Takuto Fukuda (b.1984/Japan) is a composer, sound artist and gestural controller performer pursuing his D.Mus in composition at McGill University. He has been researching the enhancement of liveness - what makes music live such as spontaneity, corporeality and interactivity. His approaches encompass, among others, gestural control of music, interactive audiovisual installations and Game Pieces. His BLUE project focuses on Gamification of Human-Computer Interaction in Audiovisual Performance. His pieces have been prized at several competitions such as Andrew Svoboda Memorial Prize (Canada), CCMC 2011 (Japan) and Musica Nova 2010 (Czech).

Talk to Takuto about: train, gamification of music performance, and terrible Canadian food.