Jon Rose

His primary life's work is The Relative Violin. This is the development of a total artform based around the one instrument – it includes innovation in the fields of new instrument design, environmental performance, new instrumental techniques, radiophonic works, and the development of inter-active electronics.
He performs his group and solo projects in upwards of 50 concerts every year world wide. He is featured regularly in the main festivals of New Music, Jazz, performance and Sound Art such as Ars Elektronica, Festival D’Automne, Maerzmusik, Dokumenta, North Sea Jazz Fest, New Music America, the Vienna Festival, the Berlin Jazz Festival, Moers Festival, The Melbourne Festival, etc.
Jon Rose has appeared on over 100 albums and CD's; he has worked with many of the innovators and mavericks in contemporary music such as Kronos, John Zorn, Derek Bailey, Alvin Curran, Otomo Yoshihide, Ilan Volkov, Christian Marclay, George Lewis, etc
Jon Rose was recently commissioned by The Adelaide Festival for a violin concerto, the Kronos String Quartet to write and build “Music from 4 Fences” for the Sydney Opera House; realised his bicycle powered “Pursuit” project at Canberra 100; created two major radiophonic works for the BBC on Aboriginal Australian musical history; toured in Europe with his current improvisational groups; performed his interactive multi-media composition “Internal Combustion” for violin and orchestra at The Philharmonic, Berlin; and been apprehended by the Israeli Defence Forces at the Separation Fence near Ramallah in the occupied territories and arrested for playing violin in front of The Sydney Opera House.
His book about the state of music today  "Music of Place: Reclaiming a Practice" is a manifesto for action in a world that no longer values the performance of music.