Fringe Benefits 1977-1985, by Jon Rose

Fringe Benefits 1977-1985

by Jon Rose

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1.	Cattle Train and Violin - Gosford NSW, Dec 1979 00:48		buy track
2.	19-String Violin with Stereo Amplification - Sydney 23-9-80 06:50	info	buy track
3.	Fly Trapped in a Violin 00:14		buy track
4.	19-String Violin with Electronics - Sydney 1980 01:51		buy track
5.	Pizz Violin at a Bay with an Extraordinary Ambience - Hawkesbury River 1979 00:53		buy track
6.	16-String Long Neck Violin - NSW Conservatorium of Music, Dec 1982 02:26	info	buy track
7.	19-String Violin - Dangar Island 9-4-1980 00:51	info	buy track
8.	Amplified String Frame & Half Size Wooden Frame, Ship's Piano 7-4-1980 02:25		buy track
9.	A Couple of Sections from the LP "Tango" (1983) 03:39	info	buy track
10.	Installation with Violins Inserted between the Strings - Art Gallery of NSW, Jan 1984 01:02		buy track
11.	Triple Neck, Double Piston, Wheeling Violin - Near Broken Hill, Jan 1985 00:47		buy track
12.	Tromba Mariner - Hawkesbury River 1982 00:33		buy track
13.	The Relative Band - ABC Studios 1984 02:54	info	buy track
14.	Hummer Bow Installation 1979 00:30	info	buy track
15.	Long String Installation 1985 03:19	info	buy track
16.	Polystyrene 2-String Violin, Built In 1983 00:56		buy track
17.	Concert on the Roof of Exiles Bookshop - Darlinghurst, Sydney 1982 02:23	info	buy track
18.	Recording of a Fence Played by the Wind - Outback NSW 01:37		buy track
19.	Violin Played Knee Deep in the Surf - Tasmania, Feb 1978 02:48		buy track
20.	Megaphone Half-Sized Violin And Amplified Right Leg - Exiles Bookshop 1982 00:34		buy track
21.	7-String Homemade Viol with Aerobics Teacher 1984 01:51		buy track
22.	A Double Bow Extract from a Non-Stop 12-Hour Marathon Solo Violin Concert - Alexander Mackie Gallery, Sydney, Jan 1982 01:13	info	buy track
23.	C & W 1979 - Lynn McKenzie & Kendal Country 00:23		buy track
24.	Sydney Airport Project 1984 00:49	info	buy track
25.	10-String Double Violin - Berlin 1986 01:42	info	buy track
26.	String Frame - Sydney, 1980 01:56	info	buy track
27.	Violin with Cheap Cassette Tape Feedback Loop... Melting under the Sun - Sydney, 1981 00:33		buy track
28.	Violin with Built in FM Radio Broadcast, Reception and Amplification 1981 00:28	info	buy track
29.	The "Elbow" Violin with Cheap "Octivida" Feeding Back 1978 00:53		buy track
30.	Tromba Mariner Mk II 01:02		buy track
31.	A "Relative Violin" under De-Construction 00:13		buy track
32.	The Legendary Joe "Doc" Rosenberg At Blacktown Workers Club 19-9-49 02:40	info	buy track
33.	Chinese Quarter-Size Violin with 50 Feeding Parrots - Dangar Island, Nov 1977 01:36		buy track
34.	The 5-String "Rational Trapezoidal Viola" Of Felix Savart 1981 00:53	info	buy track
35.	Slaughterhouse 3 - ABC Radio 14-2-83 02:53		buy track
36.	Half-Sized Violin with Theremin - Canberra, June 1983 01:00	info	buy track
37.	Brahms Was One of the First to Use Edison's Invention - ABC Radio, 1985 01:27	info	buy track
38.	Slaughterhouse 3 Part 2 - ABC Radio 14-2-83 01:48		buy track
39.	6-String Downpipe Mobile and Whirled Speaker - Exiles Gallery, 1983 00:59		buy track
40.	Paris Theatre, 25-5-78 05:30	info	buy track
41.	3 in 1 - Steven Mori Gallery, Sydney, Jan 1984 05:33	info	buy track
42.	Canberra School of Music 6-8-84 02:22	info	buy track
43.	An FBR Trio - Sydney Conservatorium of Music, March 1978 03:21	info	buy track
44.	The Basement, Sydney 14-9-80 01:01	info	buy track
45.	Extract from "Western Window" - ABC 1985 02:33	info	buy track
46.	An FBR Trio 24-5-80 04:36	info	buy track
47.	NSW Conservatorium of Music 26-11-77 03:29	info	buy track
48.	Exiles Gallery 3-7-82 01:51	info	buy track
49.	Dr Rosenberg's Church Organ Solo 15-1-81 02:27		buy track
50.	"The Hulk" - The Sculpture Centre, Sydney 7-7-79 02:32	info	buy track
51.	Canberra School of Music 6-8-84 Part Two 03:34	info	buy track
52.	Art, Empire, Industry - Sussex St, Sydney 14-2-81 07:58	info	buy track
53.	Aeolian Double Neck Violin (Fitted With A Sail) 1984 02:55		buy track
54.	The Well-Strung Ironing Board 1983 00:27	info	buy track
55.	Slaughterhouse 3 Part 3 - ABC Radio 14-2-83 02:30		buy track
56.	The 7-String Viola Mobile - Watters Gallery, Sydney 1982 00:34		buy track
57.	Metal Plate Resonator Violin 1979 00:16		buy track
58.	Murdered the Wrong Beatle, Didn't He? 00:47	info	buy track
59.	Mobile at Praxis - Fremantle 1983 00:29	info	buy track
60.	More Violin Research 1980 00:26	info	buy track
61.	Waltz for the Shaggs - 2MBS-FM 1983 02:56	info	buy track
62.	Burdett-Ellis-Rose Trio - The Basement, Sydney 14-9-80 00:53		buy track
63.	One Man Band Research - Tasmania 1979 01:06	info	buy track
64.	Telephone Concert 1982 02:36	info	buy track
65.	An FBR Trio 25-5-78 01:57	info	buy track
66.	Fence Recording - Dangar Island, Summer 1982 01:26		buy track
67.	String Frame - Dangar Island, 1979 04:56	info	buy track
68.	String Trio - 2MBS-FM 15-8-81 05:20	info	buy track
69.	Sophisticated Lady - ABC Radio 1985 01:54	info	buy track
70.	Two Bits from Mega Slaughterhouse - Jenny's Wine Bar 27-8-83 05:55	info	buy track

