Show Notes

• Yantra is a composer and she composed the music for this podcast
• She went to a Steiner School and an all-girls private school. Had a really good balance of creative and academic rigor. Grew up with her mother on TV. Culture and creativity were important in her upbringing
• She was ungrateful for the education that her parents gave her
• Never had a 9 to 5 job. Always project-based
• Yantra believes that there is creative force that runs through everything
• Yantra wants a career that has to do with music, still have a career until she’s 80 and still be earning money
• Doctors are 75% practical and 25% academic. PhD are 100% theoretical
• Doesn’t want to put financial pressure on music
• Felicity wants a second career as a Psychologist to create income so that the pressure is not on her art
• Some artists are purely comfortable to create something for sale
• Yantra did 4 major projects – including a collaboration with David Helfgott (classical pianist)
• Commercialism comes under career
• It is hard to get gigs in the Australian film and music industry
• The statistics for film composers is tiny – women is at 3%
• There should be legislation government-level to change the current circumstance
• If Yantra gets stuck with composing music, she does the opposite – which is the physical – go in the garden or do some walking. She is interested with the American-Indian style of balance; each direction has a certain position
• Felicity talks about the creative space – warming up the space for performance
• Yantra lights a candle and sets up Buddhist ritual and intention
• Yantra has done BBC work – working with Burmese refugees and incredible musicians. Wonderful period of her life
• Energy is changing as we get older but there are so many important projects to do
• It really depends on what’s going on at the time – when saying yes to a project
• Yantra will be playing in some concerts – Sydney Sacred Music Festival, Gypsy Ensemble, etc. She also produces people
• Felicity have been speaking to a lot of artists recently and how they balance all the necessities of life effectively
• Yantra is project-focused but has downtime watching movies which is important to keep balanced
• Felicity finds when she works at home, people find it easy to interrupt her
• Yantra has a lot of work on iTunes and currently updating my website http://www.yantra.com.au/ and her Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-3MolyYWKX8_394VwPZmdQ
• Yantra wants to do a 3-month residency in New York for NeuroScience

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