Dienstag, 30.03.2004, 20.00
WIST, Graz

Rose / Weston/ Winter

Jon Rose	violin, electronics
Veryan Weston	piano, harmonium, spinet, clavichord
Manon-Liu Winter	clavichord, piano, harmonium

Manon-Liu Winter	Werke von Louis Couperin und Improvisationen
Jon Rose / Veryan Weston	Temperament
Jon Rose / Veryan Weston / Manon-Liu Winter	Improvisationen

Jon Rose exorziert scheinbar noch immer jene Geister, die ihn im Laufe seines Geigen-unterrichts auch unzählige Violinstücke mit ettiketiert-temperierter Klavierbegleitung spielen hießen. Schon damals erkannte er die Diskrepanz zwischen einem monströsen Flügel des 20. Jahrhunderts und der Geige (wie schon der große Romantiker Tschaikowskij vor ihm). also hat er sich mit Veryan Weston im Duo "Different Temperaments" den (Ver)stimmungen und Spannungsverhältnissen zwischen Geigen und Tasteninstrumenten verschrieben. "anders temperiert" - anderes Temperament? (frk)
Als Klammer und Anknüpfungspunkt zu Alter Musik, die gleichsam mit verschiedenartigsten Stimmungssystemen/Temperierungen, Instrumentarium und Improvisationen operierte, wird Manon-Liu Winter Originalliteratur von Louis Couperin spielen und diese als Solistin und im Trio mit Weston und Rose ins 21. Jahrhundert führen. Eine Projektinitiative von open music/Jeunesse.Fast Forward.20:21

Manon-Liu Winter lebt und arbeitet in Wien. Konzerte in Deutschland, Italien, Grossbritannien, Albanien, Csfr, Ungarn, Frankreich, Norwegen, Schweiz und Osterreich, u. a. bei Wien Modern, Festival Hörgange, Jeunesse, KlangArten, Wien/Berlin Festival 2000 etc. Persönliche Arbeit mit Komponisten und Musikern u. a. John Cage, Maurizio Kagel, Peter Ablinger, Christian Wolff, Radu Malfatti, Katharina Klement, Burkhard Stangl, Franz Hautzinger, Peter Herbert. Soloabende.Uraufführungen.Multimediaprojekte. Rundfunk/Fernsehproduktionen. Projekte für Film, Theater/Tanz. Dozentin bei den Wiener Tagen der zeitgenössischen Klaviermusik. Unterrichtet Klavier an der Universität für Musik in Wien (Professur).

