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A note from Jon Rose: "Characteristically invisible and inaudible, the wind is made manifest solely by its agency and performance on objects: huge waves crash to shore, sand dunes edge forward over millennia (rumbling as they go), cyclones uproot trees and houses, intergalactic winds confound the planets. On a more modest scale, I've been building aeolian instruments since 1979, part of my investigation into the innumerable aspects of the vibrating string. I designed the two recent aeolian instruments heard on this album, the Monolith 2021 and the Tube 2022, with a focus on engaging with the variable windy conditions experienced in central Australia. The bodies of these instruments are flanked on all sides by multiple strings. The 1.25-meter Monolith is made of plywood, with 36 strings of both piano wire and fishing line. The Tube is literally a 2-meter PVC pipe and is fitted with fishing line only. Discrete adjustments can be manually made if the wind shifts or if the operator wishes to engage other adjacent strings, often resulting in microtonal beats. The Monolith is set up with contact microphones cut into each bridge, and the Tube was recorded with air microphones inserted internally. Tuning rational has as much to do with tautness, thickness, and material quality of string as actual pitch when in a state of 'excitation' -- this violinist's intuition. These aeolian experiments are ongoing and may go some way to designing an instrument that simultaneously handles both the von Kárán vortex effect and unpredictable wind patterns. The results so far have generated numerous sonic surprises."
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RER JR60
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"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 three 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' parts are written out), as well as collaborations with Australian locals (multiple brass bands, 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."
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RER JR7
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"The People's Music is part homage, part parody, and part meditation on these themes. A string orchestra whisks through re-composed shards of the classical repertoire; a Red Guard factory guide barks instructions; a three-piece percussion ensemble from time to time intervenes destructively. Meanwhile, Rose himself conducts with a plastic replica of Mao's embalmed left hand, and interjects with bursts of his electronic hypertstring violin. Not to mention that this spectacle was recorded in the unlikely and inaccessible Australian outback location of Wogarno Station, Murchison, about six hours' drive north of Perth -- somehow with the press there in full force."
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RER JR6
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"For his latest ReR CD, Jon Rose has discarded his identity as humorist, joker & evil genius in favor of a single minded attack on the violin. The Hyperstring Project uses software developed in collaboration with Steim in Amsterdam, and his violin is now able to fire off independent contrapuntal lines -- in his words 'rogue counterpoint' -- drawing on countless samples from a sonic database. Backwards, forwards and inside-out strings sounds compete with harpsichords, voices, and indescribable electronic resonances, enabling Rose to accompany himself, generating a complex and intense musical argument."
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RER JR5
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"Since the early 80's, Rose has been busily building a series of very long string instruments. These creations were originally inspired by the wind-triggered fences of the Australian outback, where air currents hitting the stretched out wires managed to create an aeolian harp effect. When bowed, these fences were found to emit a large variety of sounds." Some very nice sounds here, but a lot of spoken text as well. The idea of contrasting droning sound and spoken text within the same context is so radically inconsideritate of the listener's pleasure center, that it probably constitutes some sort of "joke" in one of the various corner's of Mr. Rose's universe. Hard-core Rose fanatics will add a better-than-average CD to their pile with this one, but if you're merely interested in the resonant possibilities of long-stringed instruments, Ellen Fullmen (or much of the Het Apollohuis back catalog) would suit you much better.
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RER JR4
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"Australian violinist Jon Rose, together with an international cast of improvisors including Lauren Newton, Joelle Leandre, Otomo Yoshihide & Chris Cutler unleashes one of his wildest & dizzying releases of his already wild career. Taken from an unexpurgated radio recording of his 1994 Victoriaville Festival performance."
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RER JRCD3
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"...the latest psychedelic stereo project from composer and violinist Jon Rose, an 'interactive badminton game' featuring contributions from Elsie Lorraine (piano & Harmonium sequences, voice, sung samples), Stevie Wishart (hurdy gurdy), Phil Minton (voice), Rainer Linze (computer controlled analog synthesizer) and Butch Morris (cornet)." Based on the ideas of early Australian genius/deviant/composer Percy Grainger (including samples of some his cylinder discs from 1908), this disc finds Rose at his most seriously zonked out, a pure sonic listening experience.
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RER BJRCD
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"Evil genius, humorist and virtuoso violinist Jon Rose invents bizarre sound entertainments (almost radio plays) starring a number of fake alter egos." With Derek Bailey, E. Chadbourne, Barre Phillips, Alvin Curran, etc.
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RER BJRCD2
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"A funny, typically nutty release by this internationally known troublemaker, instrument maker and violinist (not necessarily in that order). This is billed as `an opera perverse,' and includes Shelly Hirsch & Phil Minton."
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