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micro/Maker by Loose Leaf Transmissions

Loose Leaf Transmissions

Short, sharp, and to the point—micro/Maker brings you a quick dose of creativity and craftsmanship from the composers and artists heard on music/Maker with Tyler Kline.A podcast from Loose Leaf Transmissions: Made for All Ears.Online at looseleaftransmissions.com.Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/LooseLeafTransmissions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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10:02

098 - Language, Lineage, and the Pachuco Spirit

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2026/04/10

Nicolás Lell Benavides shares how exploring Caló — the dialect of the Pachuco community — reconnected him with his family’s stories and shaped his creative voice. He and Tyler talk about how sound, language, and memory intertwine in his recent works, from Rinconcito to Canto Caló, and how honoring ancestry through art can uncover new dimensions of musical identity.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at

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15:33

097 - Finding Music in the World Around Her

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2026/04/08

Hannah Selin shares how her path to composition began not with scores, but with sound. She and Tyler talk about starting late, making field recordings in rural Ohio, and finding her way from electronic experimentation to acoustic music. It’s a story of learning to listen differently—and discovering creativity as a bridge between solitude and connection.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at

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9:06

096 - Losing Track of Days in the Garage

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2026/04/07

Brett Copeland traces his earliest artistic instincts not to formal composition, but to middle school and high school garage bands—long days spent writing riffs, experimenting with recording software, and losing track of time with friends. Playing bass and singing in punk and metal bands while simultaneously studying tuba in school band, he describes living between two musical worlds that rarely overlapped, yet both felt essential. That tension sharpened when he encountered a living composer for the

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95 - Blending Hobbies into Creative Work

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2026/04/03

Daijana Wallace shares how her hobbies fuel and complement her creative life, from pairing albums with cooking to her deep dive into mechanical keyboard design. She and host Tyler Kline explore how customizing her keyboard setup has even streamlined her composing and engraving process, blending practical function with sonic satisfaction.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at

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9:45

094 - Eccentricity as a Form of Connection

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2026/04/01

Composer and organist Graeme Shields reflects on humor, eccentricity, and why playfulness matters in music. From kazoo-playing cellists to drumming on the organ with a felt-wrapped board, he finds joy and meaning in the unexpected—and sees laughter as another way to bring listeners closer to the work.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.Support Loose Leaf Transmissions on

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12:36

093 - Treating Computer Tools as Compositional...

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2026/03/27

Gabriel Bolaños considers computer-assisted composition any tool that generates, develops, or enhances ideas—starting with overdubbing on a mini-disc recorder in high school. Now he relies on Open Music, a suite of algorithmic tools, to create harmonic progressions and spectral structures he once calculated by hand over hours. That tedious process, he realized, unconsciously biased him toward liking material simply because he'd invested time in it. Tools like Spear, which reveals a sound's partials

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5:14

092 - Demystifying Death Through Music

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2026/03/25

Han Hitchen reflects on how identity in his music goes beyond queerness, reaching into universal but often unspoken experiences like death and family tension. He shares how confronting discomfort has shaped his creative practice. For him, music becomes a way to demystify what we fear, opening space for reflection, honesty, and connection.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at

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4:47

091 - Writing Music That Speaks Without Words

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2026/03/24

Ania Vu reflects on a theatrical piece where aliens attempt — and fail — to connect with humans. But through music, gibberish, and emotional tone, something deeper gets communicated. She shares how this idea of miscommunication, language limitation, and embodied expression runs through much of her work.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.Support Loose Leaf Transmissions on

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9:27

090 - Listening to the Clouds

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2026/03/20

When Yue Song moved from Beijing to Ireland, the world changed color. Gone were the endless high-rises; in their place came clouds that shifted the temperature by the minute, sunlight that turned to rain and back again. In this conversation, Yue reflects on how the piano first taught her to hear composers’ inner lives—and how Ireland’s weather, light, and soundscapes opened her ears to texture, imagery, and emotion in a new way.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen

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7:25

089 - Taking Big Swings for Others

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2026/03/18

Shelley Washington reflects on the responsibility she feels to advocate for others after receiving support throughout her own creative journey. She shares her philosophy of reaching out, encouraging risk-taking, and creating space for new voices in contemporary music.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.Support Loose Leaf Transmissions on Patreon at