about

"In 1977 I started FRINGE BENEFIT, a small organisation in Australia for the promotion (mainly) and recording of improvised music. Recently I decided to listen to a few recordings that were in the Fringe Benefit catalogue, some of which I hadn't heard for 20 years. Over half of these tapes had deteriorated so much that they had become unplayable. I decided to make a 'sampler' of FBR, using material from either cassette or disc (all the LP master tapes except one were sadly destroyed in a Sydney squat).
The recordings on these CDs were made in Australia between 1977 and 1985. Precise dates and places are indicated when known, but there were many tapes without any details on the cover (my fault). There were other FBR recordings and LPs which were made in Europe Japan and America but, since music in these places is so over-documented anyway, I decided to give that material a miss*. I selected recordings which illustrated (1) some of my more successful 'Relative Violin' activities and (2) some of the improvising musicians I worked with in Australia at the time.
The concert extracts on this CD were mostly recorded on a Sony portable cassette player by Rik Rue. The environmental/violin recordings were made by me using a pair of binaural microphones. Other 'studio' recordings are indicated under each track. Either way, all extracts recorded direct to 2-track unless otherwise indicated. These extracts should be treated as sonic snapshots in an archive: the real events are long gone.
It is not intended that these CDs be listened to in one sitting - and that's a health wanring!" - Jon Rose, November 1998

*[Of course, this Bandcamp archive will recover many of those recordings in the coming years]

credits

released January 1, 1999

Copyright © – Jon Rose
Chopped up and sorted at Steim Studios, Amsterdam, July 1998

Executive-Producer – Mike Khoury
Layout, Design – Michael Thoresen
Photography By – Konstanze Binder, Kristin Rose

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Fringe Benefit Records Sydney, Australia

Fringe Benefit Records was set up in 1977 by Jon Rose as a tape library of Australian improvised music. By the time of the final release in 1985, more than 50 cassettes and more than a dozen LPs had been released. This site now exists to digitise and bring those releases to a new audience, beginning with the compilation double CD released on Entropy Stereo Recordings in Michigan in 1998... ... more

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