It's possible to use an orchestra to play any style of music, that it's not limited to
the classical realm or the jazz realm where there's some jazz orchestras around, it's
just a massive, phenomenal musical tool and you can apply it to anything that you want.
My name's Jack Nissan, I've been organising this new youth music project called Tinderbox.
We're just coming up to the first concert after the first term which has been 10 weeks
of rehearsals and 10 weeks of workshops.
When you learn music at school, a lot of the times it can be really stayed, whereas here
I think it's a bit more friendly, it's a bit more about the young people having a sense
of involvement.
I haven't heard this last rehearsal, I'm quite confident it's going to be a good gig.
Hi everyone, I hope you're having a good night.
We are the Tinderbox Orchestra, we've been working on some music you will know and some
that you will not know because the band has written it all together.
We're going to start us off with Fire by Jimi Hendrix.
It's very inspiring actually, very inspiring.
Everybody puts a lot into the project, they get a lot out of it as well, I think that's
another point of the Tinderbox Orchestra, they essentially have more of a kind of band
feel about it.
It's a big difference between a band and an orchestra.
It's very exciting for me as a singer to perform with so many people playing live instruments,
I've never done anything like this before.
It's a really creative environment and I think it's interesting that a lot of the ideas
are coming from maybe the younger musicians.
On top of being this whole contemporary orchestra playing music that's not often played by orchestra
if at all, it's a really good community feel amongst the whole orchestra and it's just
good fun all round.
I like the kind of freedom it gives you, sometimes I forget who the choosers are, it's a very
balanced kind of thing, I mean everybody's had suggestions and like we've done the group
composition, everybody's had an input into things, we don't really know where it's going
I guess, so there's lots of things we can still do.
It's a really different theme to what I usually do, so I think I've learnt a lot about how
to play this sort of stuff.
Man with a movie camera is next up.
It's offering something fresh, a new perspective, a new way of thinking about music for young
people, just taking it a little bit further from just the conventional repertoire into
a little bit more exciting, exciting modern music.
It's all a unique project, I wish they had something like this for me because it's cool.
The teachers are akin to leading questions, it's quite an unusual setup.
I play with Scottish Chamber Orchestra and I mainly do classical stuff, that's why it's
really nice because there's every style, you know, every kind of training, every kind of
background.
I kind of bring a classical side to it, I guess, help the string players with their technique
and getting a better sound.
Students working together, so in the violin section, they're taking responsibility for
themselves to think what would be a good going here, and everyone's listening to each other
and arranging together.
I'm a student of Bethany Lane, it's the Tinderbox Orchestra.
Interesting the Tinderbox, they're like a band and an orchestra at the same time.
The orchestras are so solid and strict that it was such fun to see them having fun.
I think they were very good and I think they show you enormous potential as well because
it's their first gig.
The music had real passion and everything just kind of fitted.
It was like no I expected at all, so it was amazing to come see.
Excellent, absolutely excellent, a very good variety of music, whole family was here.
I think it was a great gig, especially the jam at the end worked quite well.
I loved it, the whole experience playing and just felt really good.
It was just like electric and everyone was really like high energy and it was just amazing,
I loved it.
Jack, really energetic, he really gets you to put a feeling into it.
The whole process is about to start again, so we've got the composition side of things,
we're going to have to start composing and arranging some new music, organising the course
and the workshops and planning the staff as well, so it's going to be a busy kind of
next two months, but yeah tonight, top notch, couldn't have been any better.
It's trying to really bridge this gap between youth music and contemporary music and arts
in happening in Edinburgh.
Move over over, the tin that box is taking over.
