Fujieda received his Ph.D. in music from the University of California, San Diego in 1988. He studied composition with Joji Yuasa, Morton Feldman, Gordon Mumma and Julio Estrada, among others, and his work has been featured in performances in Japan, Europe and the United States. After his return to Japan in 1989, he began using the computer in collaborative performances with a variety of artists including John Zorn, Malcolm Goldstein, the Deep Listening Band, Mineko Grimmer and Setsuko Yamada. He organized "SoundCulture Japan '93," a festival on sound art and has been working on Interlink, a festival for new American music in Japan, as music director.