Flora Canou
Flora Canou (born 1999), also known as Fumica, is a composer, music theorist, and wiki editor based in Beijing, China.
Fumica entered microtonalism in March 2020 after watching Superstar Saga's 19edo introduction series on YouTube, so she began her microtonal journey with 19 equal temperament. As a pianist, she had learned about Pythagorean tuning, meantone tunings, well temperaments, and the equal temperament, but had never thought about a temperament with more or less than twelve pitch classes. Working with 19 equal temperament immediately inspired her to start renovating and expanding common-practice harmony, which finally had her settled on the dreamland of regular temperament theory.
It all took place in the period when she was building her own musical style and techniques. Her later works has been prog, as she incorporates and fuses elements from classical, electronic, and rock music, in line with her multilayered background of musical education and experience. As of 2025, Op. 5 Notes of the Generation still represents her most characteristic and mature microtonal composition.
She produces with FL Studio and scores with MuseScore. She has a Novation Launchpad Pro MK3 and has designed and implemented a layout to play microtonal music on it.
Discography
Microtonal releases
- Op. 4A. Undevicesimal Fugues Vol. 1 (2020) – 2-piece extended play in 19et
- Op. 4B. Undevicesimal Fugues Vol. 2 (2024) – 2-piece extended play in 19et
- Op. 5. Notes of the Generation (2023) – 8-piece album in 41et
- Op. 6. TBA
- Op. 7. TOTMC Suite Vol. 1 (2023) – 2-piece extended play in porcupine and modus
12et releases
- Op. 1. Eruption in Silence (2016–2018)
- Op. 2. Favonius (2018–2020)
- Op. 3. Avant l'Avenir (2020–2022)
Collaborations
- Folly of a Drunk (2024) – in 24et – an arrangement for the progressive chamber orchestra, based on Aura's work