THE LOBBY

Elisa Faires

Elisa Faires is a musician, vocalist and composer. She has been singing since she was eight years old. Her early beginnings were rooted in choral singing, and in college she studied opera and classical music as well as electronic music. After studying at the University she spent three years dedicated to her study and singing in Opera and began to pursue a career. In fact, one of her teachers was the great Dr. Robert Moog. As a reaction to the her rigorous training in technique and repertoire, she began improvisation with others and started recording and performing her own experimental music. After having many auditions and classical concerts she decided the conventional Opera scene was not where she wanted to be. She went on to Bali Indonesia to study Classical Balinese gamelan and to experience the culture that surrounds the music in 2001 and again in 2020 under the teaching of Salukat Gamelan Leader and Composer, Dewa Alit. Since then she has performed and recorded with several different projects such as Paw of Zing, Imaginary Numbers, XAMBUCA, Hans Joachim Roedelius, Void Ensemble, Quartet Pounder, Night Wasp, Ivan Seng and with Meg Mulhearn in their collaborative project Spectral Habitat. She has led many improvisational workshops and groups in creative music and sound over the years. For the past 10 years she has been experimenting with vocals and harmonies using multi tracking, loops, effects, modular synthesis and other electronics. She previously has presented sound installations and interacted live in her pieces entitled Photosynthesis and another Dialoga Aquila for The Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center’s annual ReHappening festival. She was awarded a grant in 2007 from Met Life for their Meet the Composer grant. 

https://elisafaires.com/

https://elisafaires.bandcamp.com/album/animisme-2