"FraKctured" by King Crimson. Arranged for strings 

It's crucial for a Fripp piece to have someone glaring around with an aloof look of malevolent disdain, way more important than playing actual notes!

why not ? there is a clear Stravinsky influence on Fripp............ listen to Rite of Spring.It totally makes sense.......

Fripp usually cites Bela Bartok as one of his main inspirations. And it shows

Sumphonic prog IS contemporary classical music!!

Absolutely. Above all I can hear B. Hermann resounding here

20th century abstract.

no, she's imitating Bruford in "Trio"

@@2dan4me97 give me probs for my tight musical lingo

@@2dan4me97 Better comparison. Fripp seems to sit still, but his hands work the snares like crazy.

It is not a woman, it is a binaural microphone…

@@karayuschij Hahahaha!!!

bladder.

I thought the same thing.

My exact thought too!

It's almost Hermann mixed with Steve Reich or John Adams. Parts of this really put me in mind of Shaker Loops or Different Trains.

Yeah I just heard that Vertigo opening theme almost

It would be fun to see Pat Mastelotto on a split screen tearing into this😃

Btw, what role Carmen is playing in it? Didn't really get

@@hannaveits3923 read the book I sent you 😉

@@odrioper ahaaa, will do!!!

@@odrioper I know now! She actively does nothing!

There's sheet music on music stands plainly visible. You can see the musicians turning pages.

Thank you 😊

I greatly appreciate your gratitude. You are welcome!

I wonder how many of them are familiar with the KC version?

I agree, on all accounts.

I'd like to hear Reich perform this with his ensemble. Perfectly suited.

You are very welcome!

This is not an orchestra...

Yes and no. Remember the bridges of bowed instruments are arched 😉 Thank you for your interest!

Glad you are happy. It's been on RU-vid for a year. I was contemplating the arrangement for several years, until I finally decided to finish it and get it performed. Cheers!

@@odrioper How was it recieved if you don't mind me asking? Just wondering what people who go to orchestras (i have no experience of this world) think about experimental rock music put into their idiom. I just found this and i've listened to it about four times already, great work btw!

@@internetenjoyer1044 Hi Daniel. Thanks for your interest! This was played to a very mixed audience, as part of the annual "informal drop in concerts" held by the Grieg Academy during the Bergen International Festival. The program included Bach and Purcell as well as a piece by a Catalonian composer (manuel Oltra). We began with walk-in music based on the elements of "Requiem Affirming" (from the Soundscape album "Love cannot bear"). In other words, a pretty unusual program. I did not make a point of making "FraKctured" stand out. It fitted right in with the rest of the program as pure music. We got good comments afterwards and I felt it went down well with the audience. It was very challenging for the students in the orchestra. Cheers! Ricardo

It was more of a reference (but only a reference) to Guitar Craft. To be able to do it for real we would have had to work (really work) for at least three years, and that is impossible in the academic world.

Of course. Thank you

Bill was out by the time this was recorded. If thats what you meant by restraint :P

@@SKarthikeyan75 It was a reference to Bruford's performance on "Trio", as he's credited with "admirable restraint" (The piece was improvised and he chose not to play, which was the perfect decision to make)

@@MarceloKatayama I was watching her the whole time, wondering if she was ever going to actually play something. And, yes, thinking about Bruford's famous contribution of silence to "Trio". Fripp has often talked about the important of silence, and how the notes you don't play are at least as important as the ones you do. But you don't really need to bring someone on stage specifically to provide silence. You'd get the exact same silence if she wasn't there at all. It seems weird, and frankly distracting, having her sitting there doing nothing. Bruford was there on stage, for the other songs. So, at least he had a reason to be there.

Hey, you are right The beggining could be in Taxi Driver with no problem.

Bernard Herrmann was a friend and early champion of Charles Ives' music. Somehow the circle seems unbroken from the man from Danbury to the Crimson King.

Hi Frank - in the past couple of decades there seems to have been a gradual shift towards female players in classical music in general.

Read the comments ;-)

Bill Bruford participated in the recording of “Trio” by the quartet that played on Starless and Bible Black but never played. He got a composition credit on the song for knowing that the track didn't need drums. I assume the cellist is a reference to this ... but Bruford did it as an improviser, not as a “gag”. (Edited to add: ah, I see the reply Ricardo meant, but it's one of those things where the “wrong” explanation is so much more obvious than the supposed one that I'm going to let my comment stand.)

One of the composers of this work, Robert Fripp, taught a course called "Guitar Craft". He held Silence (differentiated from mere Quiet) to be highly important to music. In performances by his students, he would appoint one of them to be responsible for Silence.

Yes :)

@@odrioper would you share it? 🙃

@@SamuraiGuitar I'm in the process of registering the arrangement. I will let you know when I have succeeded :)

@@odrioper If you have finished registering the arrangement, I would live to know about it as well - I teach in a suburb of Detroit and I'd love to see how possible/ impossible it would be for my upper HS orchestra to tackle it.

@@albinrose1193 Sure. Give me an email address.

Of course!

Belew plays only on the easy, slow parts. Fast parts is fripp alone.