Originally designed as a response to the rapidly changing creative world of 2020 amidst the unprecedented COVID disruptions; The Summer Chores was created as a motivational tool for home use over the summer months for students and teachers alike, the intension being that the performer plays all the parts to each piece while learning and experimenting how to record themselves, learn how to make a click-track, how to multi-track, mix, video-edit and more….
Susato was a Renaissance composer, instrumentalist and publisher of music from Antwerp in Belgium. Not much is known about his early life, but he begins appearing in various Antwerp archives around 1530 working as a calligrapher as well as an instrumentalist. The trumpet, flute and tenor pipe are listed as instruments that he owned. In 1543, he founded the first music publishing house using movable music type in the Low Countries.