music with heart - tania rose - Blog

Private Concerts

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:18:36 -0700

Mark and i love performing in intimate venues, where the mood is relaxed and friendly, and where people mingle happily. Sadly, venues like this are rare, with one exception...home.

Home concerts are special. They're warm and happy, and they don't come around often enough. Whether we're tucked into the corner of the lounge-room or underneath the pergola, people can relax amongst friends and family, and and make a memorable time of it.

For the next 12 months, Mark and I would like to concentrate our performances in these wonderful places, starting with New South Wales (Australia). If you think you might like to host one of these events in your home just send me an email taniarose@taniarose.net and i'll send you more info on how it all works.

smiles to you :)

Tania

Building the Studio

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:06:31 -0700

One of the hardest things about building a creative space, is having to wait to use it.

I've kinda put recording on hold until the new studio is finished...partly because my recording needs have outgrown my tiny, noisy make-shift studio, but also because i hardly have any space to record in now that the building is underway, as microphones and instruments are competing with building supplies for space.

It's just seems easier to wait...well, sometimes.But then, i just seem to be flooded with things which don't want to wait...ideas, opportunities, silly nonsense...it's enough to drive me crazy.

But with every nail i hammer, i tell myself it's one more nail closer...one more task complete, one less thing to do.

Now where did i leave that ladder?

MuscularRose

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:50:31 -0700

Teaming up with MuscularTeeth (AKA Peter Grigoriadis), started off as a "hmm, let's see if we can work together". I'd never met MT, but really liked his attitude, his music, his art, and later his friendship. Now we're close to half way through our first collaborative recording project which we've loosely titled (for now a least) MuscularRose, a self-titled album of our partnership.

It's refreshing to work in a way i never have before. It's hugely exciting, and challenging in new ways, which stimulates my creative thinking in spontaneous bursts...something which suits where i'm at at the moment It's wonderful to be able to share the creative journey too, to be able to not only create to your own expectations, but also how you think the other person might respond...kinda like trying to pre-empt their approval. We do, after all, have half a continent which separates us, so it's a very remote way of working, and it takes quite a lot of planning to see each other face-to-face.

To top it all off, this project is creating some great music. Hopefully everyone else will have as much fun listening to it as we are making it. Expect something quite different from my end of this project. These are songs, baby! No relaxation music here, though i myself find some of the tracks very cruisey...

Blogalot

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:33:32 -0700

Um, i dont...blogalot, that is.

It's not that i don't want to. I have good intentions, but then have long periods of time when i seem to have nothing specific to say. Though i'm a very talkative person, writing for the sake of writing isn't my thang. So my other blog sometimes goes dormant for extended periods.

But as i'm about to embark on lots of newness, maybe things will change...

RECURRING DREAM

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:30:00 -0800

I always loved that title by Crowded House. It makes me think of constancy, the ever-present cycle, and what goes around comes around.
So on my birthday, that ever cyclic event, which seems to often pass virtually unnoticed in my life, except to a few of those who are close in my life (and the odd generous fan)...i thought it fitting to express how simply magical the cycles of life are. The ebb and flow of a watery existence is perhaps easily seen by those with the sign of the fish swimming in two different directions. I don't know. perhaps its something we all seek, but i feel a strange and familiar comfort in the rhythm of it all. It suits me...and if i can harness it in my own expressive nature, perhaps i could express myself more in the world.
who knows.

So happy birthday to all Pisceans. May your waters be ever warm, and your oceans be clean and majestic, at every turn.

smiles to you :)

CONNECTIONS

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:31:05 -0800

I've been blessed by opportunities throughout my career, sometimes for projects, but more often to do with people. You see I'm rather fond of people, so much so that it's they who inspire my work, not so much beautiful sunsets and picturesque scenery. To me, it's all about the human experience.

So when i make connections with people, i take notice. And when those connections lead to opportunities to create and share a journey, it becomes an important part of my own growth, which in turn validates my artistic output.

It's pretty rare for me to make deep creative connections that i feel reach beyond my own capacity to understand, so i take them as being very precious. I value them in a way that's very different from my own personal value of my creativity, for these things are extensions outside of myself that then lead on to more in a self perpetuating cycle of the shared experience, the purpose, one could argue, to life itself.