Acoustic Music

Performers from Ensemble Dal Niente: 

Amanda Deboer Bartlet - Soprano
Mabel Kwan - Piano
Tara Lynn Ramsey - Violin
Matthew Oliphant - Horn

Hammered-dulcimer part performed by: Elliott Lupp

Text by: Russell Edson
Paitning by:  Shelby McQuilkin
Recorded: 3/20/18.

The House Grows Sick... (2018, Soprano, Piano, Violin, Horn, Dulcimer)(reading)

It is the quartet's policy that they not be named in the recordings of readings

Position (2018, for String Quartet) (reading)

-  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