Elliott Lupp - Composer
Audio Engineer // Educator // Visual Artist
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Elliott Lupp’s compositional and technological interests are multi-faceted, ranging from works for solo musician/chamber ensembles to multimedia projects inspired by popular genres. His process often shifts from project to project, but typically involves journaling, doodling, painting, improvising and recording with balloons, glass, wood, and other physical objects. His work mirrors these pre-compositional practices, consistently gravitating toward manipulation and collision of noise, extreme gesture, fluctuating energy, shifting timbre, sampling, and performer–computer improvisation and interaction. He is deeply influenced by pop culture, memes, film, mental health, humor, musical theater, and nostalgia, alongside a persistent drive for experimentation and discovery—particularly in treating the laptop as a creative instrument/tool.
Lupp is currently an instructor of composition and music technology at Western Michigan University where he teaches courses in composition, electronic music techniques, computer music design, aural skills, and music theory.
NEWS
May 29th // minus // New Thread Saxophone Quartet // New York (TBD)
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
May 1st // RUCKUS RUCKUS // Kyle Hutchins and Kendra Wheeler // San Diego State University / San Diego, CA
April 30th // RUCKUS RUCKUS // Kyle Hutchins and Kendra Wheeler // UCLA / Los Angeles, CA
April 29th // RUCKUS RUCKUS // Kyle Hutchins and Kendra Wheeler // Cal State Fullerton / Fullerton, CA
March 1st // STRIX // Isidora Ntienjem // EMM Philip Lynch Theatre, Lewis University
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
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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