Jon Rose is one of the most productive, original and focused people I know; he's also an extraordinary musician and an inspired composer. To mark his 60th anniversary we are releasing this 3 CD box of previously unreleased works ranging from radio documentary and radio fiction to virtuoso performances - taken from all manner of contexts, using both the acoustic violin and the hyperstring interactive bow system. There's a remarkable improvised violin concerto (the rest of the mini-orchestras's parts are written out), as well as collaborations with Australian locals (multiple brassbands, musical whips, lounge pianists, aboriginal choirs, orchestrated corrugated iron, musical gum leaves, auctioneers, chainsaws, singing dingos, bowed saw orchestras, and so on). There's a duo with George - an Albert's Lyrebird, and concerts with contemporary ensembles and heavy earthmoving equipment. It comes accompanied by a great deal of extraordinary film - and some purely audio - material collected together on a supplementary data disc. Plus there's a generous booklet of texts, documents and photographs and, of course, a souvenir sample of bow-hair.
01 Band Stabs 02 Thank You Very Much 03 Whips 04 Retail Therapy 05 Simultaneous Hum & Whistle 06 The Ntaria Aboriginal Ladies Choir 07 Hermannsburg 08 Corrugated Iron 09 Gum-leaf 10 Auctioneer 11 Dinky 12 The Singing Dingo
13 Chainsaw Tribute 14 The Didjeribone 15 Bowed Saw Orchestra 16 Tacit 17 Internal Combustion1 18 Internal Combustion2 19 Internal Combustion3 20 Internal Combustion4 21 Internal Combustion5 22 Tacit 23 Syd And George - Extract 24 Tacit 25 Slow Rain
Disc 2
01 Whiskers1 02 Whiskers2 03 Whiskers3 04 Whiskers4 05 Whiskers5 06 Whiskers6 07 Tacit 08 Talking Back To Media1 09 Talking Back To Media2 10 Talking Back To Media3 11 Tacit 12 Digger Music
Disc 3
01 Sphere 02 Tacit 03 Garage Fence 04 Tacit 05 Hyper1 06 Hyper2 07 Hyper3 08 Hyper4 09 Hyper5 10 Hyper6 11 Hyper7 12 Hyper8 13 Hyper9 14 Tacit 15 Palimps1 16 Palimps2 17 Palimps3 18 Palimps4 19 Duo: 19 String Cello 20 Barbed Wire Practice 21 The Pannikin Bowed Saw Orchestra 22 Music For Violins And Flies 23 Serenade For Feedback Violin And Chairs 24 The Pursuit Project 25 Fence Music From A Fence On The Strzelecki Track 26 Tchaikovsky? 27 The Violin Burning 28 Violin 3d Model 29 Violin Record Player 30 Violin Solo At The Sydney Opera House 31 The Viocycle At The Sydney Olympic Velodrome 32 The Wogarno Fence