{"id":15609,"date":"2024-12-09T19:41:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T19:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=15609"},"modified":"2024-12-16T12:00:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T12:00:02","slug":"twoset-violin-makes-surprise-rebrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2024\/12\/09\/twoset-violin-makes-surprise-rebrand\/","title":{"rendered":"TwoSet Violin Makes A Surprise Rebrand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15610\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/12\/B\u00b2TSM-2set-violin.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After a dramatic &#8220;<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2024\/10\/15\/twoset-violin-bids-farewell-11-years\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">retirement<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,&#8221; are the classical music comedy duo Bach in business? Spoiler: Not really.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>What&#8217;s happening:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Classical music&#8217;s favourite comedy duo has temporarily emerged from their October &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2024\/10\/15\/twoset-violin-bids-farewell-11-years\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">retirement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8221; with a surprising new identity: B\u00b2TSM. Their comeback? A rap video featuring Eddy Chen as Johann Sebastian Bach himself. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif\">According to an interview with the\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/05\/arts\/music\/twoset-violin-farewell.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif\">, these videos are &#8220;a final gift to fans&#8221;.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The backstory:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TwoSet Violin shocked fans on October 14th by announcing their &#8220;final piece of content&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of their social media content and YouTube videos vanished<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The duo had built a massive following over 11 years of classical music comedy<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The farewell:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Released December 5th under new name B\u00b2TSM<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Features Eddy Chen dressed as Bach<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Opens with the D minor Chaconne before transforming into a rap<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brett Yang is credited as a co-writer despite not appearing in the video<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What&#8217;s next:<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A mysterious new website hints at more classical composer-themed content, with Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Shostakovich marked as &#8220;coming soon.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Fun fact:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> While the duo&#8217;s new name B\u00b2TSM might look like complex math, it&#8217;s likely a clever play on &#8220;Bach to the Future&#8221; \u2014 fitting for a video featuring both Bach and a time machine!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watch the full video here: [<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jExn6TXxenM&amp;t=136s\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">YouTube<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">]<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PS: A second video <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8216;Papa Wolfgang Style&#8217; is <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">scheduled to drop <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@twosetviolin\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sometime today<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classical music&#8217;s favourite comedy duo has temporarily emerged from their October &#8220;retirement&#8221; with a surprising new identity: B\u00b2TSM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[360,2,3],"tags":[493,473],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/12\/B\u00b2TSM-2set-violin.gif","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15609"}],"version-history":[{"count":58,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15673,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15609\/revisions\/15673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15609"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}