Born: 1951

To call Jon Rose experimental is perhaps an understatement. He's Australian, and although I've got two of his albums I'm still not sure I understand what he's getting at. But his use of the violin is unique, and the bizarre mix of styles and motifs he includes in his music makes for a fairly interesting background. Here's a snippet from the liner notes of Brain Weather, an album that contains the 27-track piece "Brain Weather" (described as "an opera pervers") and the 14-track piece "The Weather Man": "As with all my productions, it is suggested that after first listening, the play list should be thoroughly mixed up for further and extended cross-connections. For example, parts of The Weatherman can be inserted at random into Brain Weather which itself can be played in any order."

Here's a sample from Brain Weather:

The Weather Man (.AIFF format, 347K, 32 second clip)

Song copyright © Jon Rose.

http://www.jonroseweb.com
http://www.euronet.nl/users/jrviolin/index.html
http://www.nwu.edu/jazz/artists/rose.jon/
http://www.aec.at/www-ars/perform.html
http://sysx.apana.org.au/soundsite/texts/Sensorlab.html

Email: jrviolin@euronet.nl

BRAIN WEATHER (1992)
VIOLIN MUSIC FOR RESTAURANTS (1987)