The Four Food Groups IV - Please Don't Be A Walnut

Performed by Tak Ensemble
Laura Cocks, flute
Madison Greenstone, clarinet
Marina Kifferstein, violin
Ellery Trafford, percussion
Charlotte Mundy, voice

Text by  Russell Edson

Premiered at The Annenberg Center: University of Pennsylvania

The Four Food Groups IV - Please Don't Be A Walnut

The Four Food Groups III - Oatmeal

Performed by Tak Ensemble
Laura Cocks, flute
Madison Greenstone, clarinet
Marina Kifferstein, violin
Ellery Trafford, percussion
Charlotte Mundy, voice

Text by Russell Edson

Premiered at The Annenberg Center: University of Pennsylvania

The Four Food Groups III - Oatmeal

The Four Food Groups II - The Big Bird

Performed by Tak Ensemble
Laura Cocks, flute
Madison Greenstone, clarinet
Marina Kifferstein, violin
Ellery Trafford, percussion
Charlotte Mundy, voice

Text by Russell Edson

Premiered at The Annenberg Center: University of Pennsylvania

The Four Food Groups II - The Big Bird

The Four Food Groups I - The Jelly Sandwich

Performed by Tak Ensemble
Laura Cocks, flute
Madison Greenstone, clarinet
Marina Kifferstein, violin
Ellery Trafford, percussion
Charlotte Mundy, voice

Text by Russell Edson

Premiered at The Annenberg Center: University of Pennsylvania

The Four Food Groups I - The Jelly Sandwich

This piece uses fragments of text from a guide on how to beat the point- and-click video game "Eric the Unready". The walkthrough assumes that you've tried to play the game before, so it doesn't bother providing context for its directions. The result is a series of directions that are strange and absurdist; creating a narrative that is semi-followable but deeply meaningless.


This Walkthrough Assumes That You Tried

Performed by Sonic Hedgehog
Shanna Guitierrez - flute
Wiek Hijmans - guitar
Fie Schouten - bass clarinet
febr 2016, Chicago

Aether Me Nothing

Turkey Grenade

Through The Eyeball And Into The Brain

I - Needle Noise (Improv For Manipulated Laptop Feedback)

III - TV Talk (Improv for Manipulated Laptop Feedback)

teethmarks

progressively smaller TVs

semi-human//semi-sentient

For organ, live electronics, fixed media, & live video processing

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A video with the score can be found there.

Special thanks to Graeme Shields for the amazing performance!

smokestacks

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.

Kristopher Bendrick

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