The first in a series of experimental pieces for I-pad controlled laptop.

Performed and recoded by: Elliott Lupp

Brux No. 1 (2019, for iPad controlled Laptop)

Benjamin J. Penwell writes music and lives in Chicago. He is a PhD candidate in Composition & Music Technology at Northwestern University, and holds degrees from Boston University (M.Mus, Composition & Music Theory) and University of Oregon (B.Mus, Composition).  //  His music explores texture & timbre, drone & sustain, quiet & silence, noise & consonance, beating & acoustic phenomena, and tuning & microtonality. He likes fermatas.  //  He is interested in extreme metal, ambient and drone music, harsh noise, and early music.  //  He likes guitar pedals & digital sound processing, distortion & power chords, reverb & delay, synthesis & sound design, and recording & audio editing.

Kristopher is a Lawrence, KS based composer teaching music composition and technology at the University of Kansas. He recently received a PhD in Music Composition from the University of Pennsylvania as a Benjamin Franklin fellow and has a Master's of Music Composition from Western Michigan University and a Bachelor's of Music from Columbia College Chicago.

acoustic/electroacoustic composer in Athens, GA

Composer / Sound Designer for Film & Animation

-  Elliott Lupp is a composer, improvisor, visual artist, and sound designer whose work often invokes images of the distorted, chaotic, visceral, and absurd. This aesthetic approach as it relates to both acoustic and electroacoustic composition has led to a body of work that, at the root of its construction, focuses on the manipulation of noise, extreme gesture, shifting timbre, and performer/computer improvisation as core elements. 

- Elliott has received a number of awards and honors for his work, including a 2019 SEAMUS/ASCAP Commission, the 2019 Franklin G. Fisk Composition Award for Chamber Music, and Departmental and All-University awards in Graduate Research and Creative Scholarship. His music has been performed at a variety of electroacoustic festivals including N_SEME, CHIMEfest, Electronic Music Midwest, MOXsonic, Fulcrumpoint New Music Project, SEAMUS, and Electroacoustic Barn Dance, and by such ensembles as the Dutch/American trio Sonic Hedgehog (flute, clarinet, and electric guitar), the Atar Piano Trio, Found Sound New Music Ensemble, various members of MOCREP, The Chicago Composer's Orchestra, Fonema Consort, and Ensemble Dal Niente. 

PhD - Northwestern University (currently pursuing) - Alex Mincek, Jay Alan Yim

MM - Western Michigan University - Christopher Biggs, Lisa R. Coons

BM - Columbia College Chicago - Eliza Brown, Kenn Kumpf