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5:49

088 - Processing Identity Through Sound

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2026/03/17

Austin Hammonds reflects on the role of rhythm, identity, and responsibility in his work — not as fixed pillars, but as ongoing questions. He and Tyler talk about the emotional weight music can carry, why intention matters, and what it means to treat creative work (and the people around you) with care and integrity.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.Support Loose Leaf

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9:20

087 - Questioning What Sounds ‘Right’

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2026/03/13

Baljinder Sekhon talks about early listening experiences and how they shape our perception of musical “truth.” He shares how growing up with Michael Jackson and Queen eventually gave way to a fascination with Shostakovich and a thirst for the unfamiliar. This excerpt explores the power of surprise, the risk of rigid taste, and how open-minded listening can be its own creative act.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get

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9:54

086 - Discovering Film Through a Festival Doorway

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2026/03/11

C. Jacqueline Wood didn’t set out to become a filmmaker. Growing up, her focus was on sports, shaped by a family rooted in professional football. But a chance stop at the Ann Arbor Film Festival during her freshman year at the University of Michigan changed everything. What began as an internship in hospitality turned into a doorway to experimental film, where small, personal projects could carry enormous meaning. From her first in-camera edit to realizing filmmaking was about creating a feeling,

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11:57

085 - Negotiating Place Through Sound

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2026/03/10

Andrew Noseworthy traces his musical awakening not through the classical canon, but through a convergence of Internet-driven discovery, progressive rock, and contemporary composition encountered almost simultaneously. As a teenager, Bartók, Stravinsky, and George Crumb arrived not as historical figures, but as living forces refracted through bands like King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer—music that felt continuous rather than divided by genre or era. Growing up in extreme isolation meant

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5:12

084 - When the Audience Is the Performer

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2026/03/06

Phong Tran recounts the surreal experience of creating a graphic score for the A24 film Everything Everywhere All at Once. Alongside Darian Donovan Thomas, he created a piece not meant for the stage, but for the individual performer — crafting an intimate emotional space through simple musical gestures and imaginative prompts.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.Support Loose

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14:33

083 - Reframing Tuba and Electronics

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2026/03/04

Brett Copeland dismantles the narrow expectations around “tuba and electronics,” laying out a clear hierarchy that moves from fixed-media “karaoke” works, to flexible broken-tape structures, and finally to fully integrated systems involving live processing, multi-channel sound, and video. For him, electronics aren’t an accompaniment but an extension of performance—something that must breathe, respond, and place real agency in the performer’s hands. That philosophy carries directly into his

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8:16

082 - Taking Reich’s Advice

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2026/03/03

A nine-hour car ride with Steve Reich rewired Marc Mellits’s plan: skip the safe teaching job, move to New York, and start an ensemble. After years of mailing tapes to Bang on a Can with no reply, a surprise call from Michael Gordon led to a commission and Five Machines—a piece the All-Stars toured widely. Those performances sparked more invitations (Kronos among them) and a lesson Mellits passes on: rejection isn’t always the last word when performers champion the music.micro/Maker episodes release

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7:52

081 - Shaping Each Piece Without Boundaries

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2026/02/27

Daijana Wallace walks through the evolving pillars of her creative process: intentionality, working without boundaries, and daily repetition. She and host Tyler Kline explore how she begins each piece with a character sketch rather than staff paper, how she avoids locking herself into a fixed compositional voice, and why every project is treated as its own distinct world.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at

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6:47

080 - Three Lenses for a Creative Life

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2026/02/24

Shruthi Rajasekar talks with Tyler about the three touchstones she returns to again and again: identity, community, and joy. She reflects on how understanding identity—both self-defined and externally perceived—helps her shed fear, claim space, and recognize the privileges and complexities within South Asian artistic lineages. She also unpacks how her understanding of community has shifted: from being raised within a tight immigrant network to realizing that real community includes disagreement,

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9:18

079 - Endurance, Memory, and Meaning

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2026/02/20

Sean Hamilton shares how his relationship with composer Stuart Saunders Smith has shaped his artistic identity — not just through mentorship, but through the challenge of performing Smith’s 50-minute vibraphone solo Queen Anne’s Lace. In this excerpt, Sean reflects on the rigor of memory, the discipline of presence, and how the piece prepared him for the large-scale improvisational work that now defines his creative practice.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday and Friday!Listen to music/Maker

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