Elise De Waard

Elise de Waard (b. 1999) is a daughter of Miriam and Frans de Waard. She was involved in her father’s music making from a very early age, credited for ‘involuntary’ contributions and screams on 3658773 CD-R by Shifts as early as March 2000. At the age of three, Elise played a variety of instruments and non-musical objects (metal sheets, paper, sticks, plastic and other junk) amplified with contact microphones for Freiband’s album 706322. Elise de Waard also recorded a short collection of field recordings for My Own Little Label, which received a favorable review by Vital Weekly.