Biography Jon Rose
1951, England. Lives in Australia and Germany. He started playing the violin at age seven. Throughout the 1970s, first in England and then in Australia, he played, composed and studied in a large variety of musical genres – from sitar playing to country & western; from "new music" composition to sound installations. He became the central figure in the development of free improvisation in Australia. In 1986, he moved to Berlin in order to more fully realize his on-going project [of some 20 years], The Relative Violin. This is the development of a Total Art Form based around this one instrument. Necessary to this concept has been innovation in the fields of new instrument design [over 25 deconstructed violin instruments including the legendary double piston, triple neck, wheeling violin and giant bowed instruments reaching up to 15 meters in length], environmental performance, new instrumental techniques, both analog and the more recently interactive electronics … plus using the media of radio, live performance-film and television to create a new, alternative and personal revised history for THE VIOLIN. Jon Rose performs his group projects and solo music in upwards of 50 concerts every year. He is currently performing The Chaotic Violin, one of a number of highly acclaimed works for violin and interactive software.