Dr. Tara Rodgers (Analog Tara) is a multi-instrumentalist composer, sound engineer, historian, and writer working across genres and disciplines.
“Her sonic nexus is layered, complex, and performative… carrying her listeners along through deeply felt, deeply connected sonic energy that embodies joy, transcendence, and positivity.” — The Routledge Companion to Creativities in Music Education
Featured Projects
Tara Rodgers – Retrospective
A concert of electronic music from the past 20 years, presented in an immersive 4.1 sound system, with post-performance conversation with DJ Rekha. EMPAC at RPI, Rensselaer, New York, March 2025.
Analog Tara – Fundamentals EP
“You don’t need to know much about techno for Fundamentals to register as something special… A beautifully austere, four-track exercise in quality control and rigorous decision… it is assertive work, bold in the precision and subtlety it takes to mix such signals with thrill and grace and restraint.” — NPR Music
“Top to bottom, this is well-crafted dance music…” — The Washington Post
Wammie Award nominee and FACT Magazine Best of 2018
Analog Tara – Dimensions EP
“Full of warm, soulful techno with a distinctly human touch… feels both perfectly functional and still otherworldly.” — Resident Advisor
“Rodgers has become renowned for producing quality dance music… funkadelic house at its languidly louche best.” — The Playground
Tara Rodgers – Pink Noises
“An absolutely singular undertaking which has staked a claim to changing the ways in which we think about electronic music.” — Cycling ’74
“A must for any electronic musician.” — LANDR
Cover photo from New York City, ca. 1997.