Electro-Muse
Electro-Muse
 
Muse SQ is getting a brand make-over. Having evolved into an electirc string group with a live DJ sampler, they've renamed the band to Electro-Muse!
 
2005 has been a globe-trotting year - with Electro-Muse performing in Edinbugh , UK , before cruising the Baltic during June! August sees them at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - for opening night and 10 performances of their "Four Non Blondes" show! Electo-Muse SQ - made up of Larah Eksteen, Annemi van der Merwe, Carol Schutz and Olivia van Gass.
 
The four started out as a traditional classical quartet four years ago after Schutz put up an advert at the University of Cape Town 's music school. Electo-Muse have also recently released a Levi's sponsored HIV/Aids album performing with Arno Carstens, Godessa, Flat Stanley and Fokofpolisiekar!
 
Catch this hot show while you can - the rest of the world is starting to... At the end of last year, they came up with Muse Amplified, for which they perform their own amplified music. As Muse Amplified, they have played at hip venues such as the Ivory Room club in the city and at a massive house party at Rhodes Memorial. Their performance style is unusual in that they perform standing and without sheet music.
 
"We've even played to jazz fans at Hanover Street and everyone was dancing along with one of the violinists," said Schutz, who has a part-time job at a market research institute. "I don't think a quartet has done that before." Van Gass, a postgraduate violin student at the University of Cape Town , said: "The amplified music is dance-style music, but we still try to incorporate the beauty of the classical instruments."
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