Miren Edelstein (violinist) and Summer Swee-Singh (pianist) first began playing music together two years ago, while undergraduate students at UC Berkeley. Together they create and perform classical renditions of modern music (ranging from electronic to alternative rock) to not only generate an appreciation for classical music in an electronic day and age, but to disseminate the musical merit of electronic music to a broad audience. Their work, which represents a unique fusion of many different genres of music, old and new, has garnered considerable media attention in the last two years. In addition to racking up over 1 million views on Youtube, Miren and Summer have been featured on numerous social media websites, including BroBible, Buzzfeed, West Coast Sound -- LA Weekly, and The Daily What. The Grammy-award-winning DJ, Skrillex, has even featured their videos twice on his Facebook page. Last year, LA Weekly published an article on Summer and her collaboration with Miren. Most recently, Miren was involved in the filming of a music video for Frank Ocean as a backup musician. Currently, Summer is pursuing a career in music in the Bay Area and Miren is studying music cognition as a psychology PhD student at UCSD.
TEDxUCSD 2013
Theme: Innovation & Tradition
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