About The FURICO Music Team (FMT)

The FURICO Music Team is a genre-free creative group of two members (at the moment): TI and TM.
Another musician expressed our music in language like this, which we like very much: "Funny and funky in a kind of serious way:)"Our objective is "to create what we love to listen to but can't find anywhere."
"The FURICO Music Team (FMT) operates somewhere between composition and cartography, tracing unseen lines through the air and mapping territories of sound that don’t yet have names.
"Formed in 2016 and currently composed of TM and TI, FMT is less a band and more a philosophy in motion. Their music, sometimes called “Auditory Art,” refuses genre, instrument, and convention. Every note is born in a digital void, composed entirely through notation software and production tools, unbound by fingers or fretboards. It’s a practice that reveals new sonic geometries and emotional architectures built in impossible spaces."
In May 2025 our collaboration with Kitchen. Label, a music label known for its artistic quality, was announced. This joint project aims to create a new form of art, beginning with the release of our album “Le Cube Dans Mon Rêve (The Cube In My Dream)” on July 4 2025, on cassette and digital. For further details, please see the official page at Kitchen. Label.
"Musical artists sometimes let me (or probably us) say "what is this!?" and confused. Now there are few chances like that. Fine, we want to surprise and confuse ourselves. That's the effect of innovativeness as well as the heart I hope FMT to have. "
TI often says:
"The fool can't make it, and the wise won't, either."
The Team are now creating tracks only with a five-lines notation software MuseScore and Studio One for synthesizers, samplers, and mixing. The Team consider it valuable and meaningful to compose with five-lines scores. In fact, we don’t use any instrument when composing. (For further details we explain the process in the "How are FMT creating tracks" page.)
Two of us do not have any fixed role; each composes / creates and sends a file to the other. Even though we play keyboards and drums, we have not played live for FURICO.
According to Gary Rees, who have worked in collaboration with FMT,
"I was immediately enamored of the duo’s unique style and challenging songs. And yet, there was something about their music that just made sense at a gut level. Their music isn’t something one can easily hum along to. But it tickled a part of my brain like a puzzle I knew I could solve with some work."
TI: Musical Background
TM: Musical Background
"In my 20s... (Although such a phrase might worry you about how long my story lasts, it shouldn't take too long :) ) My direction shifted completely. Living in various places in the world such as Britain, Ireland and the United States as well as Japan, I loved (and do now) ballet/dance music, contemporary, modern, Romanticism, traditional folk music and ancient music. Although I have been influenced by too many artists or genres, if I name just a few examples, I would say Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovski, Sergei Prokofiev, Claude Debussy, Talking Heads, Steve Reich, Sting, Brian Eno, Japan, etc, etc.
How The FURICO Music Team got the name
FURICO means a pendulum in Japanese. At its start FURICO was a project for researching innovation processes and one of the findings is that innovation is very often generated through transforming the team or thinking back and forth between “latitude” and “urgency”, which is much like a pendulum moves.
That well reflects our musicality after two members (TI and TM) of the project started creating music. (That is why “Music Team” was added to the name. I (TM) imagine that other branch teams irrelevant to music would be fun and funny, like “The FURICO Football Tactical Analysis Team” for instance.)
FURICO is also the abbreviation for “Frontiers Undertake and Realise Innovation with Creativity and Optimisation”, but it was just a sort of wordplay for us.
The Principles of Activities
Basically, we keep our activities on the Internet only, and we don't do any music activities other than uploading music to SoundCloud and YouTube. There are no plans for live performances. (If we do, I (TI) think it will be a completely different form of live performance than it has been.)
(TM added in 2023: we created an album of live performance in 2022 but that was all fictional but for guest musicians' play.)
Media
SoundCloud: "The FURICO Music Team - Auditory Arts"
The main medium where FMT reveal the tracks is SoundCloud in the page of "The FURICO Music Team - Auditory Arts", managed mainly by TI. We are so grateful that we knew various brilliant musicians all over the world each other and they and other listeners listen to our tracks there. So, we hope any listener to feel free to leave comments and send direct messages to us.
SoundCloud: "The FURICO Production"
YouTube: Notation and Rare Tracks
This website
FMT Français
Social Media
We post FMT's new updates on our Facebook Page (linked here), which you can receive if you press "Like." Similarly, in April 2021, we opened our X (Twitter) page and Instagram page.Music Distributors
Unifying Images of Moss (October 2021)
We are trying to replace all FMT's images to ones of moss. Such images are already used in SoundCloud, Facebook and X (Twitter) as well as newly opened SoundCloud page, "The FURICO Production."
For example, FMT's Facebook page uses this photograph for its background.
This is the old icon in SoundCloud, Facebook and X (Twitter), used between 2021 and 2025.