Raised on a farm in Idaho, Elise Baldwin now resides in San Francisco.
Active in the Bay Area experimental music scene, Elise focuses on collaborative
music ventures and solo intermedia performance, appearing recently at the San
Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Edgetone Music Festival, the Brutal Sound FX
Festival, E.S.P. Media Lounge, CalArts CEAIT Festival and the National Queer Arts
Festival. Her work has been featured on compilations Women Take Back The Noise,
Sound Migrations, and Aural Fixation I and II. Harboring a historic multiplicity
with regard to medium, she holds degrees in Film & Video production from UCSC and
Electronic Music from Mills College. She has spent much of the past fifteen years
working as a sound designer, multimedia director, recording engineer, and digital
video editor on commercial and educational projects. She has had the good fortune to
collaborate with many talented filmmakers, performers, dancers, and theater
companies such as Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa, Sini Anderson of Sister Spit, Fresh Meat
Productions, and The Civilians. She has received numerous awards, including a
Harvestworks Artist in Residency in 2006, the Frogs Peak Award for Experimental
Music in 2004, and a Howard Scripps Award. She holds degrees in Film & Video
production from UCSC and Electronic Music from Mills College.
