Elysha Zaide, Sound Designer and Artist at ill-esha.
An immersive musicologist of all flavors, Elysha has built a multi-faceted industry career as a multimedia composer and sound designer, innovation technology producer, acclaimed educator, and international touring artist. Her career has spanned over two decades and 20 countries creating, performing, producing, and editing content for clients such as Google, Facebook Music, AudioNetwork, Splice, Ninja Tune, Ableton Live, Focusrite, Sennheiser, Audius and the BBC.
At the age of 25 she received the prestigious Guild of Canadian Film Composers’ scholarship and worked as music editor for channels such as PBS Kids, Cartoon Network, Lifetime, and Discovery. She has also been a featured composer on Sports Network, CBC, and the National Film Board of Canada. Her score for “Big Top Ballet” was nominated for a Canadian Videogame Composers Award, and her sound design can also be seen inside various apps and programs such as Kilohearts Phase Plant, Ninja Tune’s JammPro, and Auxy Beat Studio.
As the electronic artist and producer ill-esha, she has toured across the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East at notable events such as Boiler Room, Coachella, and A.D.E. After a three-year artist sabbatical serving as a Professor at Berklee College of Music’s masters’ program for Music Production, Technology, and Innovation, she is currently pushing the boundaries of interactive audio managing Sound Design for the LEGO Group in Billund, Denmark.