Latest Web Stuff
New pages and updates for Jon Rose
The Singing Telegraph project continues its cultural reconciliation with recent additions of video, sound, and images here.A Violin Bow for John Cage reveals a recent and rare audio document here.
Whistling in the Dark presents new bird and human collaborations here.
CONTACT
Jon Rose via The Australian Music Centre
INTRO
This website is nearly 30 years old! The new site is getting over 52,000 visitors annually. The old site (containing some gems!) can still be accessed at JonRoseWeb Archive
For 45 years Jon Rose has been creating a unique body of work, almost everything imaginable on, with, and about the VIOLIN. Working with many of the significant pioneers of new music, he has appeared on over 90 CDs and LPs and performs in some 25 countries. He is a recognised virtuoso in improvisation, a composer specialised in writing works for strings, orchestras, and live sampling, a pioneer in environmental works, an innovator in interactive electronics and he has also built over 20 experimental violin instruments and composed over 30 radiophonic works.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE LAST DECADE
In 2012 The Music Board of The Australia Council honored Jon Rose with its most prestigious award for life time achievement, The Don Banks Prize. AND The blockbuster 4 CD Box set ROSIN to celebrate Jon's 60th Birthday (a little late) is still available complete with signed used bow hair, data disc, and extensive booklet!
For 2017, Jon was composer in residence at The Peggy Glanville-Hicks House.
June 2018 saw Jon Rose and partner Hollis Taylor in residence at the remote Aboriginal community of Warmun, Western Australia, developing a violin project with the local Gija school kids. Check out what 20 cheap Chinese violins can sound like after 3 weeks with The Wild Violins of Warmun
The international Magazine for new music Contemporary Music Review has devoted an entire issue to JON ROSE: THE ROSENBERG MUSEUM Volume 37, 2018. Print ISSN 0749-4467, Online 1477-2256
The Online version is the better bet as there is a colour section and links to videos... however you have to be an academic in an institution to get access...such is the world.
THE ROSENBERG MUSEUM
For the first and only time in Melbourne; The Substation presented - Violin Generator - 4th- 13th April 2019. If you missed it, you'll never know ...
The Rosenberg Museum is the creation of violinist, composer, artist, inventor, Jon Rose and houses over 1000 artefacts of violin iconography - a cabinet of curiosities highlighting the musically perverse, historically twisted, culturally critical, and politically charged.
And here are the links to Dr Rosenberg's Wunderkammer in 2018 and in The Museum Goes Live in 2016.
Post Covid activities include the continuing partnership with Hollis Taylor in Night Songs, a new collaboration with composer Cathy Milliken in Rock, Paper, Scissors, and the world premier of BEAK for The Kronos Quartet at The Adelaide Festival 2023.
