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
(On this extract) Mozart dies, gets buried as you can hear, and logically enough ends up in Heaven where everything is perfect, instant gratification of all desires including his passion for billiards and bird catchers. There is a job description however (as pointed out by one of his angel assistants) - "Oh one thing. It's really the only professional requirement concerning your engagement here. As you are probably aware, we all play the violin in heaven - some of us double up on harp, but the violin is our main performance instrument. Indeed some angels do very little else with their time except scrape away with a sublime smile on their faces. And you can imagine how much violin music is required to keep the millions of heavenly creatures satisfied? Get my drift? That's where you come in - we need literally light years of perfect violin music. Like another suck on my tits? There you are."
And so the mediocre scum that controlled the arts in Mozart's day are still running things today as they dig up and sell old Wolfgang's 250th birthday for all its tacky worth
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