The Jon Rose Web - PAGANINI'S LAST TESTIMONY

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

PAGANINI'S LAST TESTIMONY

ABC 1988

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

Derived from Paganini's own letters - text and Music by Jon Rose
Commissioned for The Listening Room by Ros Cheney
Recording engineer was John Jacobs
Recorded in pre-digital studio conditions!
Faith healers and religious nut jobs recorded from local radio stations by Jon Rose while on tour in the deep south of the USA 1986

The listener discovers a violinist who was as much a faith healer and bewitcher of the masses as conjurer with sound. A full range of violins including the ten string double violin, the baby megaphone violin, the 19 string cello, and amplified bow are used and cut with the ravings of evangelical preachers from America's Bible belt. (Extract from a much longer work)

What's New

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