The Jon Rose Web - Voices from the Fence

Violin Pegs, Rosenberg Museum, Berlin, 1999
Record Playing Violin, Rosenberg Museum, Brno, 2009
Jon Rose and Hollis Taylor play The Fence, Strzelecki Track, 2004
Clock Violins, Rosenberg Museum, Berlin, 1988
The 10 String Double Violin, Sydney, 1982
Rosenberg Museum, Sydney, 2018
The Data Driven Violin, Rosenberg Museum, Berlin, 2015
Interactive Violin Bow Mark 4
Part of the Violin Collection, Rosenberg Museum, 2018
Street Sign from the Town of Violin, Slovakia
12 String Perspex Cello, The Rosenberg Museum, 2018

Voices from the Fence

ABC 2004

Radio inside a Violin: A gift to Jon Rose by the marketing department of WDR Cologne

A series commissioned by The Listening Room, ABC.
Based on the recorded interviews by Jon Rose that appear in POST IMPRESSIONS - a book by Dr. Hollis Taylor on the many characters, philosophers, and slightly crazy people that live, work, and survive around Australia's great fences.
Fence music played by Jon Rose and Hollis Taylor.
This extract features fence runner Ron Moses who worked on the Rabbit Proof Fence for over 30 years.

Where is the fence, what makes a fence, madness at the fence, murder by the fence, why make a fence, who owns the fence, are you thinking inside or outside of the fence?

What's New

December 2024

'Jon Rose Archive' - new on Bandcamp with recently recovered recordings from earlier decades, featuring Violin Factory 1999, Great Fences of Australia 2002, Slawterhaus 1992, Temperaments 2009, Hyperstring @ Roulette 2000.

Vienna, Outback Australia, Salzburg, England, New York.

October 2024

'A Violin Bow for John Cage' - new interactive works based on a recording lost for over 20 years, featuring an interview with Cage from 1988 on the subject of the violin. On line here.

New York, Alice Springs

November 2024-5

'The Singing Telegraph' - an intervention into the history of the Overland Telegraph which stretched uninvited over the land of the Kaytetye people. Working with the Tara Community, this on going project incorporates ancient, colonial, and modern technologies and languages with new music and multi-media outcomes here

Tara, Northern Territory

March 2024

'Night Songs' celebrates an interspecies multi-media engagement between the ancient music of a uniquely Australian songbird - Cracticus nigrogularis (the Pied Butcherbird) and Australia's premiere new music group Ensemble Offspring. Documentation here.

The Adelaide Festival