO. In 2023, he took part in an ambient workshop, held for Tokyo teens, and he participated in NHK Historical drama Dosuru Ieyasu.

Rikuto’s style ranges widely, from aggressive electronics to meditative ambient to quiet classical pieces. In the past, he’s drawn inspiration from “duality”, “light and Shadow”, “the coexistence of the man-made world with nature”, a fluidity, and how colour relates to sound. While he learned the intricate and experimental know-how of contemporary music in his school years, he found his style in simple and universal music. His musical sensibility was sharpened more than ever as he confronted himself under the pandemic, during which he put together his debut album, 'Distant Landscapes'.