Andrea Rieniets
Andrea Rieniets presents an introductory session of her Open Hearted Lyric Writing to Make Extraordinary Songs.
Andrea Rieniets works as a singer; is an awarded writer for theatre; lyricist for opera and contemporary song; composer for concert, circus, drama and dance; musical director for actors and choirs; trainer and educator in using arts for social change; producer of live events and recordings.
Andrea creates beautiful filmic moments wrapped up in music.
‘I approach songs as a composer and sound scores as a songwriter. You know, I think what makes energy really interesting, and music is one of the purest forms of energy, is when it has a contradiction or a counterweight. So I never can seem to make anything flow all one way. I learnt that from watching the Murray River when I was a kid fishing with my Dad near Tocumwal. When I'm creating music I feel like I’m swimming; navigating the snags and undertows and always looking for the sandbar to relax over! It’s a lovely messy, muscular feeling and why I adore composing so much. Most of my work is commissioned so I use a research-based method of writing; transforming ideas, interviews, long conversations into melting moments. The trick is to be able to access the emotion at any given time. Having been asked how I do this I took some time out to track what I do and came up with the Open Hearted series of workshops to hand it over to others.’
To find out more background on Andrea go to happyhead.com.au/about/
Amongst songwriters Andrea treads a fascinating path, having been awarded the Centenary of Federation Medal for Services to Australian Society through Writing for Theatre, being the first Australian musician to be a guest of the Australian National Antarctic Expeditions on a resupply ship to Macquarie Island and awarded for entrepreneurial activities in arts/business.
Andrea has two labels – Happyhead for her adult contemporary work and Cha Cha Sam - music for big spirited kids and their grownups.
Andrea is a generous and inspired trainer. Her goal is always to get participants to the ‘Ah’ moment in learning. In this one hour session Andrea will offer a tasting plate of five aspects of her Open Hearted Lyric Writing to Make Extraordinary Songs process.
You’ll get insights into:
- How to organise your creative personas or attitudes when making up songs so that you have a veritable team of writers inside you power housing through songs!
- How to use your body in different ways to access different levels of emotional material.
- How to go 3 times as far and get 10 times the emotional impact with your lyrics.
- How to apply a little known interview technique to get amazingly honest, clear lyrics.
- How to make lyrics that stop people in their tracks.
To hear what past participants have discovered from Andrea listen to the Snapvine recording at
happyhead.com.au/category/services/open-hearted-workshops/
Andrea’s introductory session of her Open Hearted Lyric Writing to Make Extraordinary Songs is a beautiful complement to the sessions by Jason Blume.
Andrea is mentoring throughout the weekend and promises a very bad rendition of the beloved Hula from her recent trip to Hawaii. Is nothing sacred? Watch out! |
