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.


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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.

Baltimore–based composer and arranger
Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University
Taipei National University of the Arts

-  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

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Kristopher Bendrick