Harrigans Lane Collective is pleased to announce the national tour of: Unnamed Road – Jon Rose & Erik Griswold
To celebrate the release of their first duo album, Unnamed Road, improvisers violinist Jon Rose and pianist Erik Griswold will tour Australia in 2025, performing in Brisbane, Stanthorpe, Moree, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide, Melbourne, Tara and Alice Springs.
Unnamed Road is a first musical meeting between two Australian innovators, featuring Jon Rose’s tenor and regular violins and Erik Griswold’s prepared piano. The music swings from high energy rhythmic exchanges to dark lyricism; from dense pointillism to moody expressionism, raw percussive, sonic, and textural exploration.
Jon and Erik bring out the best in each other; challenging one another to find an extra gear or to follow the unexpected path.
Tickets: $25 general, $20 Gallery members, free for children aged 15 and under. Bookings essential.
Erik Griswold & Jon Rose
The Unnamed Road tour is supported by Creative Australia
About the Artists:
Jon Rose
Jon Rose
Jon Rose was born in Rochester, UK and now live in Alice Springs. 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, and inter-active electronics.
He is featured regularly in the main festivals of New Music, Jazz, and Sound Art such as Ars Elektronica, Festival D’Automne, New Music America, The Sydney Festival, etc. 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 String Quartet. In 2012 Jon was honoured with The Music Board of The Australia Council’s senior prize – the Don Banks Award for a life-time’s achievement and contribution to Australian music. Jon Rose curates his own violin museum of over a 1,000 artefacts – The Rosenberg Museum.
“From one moment to the next, his violin might sound like a subway car screeching to a halt, the wailing of Jimi Hendrix's guitar, or a gently gurgling mechanical toy. From the cacophony arose memorable jazz riffs and paganini style virtuosity.”
- The New York Times
Erik Griswold
Erik Griswold
Restlessly creative composer, pianist and sound artist Erik Griswold works across contemporary classical, improvised, and experimental forms. For over thirty years he has explored the outer limits of percussion and piano, in projects such as Ecstatic Descent (“powerful music that connects with both the natural with the spiritual,” Sequenza 21), Time Crystals (“a kaleidoscopic exploration of timbre, texture and rhythmic interplay,” RealTime), and 84 Pianos (“joyous and brilliant,” The Australian).
Born in Los Angeles and now residing in Brisbane, Griswold’s work has been presented at Southbank Centre (London), Carnegie Hall (New York), Sydney Opera House, and major festivals throughout Australia and the Asia Pacific. He has received the Australia Council Fellowship in Music, the Michael Kieran Harvey Scholarship, several APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards, including “Work of the year: Dramatic (2022),” and an ARIA nomination. His music can be heard on record labels ABC Classics, Room40, Mode Records, Cold Blue, Innova, Neuma, Move, Immediata and others. Together with Vanessa Tomlinson, Griswold forms the duo Clocked Out, who create original music for prepared piano, percussion, found objects, and toys.