Quattro cd neanche lontanamente bastano a rappresentare l'intera collezione del Rosenberg Museum, ideato e allestito nel corso degli anni da Jon Rose con esemplari di ogni immaginabile (e inimmaginabile) tipo di violino: ci prova comunque Relative Pitch Records, e dà una mano anche ReR Megacorp.
Scrive Rose: "The Rosenberg Museum is a critical component of the Gesamtkunstwerk centred on my instrument - the violin. When in 1976 I first imagined such a conceit, I had few resources with which to realise an ambitious project, but slowly I put flesh on the bones. The violin became generic: everything on, with, and about the instrument that my imagination could create. The museum remains a clearing house for experiments and contexts. The itinerant life of a practising musician meant the museum never had a permanent home until I moved to the centre of Australia in 2021, finally gaining a suitable space for both museum and concerts. The museum collects not only my own homemade or hacked string instrument inventions and derivatives, but also violin stories - both true and fabricated - pertaining to the musical other, historically twisted, or culturally critical. The museum holds 65 playable instruments at last count, and something like 1,000 other artefacts of violin iconography. With the instrument collection now easily accessible, I can see that - apart from fundamental sonic exploration - there is something of the early 20th-century ‘one man band’ about the physical requirements and combinations of these inventions. I’m happy to be part of that tradition."
https://relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com/rosenberg-museum
https://tinyurl.com/RosenbergMuseum
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