Elliott Lupp - Composer
Improviser // Audio Engineer // Educator // Visual Artist
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Short Bio
Elliott Lupp is a composer, visual artist, improviser, audio engineer, drummer, and educator. His research and musical interests range from works for solo musician and chamber ensembles to multimedia projects with lights and video. He is inspired by the way works of art can foster connection, purpose, and emotion through in-person, dramatic, sensory experiences. This has prompted an ongoing curiosity and consideration of audience perception, presence, and a desire for deeper engagement, as well as an awareness of how his work functions within a broader artistic ecosystem.
His creative process typically involves some amount of journaling and doodling, as well as improvising and experimenting with sound, tactile objects, light, Western tonality, digital technologies, and samples from a range of popular media. These materials are often subjected to a variety of harsh manipulative processes to produce gradual or sudden shifts between familiarity and the unknown, confusion and confidence, and stability and fragility. The result is a body of work that frequently showcases dramatic collisions of harsh noise and tonality, acoustic and electroacoustic sounds, and chaotic tension and release.
Elliott is currently a Faculty Specialist Lecturer at Western Michigan University where he teaches courses in composition, electronic music techniques, computer music design, aural skills, and music theory.
Elliott also plays drums for the experimental noise brass band, Disco Behemoth.
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NEWS
Nov 6th and 7th // live-scoring of Night of the Living Dead with Disco Behemoth // Kalamazoo, Mi
October 29th // Premiere: Brux No 2 // CMIX at Western Michigan University
September 3rd // Disco Behemoth at the Runoff // Kalamazoo, Mi
September 2nd // Premiere: three small pieces for clarinet // Mady Johnson // Western Michigan University
June 21 // Disco Behemoth at Glowhall // Kalamazoo, Mi
June 24th // Disco Behemoth at the Pyramid Scheme // Grand Rapids, Mi
May 29th // minus // New Thread Saxophone Quartet // New York (TBD)
April 27th // a warp along the length of the face // Will Yager // University of Northern Iowa
March 24th // RUCKUS RUCKUS // Kyle Hutchins and Kendra Wheeler // Virginia Tech
June 6th // The OVERUNDERWHELM (2025) // Varo String Quartet // Ryan Opera Theater, Evanston
PART 1: wonder ball
PART 2: kitchen corner threnody
PART 3: sugar cookie heartfetti
PART 4: burn-in blowout
PART 5: bask
minus // Performers: Nois Quartet
STRIX // Kelly Quesada
Windows 1-5 // Justin Ortez
June 5th // a warp along the length of the face (2021) // Will Yager //Florida State University
November 12th // Away From Face // Electric Chamber Orchestra (EChO) // Florida State University College of Music
Aug 2026 - Became Faculty Lecturer at Western Michigan University (Composition, Music Technology, Theory, and Aural Skills)
Aug 2025 - Began teaching at Western Michigan University - Instructor of record (Composition and Music Technology)
Awarded ASQ funding Award (Advanced Student Quarter) for Dissertation research | 2025
1st place winner of the 2024 Faricy Award | 2024
Winner of international CIME Prix 2023 Residency Award | 2023
1st place winner of the international 2023 MA/IN Award (Category B) | 2023
STRIX featured ScoreFollower Youtube Channel - follow my score | 2023
Away from Face featured on Incipisify Youtube Channel - follow my score | 2022
All-University Award in Graduate Research and Creative Scholarship | 2019
Departmental Award in Graduate Research and Creative Scholarship | 2019
2nd place winner of the international ASCAP/SEAMUS Commission Competition | 2019
1st place winner of Fisk: Franklin G. Fisk Composition Award for Chamber Music | 2019
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