Jon Rose

Jon Rose ( born 1951 in Rochester, United Kingdom ) is an improviser. He plays violin, ( self-built ) String instruments of all kinds and fences - as with his project with the American violinist Hollis Taylor.

Biography

The choice Australians Rose began at the age of seven years playing the violin. He finished his musical education at the age of 15 to teach himself. Since the 1970s, plays, composes and he studied how country music and bebop in different musical genres. He played in the Italian club bands and a big band, made sound installations and plays sitar. He was with his group "The Relative band" the central figure of the Australian improvised music and devoted his life to the violin.

1986 Rose went to Berlin to be there to this day ongoing project "The Relative Violin" to begin: the development of a total art form to this instrument. It builds and develops new forms of string instrument, is an author, festival curator and radio playwrights. In 2004 he was awarded the prestigious Karl- Scuka Award for radio art of Südwestfunk.

Collaborations

Jon Rose worked with almost all sizes of the international improvisation scene as Derek Bailey, Butch Morris, Barry Guy, Fred Frith, Shelley Hirsch, Joëlle Léandre, Conny Bauer, Hannes Bauer, Chris Cutler, Otomo Yoshihide, Toshinori Kondo, Alvin Curran, Evan Parker, Paul Lovens, Phil Minton, Mark Dresser, John Cage, Peter Kowald, Borah Bergman, Tristan Honsinger, Tony Oxley, Cor Fuhler, Steve Beresford, Eugene Chadbourne, Malcolm Goldstein, David Moss, Frank Schulte, Miya Masaoka, Barre Phillips, Roger Turner, George Lewis, Günter Christmann, Davey Williams, Misha Mengelberg, Elliott Sharp, Lauren Newton, Ulrich Gumpert, Christian Marclay, John Zorn, Dietmar Diesner, Peter Hollinger, Tony Buck, Joe Williamson, Aleksander Kolkowski, Thomas Lehn or Veryan Weston.

Publications

Rose was involved in about 60 vinyl records and CDs. The most important are:

  • Forward of Short Leg ( Dossier, 1984)
  • Vivisection ( on the Ruhr, 1988)
  • Paganini 's Last Testimony ( nexus Records, 1989)
  • Violin Music for Restaurants: (Feat. the Legendary Jo "Doc" Rosenberg ) ( Cuneiform, 1992)
  • Pulled Muscles ( Immigrant, 1993)
  • The Virtual Violin ( Megaphone, 1993)
  • Violin Music for Supermarkets ( Megaphone, 1994)
  • Perks (Recommended, 1995)
  • Violin Music in the Age of Shopping ( Intakt Records, 1995)
  • With Techno disorders ( Plag 's Not, 1998)
  • Sliding (Noise Asia, 1998)
  • China Copy ( Cream Gardens, 1999)
  • The Violin Factory [live ] ( Heyermears Disc Orbie, 2001)
  • Temperament ( Emanem, 2002)
  • Great Fences of Australia ( Dynamo House, 2002)
  • Artery ( NowNow, 2004)
  • Double Indemnity (Hermes, 2004)
  • Meat ( Saucerlike Records, 2004)
  • Futch ( Jazz Workshop, 2006)
Rochester (Kent) Derek Bailey (guitarist) David Moss (musician) Roger Turner (musician) George Lewis (trombonist) Davey Williams (musician) Tony Buck (musician) Cuneiform Records Integrated Authority File
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