Elliott Lupp is a composer, improvisor, visual artist, educator, and audio engineer whose work often invokes images of the distorted, chaotic, and visceral. This aesthetic approach as it relates to both acoustic and electroacoustic art-making has led to a body of work that, at the root of its construction, focuses on the manipulation and mixture of noise, extreme gesture, varying levels of energy, shifting timbre, and performer/computer improvisation/interaction as core elements.
Elliott has received a number of awards and honors for his work, including a 2023 1st-place MA/IN Award, the CIME Residency Award, 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/confrences including NUNC!, SPLICE Fest, MA/IN Festival, SPLICE Institute, 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, Spektral Quartet, various members of MOCREP, The Chicago Composer's Orchestra, Fonema Consort, and Ensemble Dal Niente.
Elliott has taught courses in music composition, music technology, and aural skills at Northwestern University, and is currently a part-time instructor at Western Michigan University where he teaches courses in Electronic Music Techniques, Computer Music Design, Aural Skills, Music Theory, and Composition.
PhD: Northwestern University (currently a PHD candidate) - Studied with: Alex Mincek, Jay Alan Yim, Stephan Moore
MM: Western Michigan University - Studied with: Christopher Biggs, Lisa R. Coons
BM: Columbia College Chicago - Studied with: Eliza Brown, Kenn Kumpf
