Abstract: The work of Jon Rose has covered a huge range of practices, from improvising with the conventional violin to intervening in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, and from building violin-related instruments to adapting violins to bowing the massive fences of the Australian Outback. In this paper I explore the relationship between straight lines and music, set against the different musical experiments that characterise Rose's career. Starting from the premise that, according to Greek mythology, the straight line and the harmonic series originate at the moment the infant Hermes builds the first lyre, I explore what meanings we might draw from that relationship through an examination of the work of a contemporary artist who, like Hermes, is at times an inventor with trickster-like qualities.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-07-04
Language: en
Type: article
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