Installations of The Rosenberg Museum have been featured all over Europe in its 30 year life. Since 2016, it's finally home in Australia and VIOLIN GENERATOR will be its only manifestation in Melbourne. The museum is the creation of violinist, composer, artist, inventor, writer, Jon Rose and houses a cornucopia of violin iconography - a cabinet of curiosities highlighting violin stories that are musically other, historically twisted, or culturally critical. The museum has two modes. The exhibition mode features violin installations, framed images, objects, oddities, home-mades, including new automatons by Jon Rose, Robbie Avenaim, Ernie Althof, Rainer Linz, Maria Moles, Michael McNab, Brigid Burke.; The live mode features performances and concerts including ‘Music in a time of dysfunction 3’ for the newly built ’32 String Web’ and violin ensemble of Erkki Veltheim, Lizzy Welsh, Rachael Kim, Judith Hamann, Biddy Connor, and Chloë Smith. Former European director of the museum, Dr. Jozef Cseres, will MC each performance night featuring no less than seven sonic events throughout The Substation.
Opening Exhibition night Thursday 4th April.
The museum is in full performance mode 5,6,12,13th April
The museum is open in exhibition mode 5-13 April
“Australian violinist Jon Rose has done more than any musician to revolutionise the approach to his instrument, with technical developments and radical performance strategies.” – Andy Gill, The Independent, 5 January 2013
“Jon Rose is the major philosopher and cosmologist in a violin-centric world. Through his work he has fashioned totally new ways for violinists to think of their bows and their instruments. He has given listeners freshly made dimensions to contemplate. When I think of Jon, I'm reminded of Leonardo. He has fearlessly and fancifully explored all the currently known parameters of the violin and discovered many previously hidden ones as well. Jon has led the way in using the violin as a tool to explore life. If all he had ever done was to give us the sounds and the image of the violinist bowing barbed wire fences throughout the world, it should be said that his work has placed the violin front and centre as a force for renewal and regeneration in a tired world.”
David Harrington, Kronos Quartet, San Francisco, 8 March 2012
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