{"id":12830,"date":"2020-05-28T07:48:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T07:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev01.contentcreators.at\/video-austrian-audio-shines-in-elise-trouws-elisecollab-series\/"},"modified":"2020-05-28T07:48:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T07:48:50","slug":"video-austrian-audio-shines-in-elise-trouws-elisecollab-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev01.contentcreators.at\/de\/video-austrian-audio-shines-in-elise-trouws-elisecollab-series\/","title":{"rendered":"(Video) Austrian Audio Shines in Elise Trouw\u2019s #EliseCollab Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Elise Trouw<\/a>\u2019s popular #EliseCollab<\/a> series stars an Austrian Audio OC818<\/a> and a pair of Hi-X55<\/a> headphones.<\/p>\n

The series of social media posts sees Trouw perform short segments of music by singing, playing drums or the keyboard (recorded by an OC818 and whilst wearing the Hi-X55<\/a>s), after which she uploads the WAV files to dropbox for her fans to download \u2013 allowing them to virtually collaborate with her.<\/p>\n

\"Elise<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had a love for music ever since I was really young, and over time I\u2019ve developed that in different ways in my performance, my live looping and my songwriting. Finding a way to incorporate all of my passions and interests is what I\u2019ve been focussed on in my career,\u201d says Trouw.<\/p>\n

Prior to the #EliseCollab series, Trouw was excited to try out the OC818 after hearing so much about it:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m using the OC818 for some upcoming recordings; I\u2019m really excited to see how it sounds with my voice and to try it out on the drum set.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trouw was born in Southern California and was raised on The Carpenters, Green Day, and 80s New Wave. Inspiration struck when a six-year-old Trouw first heard the haunting piano melody in \u2018My Immortal\u2019 by Evanescence:<\/p>\n

\u201cI distinctly remember a five-hour plane ride that consisted of that one song blasting repeatedly into my ears,\u201d she says. \u201cSo I begged my parents for piano lessons, and after they finally relented, they were then begging me to not practice at five in the morning every day! I did it anyway, and my love for piano just grew stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trouw then progressed from piano to the drums after mastering the drums to \u2018Dani California\u2019 on Expert Mode on the Xbox game, Rockband, and later enrolled in School of Rock, where she was one of the youngest pupils.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing one of the youngest only pushed me harder to keep up with the older kids,\u201d she recalls. \u201cFrom Mitch Mitchell’s jazz-rock waltz on Jimi Hendrix\u2019s \u2018Manic Depression,\u2019 to the syncopated groove of Richard Bailey on Jeff Beck\u2019s \u2018Blow by Blow,\u2019 to the funky feel of Tower of Power\u2019s David Garibaldi, I wanted to learn it all!\u201d<\/p>\n

The decision to perform all of the instrumental and vocal tracks on her recordings stems from a desire to learn more about recording and to push herself beyond her own limits.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople ask me: \u2018What genre is your music?\u2019 With songs in 5\/4 and 7\/4, chords that you’d normally find in The Real Book next to \u2018Take Five,\u2019 and influences like Radiohead, The Police and Steely Dan, I\u2019m really not sure what box I fit into. I\u2019ll leave that up to you!\u201d<\/p>\n