tania rose: Bio

Australian music artist Tania Rose is far from your typical “new age” musician. Although well known for her dreamy almost-instrumental CD catalogue, Tania’s career has been peppered with eclectic projects outside of the mainstream, and cross-genre recordings.

Her biggest and most widely acclaimed work was the soundtrack to CORAL SEA DREAMING in the early 1990’s, an undersea film by fellow Australian and Emmy award winning filmmaker David Hannan. Significantly David and Tania teamed up again for a high definition follow-up film in 2010, CORAL SEA DREAMING -AWAKEN.

A passionate advocate for global sustainability and self sufficiency, Tania’s involvement in these projects holds great personal significance. Producing her own work from her private studio, Tania’s music is often a blend of acoustic instruments, sound recording, and the synthesized world, which she couples with a mesmerizing angelic voice, often using it as an instrument.

Eclectic in her influences, Tania’s work ranges from instrumentals reflecting Renaissance flavors, to singer/songwriter ballads. Her broad range of creative projects (in particular film and other arts projects), also takes her work into more upbeat and occasionally industrial explorations. But regardless of her platform, Tania Rose’s love of harmonies and delicately weaving melodies are her signature, an influence of both her classical singing experience, and her early passion for classical religious music.

Tania Rose is widely known for her New Age music recordings, which include 43 ANGELS, DRIFT, JOURNEYS, SECRET HEALING MEDITATIONS (spoken word), FEATHER’S BREATH, LITTLE WHITE CLOUD (a cd for children), aND WHISPERS & WISHES. Her live performances are shared with fellow musician and husband Mark Moussa, where they merge their love of live improvisation and exploration.

Although her voice has been described as “mesmerising” and she has a diverse collection of songs, it is only in the last few years that she had begun recording them for public release.

Working with and developing opportunities for young people with and without disabilities in the early part of her career, Tania's passion for Creative Thinking led her to explore her own unique approach to music, which centers around improvisation and serendipity. With a drive to communicate the relationship of music to much of our lives, Tania shares her observations as an artist and as a teacher.

Aside from her musical world, Tania often explores other creative outlets, producing an eclectic collection of unique artworks in a variety of mediums including Textiles, Paper Mache’, and Photography. She designs all of her own CD artwork and has been known to collaborate with other visual artists in a variety of projects outside of music.

With a contrasting interest in technology and old-style village values, Tania Rose places great importance on self exploration and expression, the need to develop opportunities for self empowerment, and the evolution of creative thought. Tania hopes to continue to be part of the ongoing global discussion on a self-sufficient and self-sustaining future.

and don't forget the coffee...

The smell of freshly brewed coffee fills the warm spring air

as she steps outside for a brief interlude with the sunlit world. A few sips later and she enters the studio, a small cosy room filled with ambient light and inspiration. Childrens laughter follows her as far as the doorway... three pairs of feet curious as to which magical music will create the backdrop to their trampoline games this morning. Mummy's voice fills in the spaces between birdsong and rooster cries, and a new world opens up. Tania Rose's world has always been filled with the mystical and magical. Seven-year-olds often seek the solice of imagination, and for Tania it was music which brought her there. No hum-drum piano lessons for her...she wanted to create, not imitate. Her world was that of self discovery, of going within and exploring the possibilities, of working without boundries in the internal world of magic and places unknown. This girl was an explorer, and each time she worked with music, she revisted that space.

The film soundtrack she is working on comes to life.

It's her simple love of film which fuels the fire at times, first realised as a film production assistant in her early career. There is a different force at work in a team project, which balances the solice of one's own private projects. Music-to-film is opening oneself to more tangible influences and logistics, a challenge she revels in. The children stop their play and come through the open door, whispering and giggling, attracted to the mystery of this magical space. She looks at them, her eyes telling them to stay quiet as she crafts a phrase like a renaissance sculptor. The morning is still young, and there is much to do for three small boys. Washing is hung, a snack prepared with swift dexterity, and a quick message with husband, musician, and co-conspirer Mark, before production phone calls, packaging CD orders and putting the finishing touches to the CD artwork she has been lovingly designing.

In the evening it is a different rhythm driving her on.

Munchkins snuggled safely in their beds, it is her time alone in the studio which is the breeding ground for the spiritual elements of creating music. With the lights dimmed and moving in soft coloured gestures, she indulges in the internal world, her private world where she bares her soul, warts and all, to the mysteriousness of the night's calling. And from this place, a new song is born. It begins so simply, and grows with the mastery she has learned over time. Her's is a craft of the imaginable, of possibilities and endless depth. Each piece takes on a life of it's own, turning and moulding until it is suddenly complete. No-one knows where the music comes from...all she knows is it simply must be. [photgraphy by Clare McClelland}