Jon Rose started playing the violin at 7 years old, after winning a music scholarship to King's School Rochester. He gave up formal music education at the age of 15 and from then on, was mostly self-taught. Throughout the 1970's, first in England then in Australia, he played, composed and studied in a large variety of music genres - from sitar playing to country & western; from 'new music' composition to commercial studio session work; from Bebop to Italian club bands; from Big Band serial composition to Sound Installations. He became the central figure in the development of Free Improvisation in Australia, performing in almost every Art Gallery, Jazz and Rock club in the country - either solo or with an international pool of improvising musicians called The Relative Band. In 1986, he moved to Berlin in order to more fully realise his on-going project (of some 25 years): The Relative Violin. This is the development of a Total Artform based around the one instrument. Necessary to this concept has been innovation in the fields of new instrument design (over 20 deconstructed violin instruments including the legendary double piston triple neck wheeling violin, environmental performance (eg. playing fences in the Australian outback using the violin as a bow), new instrumental techniques (tested sometimes in uninterrupted marathon concerts of up to 12 hours long), both analogue (built into the violins themselves) and the more recently inter-active electronics (3 bowing to Midi systems)... plus using the mediums of radio (over 20 major International productions for radio stations like ABC, BBC, WDR, SR, BR, Radio France, RAI, ORF, SFB, etc including 'Eine Violine für Valentin', 'The Long Sufferings of Anna Magdalena Bach' and 'Breadfruit'), live-performance-film, video and television to create a new, alternative, personal and revised history for THE VIOLIN. Jon Rose performs his group projects and solo music in upwards of 50 concerts every year - in North America, Japan, Australia, South America, China, Scandinavia and just about every country in West & East Europe. He is featured regularly in the main festivals of New Music, Jazz and Sound Art e.g. Strasbourg New Music Festival; New Music America; Moers New Jazz Festival; European Media Festival; The Vienna Festival; Ars Elektronica; The Northsea Jazz Festival; Dokumenta; Roma-Europa Festival; Festival D'Automne; Festival Musique Actuelle; The Berlin Jazz Festival, etc. Recently he has also been invited to curate Contemporary Music Festivals in Germany (e.g. Berlin Urbane Aboriginale) and Austria (e.g. Wels 'Unlimited'). Jon Rose curates his own on-going festival "String 'em up" of radical string players and their instruments, taking place in Podewil, Berlin in 1998 and Dodorama and V2, Rotterdam in 1999, Tonic, New York in 2000 and Mains D'Oeuvres, Paris in 2002. Jon Rose has appeared on over 60 records and CD's; He has worked with many of the innovators and mavericks in contemporary music such as Derek Bailey, Butch Morris, Barry Guy, Fred Frith, Shelley Hirsh, Joelle Leandre, Connie Bauer, Johannes Bauer, Chris Cutler, Otomo Yoshihide, KK Null, Toshinori Kondo, Francis-Marie Uitti, Alvin Curran, Evan Parker, Paul Lovens, Phil Minton, Cor Fuhler, Steve Beresford, Eugene Chadbourne, Bob Ostertag, Jim Denley, David Moss, Miya Masaoka, Barre Phillips, Roger Turner, Lauren Newton, Uli Gumpert, Christian Marclay, Richard Barret, etc). In 1989, in co-operation with New Music Festival 'Inventionen' (Berlin), he directed the first 'Relative Violin Festival' with over 50 violinists from around the world. In 1991, he directed "Das Rosenberg Museum", a surrealist satire commissioned by German Television's ZDF, this piece later became the first interactive video ever to be controlled by a violin bow. Other films/videos include 'Café Central' and 'Shopping' (both made for ORF, Austria). Jon Rose is also the originator of 2 books - The Pink Violin and Violin Music in the Age of Shopping (both published by NMA, Melbourne). Jon Rose is currently performing The Hyperstring Project, one of a number of highly acclaimed works for violin and inter-active software. In addition there are performances of Violin Factory featuring large string orchestras and interactive video in Europe and Australia. His current group projects are the 9 piece string group Strung, Violin Music in the Age of Shopping (with the likes of Chris Cutler, Lauren Newton, Otomo Yoshihide, etc); the infamous Berlin Noise-Impro-Rock Band Slawterhaus (with Johannes Bauer, Dietmar Diesner & Peter Hollinger); The interactive 'Badminton' game Perks, based on the musical innovations and perversions of Australian freak composer Percy Grainger; and there are two straight out improvising trios which are currently performing... The Exiles (with Tony Buck &, Joe Williamson), and The Kryonics (with Aleks Kolkowski & Matthias Bauer). A new duo Temperament was formed in 2000 with pianist Veryan Weston, specialising in improvisation with different tunings (Just, 19 tone, etc) for the keyboards and various scordatura for the violins. Other on going projects are Australia Ad Lib which documents alternative music practice in Australia and 'Great Fences of Australia', a collaboration with US violinist Hollis Taylor.

Born 1950 Veryan Weston moved to London from Cornwall in 1972 and began playing as a freelance jazz pianist as well as developing as an improvisor at the Little Theatre Club. He accepted a fellowship with the Digswell Arts Trust in Hertfordshire in 1975 who commissioned him to revise his book on piano improvisation which he was able to do through a subsidy from the Arts Council of Great Britain. During this time he co-founded and composed for Stinky Winkles. With the group he was voted a 'Young musician of 1979' by the Greater London Arts Association and won three major awards in France, Spain and Poland. Whilst at Digswell, he also collaborated with visual artists, giving exhibition/solo performances at the Victorian & Albert Museum (1979) with potter Liz Fritsch, and at Hammersmith Jazz Festival (1980) with visual artist Stephen Cochrane. During this period he composed and performed music for a range of films and documentaries, most notably with Lol Coxhill for Derek Jarman's Carravaggio (1985). This interest in music and media collaborations led to a degree course in Performance Art at Middlesex Polytechnic (now University) where he gained 1st class Honours, and in 1990 he was awarded a Masters in Music Composition from Goldsmith's College, University of London. These qualifications then led to a brief period as a part-time lecturer at Bretton Hall and Middlesex University. Throughout the 1980s and early 90s he worked primarily with the Eddie Prévost Quartet, Trevor Watts' Moiré Music and duets with Lol Coxhill and Phil Minton. He also worked in other ensemble projects with Minton, including 'riverun' the Phil Minton Quartet with John Butcher and Roger Turner. Major festivals have included Zurich, Berlin, Nicholsdorf, Karlsruhr, Warsaw, Wroklaw, San Sebastian, Bombay, Vancouver, St Etienne, Aukland, Nevers, Washington, Lille, Houston, Le Mans, Straasbourg and Victoriaville. His many recordings include releases on Emanem (duo with Lol Coxhill, London Improvisers Orchestra amongst others), Matchless (Eddie Prévost Quartet), Cadillac (Trevor Watts Moiré Music Sextet), Red Note (4 Walls) and others.