The Jon Rose Web - Play It Again, Doc

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

Play It Again, Doc

ABC 1990

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

The second radiophonic composition of a 'Rosenberg' trilogy, commissioned by Ros Cheney for The ABC Listening Room
Text, violin, arrangements, production - Jon Rose
Voices - Jon Rose and Shelley Hirsch
Recording engineer - John Jacobs

A tale of appropriation and lost identities. The psychotic Captain Karajan is determined to prove Rosenberg's Theory of Music Relativity by crashing his Jumbo jet at full power into the Sydney Opera House. Dr. Karen Rosenberg explains what it is like to be a Dr. Rosenberg ("you wait to see what people will do with it"). Shelley Hirsch sings a song remarkably similar to 'As Time Goes By'. Lesbian couple Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson make an appearance chasing the fakes and forgeries... There are countless mutant flies buzzing around as the science of multiple personalities goes bottoms up. (Extract taken from the beginning and end of the 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