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This is a link post Fiddling with Tchaikovsky I made this!
(see what I did there)

Another cutting room floor bonus feature from the documentary my friend and I have spent the last 2 years making. Basically, the composer John Oswald invited his friend Jon Rose to play a completely improvised solo over Tchaikovsy's violin concerto. Jon Rose being the mischievous person he is, performed the solo in his own unique way. This all happened with the skeptical backing of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, creating a whole new experience for everyone.

For a reference of what it's "supposed" to sound like, here is the piece as it is traditionally performed... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJvnAJ4cU4I

/edit: it's a bit of a long clip, just so you know... but that's how it is with Tchaikovsky
(I helped save b3ta! intesvensk can't recall when I last checked the newsletter, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 22:45, Reply)
This is a normal post Holy FUCK.
*picks jaw up from floor*

*clicks HARD*
 (I helped save b3ta! giftedweasel forgot what he was going to type on, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 22:55, Reply)
This is a normal post this is pretty good
it makes classical music suddenly all punk rock and exciting
 (I helped save b3ta! rob, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 23:07, Reply)
This is a normal post Can I quote you on that?
:P
 (I helped save b3ta! intesvensk can't recall when I last checked the newsletter, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 23:24, Reply)
This is a normal post "Hi, I'm mr.dogshit and I just wanted to say that this thing what I just saw made my man cunt fucking explode."
I'll allow you to quote me.
 (I helped save b3ta! mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 23:35, Reply)
This is a normal post To the presses!
Or the fridge... whichever comes first.
 (I helped save b3ta! intesvensk can't recall when I last checked the newsletter, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 0:06, Reply)
This is a normal post Another STUNNING
clip. I am very excited about seeing the whole thing. Do keep us posted.
:-)
 (I helped save b3ta! Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 23:14, Reply)
This is a normal post Know of any worthwhile film festivals in the Greater British area?
We are in submission phase.
 (I helped save b3ta! intesvensk can't recall when I last checked the newsletter, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 23:16, Reply)
This is a normal post I can second the EIFF
I know the submission staff and there is always room for this sort of thing.
 (Wyldoats Is 8 miles outside of Barstow, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 3:34, Reply)
This is a normal post
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk/
 (I helped save b3ta! mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 23:35, Reply)
This is a normal post he said
"Greater British Area". that clearly excludes cambridge, you cock weasle
 (I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Thu 11 Nov 2010, 17:09, Reply)
This is a normal post Only small but interesting
sheptondigitalarts.com, free entry, too.
 (I helped save b3ta! 0nyx, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 15:01, Reply)
This is a normal post
Try Britdoc.org. The Brit Doc festival in Oxford. It does say Brit, but they let Albert Maysles in last year, so..

Good luck.
 (I helped save b3ta! fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Thu 11 Nov 2010, 10:38, Reply)
This is a normal post
sheffdocfest.com/

...but it's almost a whole year till the next one
 (Mystic Greg, Thu 11 Nov 2010, 19:43, Reply)
This is a normal post I get the feeling that this is almost totally lost on me
:(
I mean it was nice to listen to an' all.
 (I helped save b3ta! Dr Scunner She’s a he, technically, but she’s scalding hot, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 0:10, Reply)
This is a normal post Fret not
This sort of thing is definitely not for everyone. My g/f's dad saw the whole film and essentially said he'd prefer to watch his favorite genre-- Westerns.
 (I helped save b3ta! intesvensk can't recall when I last checked the newsletter, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 1:14, Reply)
This is a normal post Ugh
Sorry, but the bits where his violin is silent are lovely. The violin solo parts are mostly out of time, sometimes out of key, and mostly prove why the great composers didn't want cunts like this "improvising".

Would they get Slash in to do a guitar piece? No.

God, I'm getting old. (37)
 (godspants, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 1:05, Reply)
This is a normal post Staying in time and playing the right key has been done so many times.

(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 12:13, Reply)
This is a normal post I disagree
not out of key, except intentionally... if you listen you will hear Rose has a deep understanding of the piece and where the modulations and tempo changes go. You're right that Tchaikovsky would've hated it, but Stravinsky would've loved this.
 (geekcat, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 2:10, Reply)
This is a normal post Well
Perhaps not Slash, but Joe Satriani?

I am not a music theory buff (in fact this forms rather the cornerstone of the impetus that keeps my band and I making music in a world where all the musicians of our age we know started when they were kids- none of us have been playing for more than 3 years and we draw a great deal of inspiration from the fact that Jimi Hendrix, for instance, could not read music) but listening closely none of it really stabs my sense of rhythm in the head and calls its mother a cunt. I really would compare this to Joe Satriani going nuts over a particular rhythm- he has a deep understanding of the technical aspect of music and this allows him to fuck around and experiment where others would feel uncomfortable doing so.
 (CK is rocking out near you (cosmologically speaking), Mon 8 Nov 2010, 17:21, Reply)
This is a normal post Reminds me of the Dirty Three
Sounds good, will pass it on to my friends.
 (TimChuma, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 11:23, Reply)
This is a normal post Makes me want to listen
to the Dirty Three
 (CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 22:43, Reply)
This is a normal post That made me have multiple goosebump orgasms - weird.

(n0ne, Thu 11 Nov 2010, 16:55, Reply)