Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

The Museum Goes Live presents a vast collection of eccentric hand-built instruments and violin iconography, amassed over the forty-year career of this renowned violinist, composer and experimental musician. Open daily as an exhibition, this cabinet of curiosities will be brought to life each night by a series of performances that activate many of the hand-built instruments on display and bring together some of Australia’s finest experimental musicians.

Exhibition open daily: 10am-6pm

See related evening events below:

Performance: Music for a Time of Dysfunction – Part 1
27 – 30 October, 6:30pm

Jon Rose will be joined by an experimental orchestra Ensemble Offspring, playing a wild collection of regular and invented musical instruments, including the famous Fence.
Featuring: Ensemble Offspring with Claire Edwardes, Robbie Avenaim, Zubin Kanga, Cor Fuhler, Julia Reidy, Erkki Veltheim, Noam Yaffe, Hollis Taylor, and Mary Rapp.

Performance: Music for a Time of Dysfunction – Part 2
2 – 5 November, 6:30pm

For this very special performance, Rose will be joined by a host of musicians and performance artists, in concert with the museum’s collection of robots (including a robot violin that plays data from the stock market), automatons, and a musical coffin.
Featuring: Tess de Quincey, Clayton Thomas, Robbie Avenaim and Alister Spence.

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (02) 8571 9111

Featured artists

• Music of Jon Rose