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
The key to the structure of The Rosenberg Violin Concerto is to be found on line 9 in the Berlin subway system - The Relative Unified Music Theory. An entire orchestra is crammed into one of the trains as the full scope of the audio score is revealed. Rosenbergian concepts are demonstrated in an Italian Football match, a famous racehorse, multi lingual search programmes, East German and Russian 'number’ station broadcasts to their spies in the West, the notorious BACH motive, a Laplander in mid orgasm, indeed a song that lapses into Esperanto, a monkey's fart, an industrial pneumatic hammer, the weekend factor, dozens of desperate illegal immigrants that the authorities would rather remove, and not forgetting the explosive version of Beethoven's violin concerto recorded as the Berlin Wall sadly fell. As the text points out "In his youth Rosenberg was attracted by the Epimenidies Paradox... he went on to consider a violin language in which the violin could pronounce 'this is not a violin'."
For 50 years Jon Rose has been creating a unique body of work, almost everything imaginable on, with, and about the VIOLIN... Read more!
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