Cikada Ensemble
BCA19
Ankara, Turkey

Instrumentation: Fl, Cl, Pno, Perc, Vl.1, Vl.2, Vla, VC, D.B.
Live Record

Sheida: https://soundcloud.com/mohammad-h-javaheri/sheida-for-ensemble

Painting: Zoheir Javaheri

Devenir fou par amour_Sheid/V2 (for ensemble) | 2019

Takuto Fukuda is a composer, multimedia artist, and gestural controller performer. Viewing art as a medium for insight-sharing, he uses music technologies to question preconceived boundaries of human conditions, such as those 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.

Fukuda’s work has been recognized internationally with accolades from the Groundswell Composer Competition 2025 (Canada), the ICU International Composers Contest (Ukraine), and ISMIR 2020 (Canada). His compositions have been performed by leading ensembles such as Ensemble Intercontemporain (France), Vertixe Sonora Ensemble (Spain), Ensemble Paramirabo (Canada), and the Ligeti Quartet (UK), and featured at major festivals including Ars Electronica (Austria), ISCM World Music Days (South Korea), and ICMC (Slovenia, Greece, USA), among others.

After receiving a Doctor of Music in Composition from McGill University, he has pursued postdoctoral studies at Concordia University, where he has developed a Mixed Reality system for his opera on neurodiversity. Since September 2025, he has been serving as an Assistant Professor with fixed-term contract at the Electronic Music and Media Art department at the University of Pécs, Hungary.

www.artuncekem.com
a_cekem@hotmail.com

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Profile art: Christian Rex van Minnen
Cover art: Mario Panciera

My CCRMA Page:
https://soundcloud.com/moha-ccrma
My Film Scoring/Side Page:
https://soundcloud.com/mohammad-h-javaheri-2
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Composer, Performer
Member of DKV, DEFKOM, and FEM

Mohammad H. Javaheri (1989-), an Iranian composer and performer from Tehran, has gained recognition for his interest in dense, powerful masses of sound and crafting complex textures. He has been named as a promising future composer and internationally in-demand by Germany's NMZ newspaper and Thuringian state newspaper, respectively. Moreover, he received attention in various news articles, including the LA Times. His music has been characterized as 'tense’, 'sensational’, and 'detailed'; and he inherently crafts his ‘own sound’ (Toshio Hosokawa, SYNTHETIS 2019). His versatile compositions span various forms, including electronic and acoustic elements, and have received international awards. His creative focus has consistently revolved around the concepts of "Cycle, Repetition, Trans-formative Blocks," and the interplay of speed with the structure of his compositions, along with the human psyche's evolution, delving into the profound impact of incidents and traumas on human psychology. His music vividly captures the cyclical nature of these changes and their lasting effects on emotions, actions, and life decisions. His pieces have been performed by well-known artists, ensembles, and orchestras worldwide, featured on platforms like SWR2 Radio, and published by Babelscores, Score Follower, and UCLA Music Library.
In 2024, he was awarded an EDGE Fellowship by Stanford University, positioning him to become a member of the cross-disciplinary community of scholars at Stanford.

Damián Gorandi (Argentinean, born in 1991). He has finished his master in composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the class of Stefano Gervasoni. He attended the CURSUS IRCAM  in Composition and in Computer Music in Paris. 


Also, he has finished his higher studies of composition at the Haute école des arts du Rhin Strasbourg. He studied electroacoustic music at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, Germany. In Argentina he obtained the superior title of professor in composition at the Alberto Ginastera Conservatory. 


He has worked with instrumental ensembles such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Accroche Note, Ensemble Next, Ensemble L'Imaginaire, Ensemble Platyplus, Ensemble Names, the Untref string quartet, the Barcelona Modern Ensemble, Ensemble Fractals, Ensemble Synaesthesis, Ensemble Intercolor,  Ensemble arthaus, among others.


His music is frequently programmed in Europe, North and South America and Asia in festivals as Manifeste (Paris), Festival Présence (Paris), Festival Musica (Strasbourg), Festival Impuls (Vienne/Graz),National Philharmonic of Moscow, Next generation at the ZKM (Germany), the Festival Nycemf in New York, the Festival Crossroads Mozarteum (Vienne), Samplers Series (L’auditori, Barcelona), in the CCK (Buenos Aires), Seoul International Computer Music Festiva (Korea), Le festival Arsmondo organized by L'Opéra national du Rhin, Among, others.


He has followed the teachings of Stefano Gervasoni, Luis Naon, Yan Maresz, Daniel D'Adamo, Tom Mays, Jorge Sad, Elsa Justel, Robin Minard, Joao Pedro Oliveira, Thierry de Mey.


He has won many international prizes, some of them like the international impuls composition competition, Ina-GRM - Concours Banc d'Essai, 1st Prix Internationale Sommerakademie Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien 2018, 1 ̊ Prize Taukay Edizioni Musicali international composition competition, the 1 ̊  Prize Russolo,  Prix foundation Salabert, International prix Ibermusicas. 1 ̊ prize of the Fundation Destellos, 1 ̊ prize KLANG! International Composition, 1 ̊ prize in the international competitions of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar, 2 ̊ prize in the international competition Via nova contemporary music Thüringen, among others. From Argentina he won the 1 ̊ Sadaic prize,    1 ̊ Trinac prize (2016 and 2017), The prix "Juan carlos Paz", 1 ̊ Triarg Prize, among others. 


He has been invited as judge in several international competitions such as the competition of Fundation Destellos or the Iannis Xenakis International Electronic Music Competition (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). As professor has been invited by the Haute école des arts de Berne to give courses and lessons in composition. 


He received the support of Gisela Timmermann grant from the Mozarteum Argentino, from Ibermusicas, from the Conservatoire de Strasbourg after winning the Notoriety scholarship from fondation de France, and also from Cité internationale universitaire de Paris.


Professor of computer music at the conservatory  of Beauvais (France).
Member of the Destellos foundation.