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Rooted in the ethos of public radio, Loose Leaf Transmissions specializes in media for both digital and broadcast audiences.

music/Maker, a new podcast with Tyler Kline, now streaming on all major platforms. Loose Leaf Transmissions: Made for all ears. Igniting curiosity through audio-focused storytelling, we produce high-quality work that reflects a DIY analog spirit while upholding meticulously-crafted production practices.

Loose Leaf Transmissions: Made for all ears.

11/02/2024

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🎬Craft and Artistry in Film Scoring with Austin Hammonds (Part 2)🎬
On today’s episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler continues his conversation with film composer Austin Hammonds.
In Part 2 of this conversation, Austin shares his thoughts on craft versus artistry and discusses the role of the Jurassic Park film score along his artistic journey.
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10/26/2024

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🎥Craft and Artistry in Film Scoring with Austin Hammonds (Part 1)🎥
On today’s episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by Austin Hammonds.
With a seamless fusion of neo-classical orchestral mastery and contemporary production flair, composer Austin Hammonds delivers a contemporary twist on a timeless sound. Drawing from a deep well of musical influences spanning centuries, Hammonds intricately bridges colors and textures the past and the present, offering stories a fresh perspective on the enduring beauty of orchestral music.
This episode is the podcast’s very first two-parter, and it is a deep dive into the world of film scoring. In this conversation, Austin and Tyler discuss their similar backgrounds–and how that starting point led them toward different paths entirely–plus, Austin shares thoughts on the importance of his composition mentors, and we touch on the role of taste in Austin’s work, as well as matters of process and philosophy as it pertains to collaborating with directors and producers.
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10/19/2024

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🌟Musical Imagination and Artistic Responsibility with Mahdis Golzar Kashani🌟
On today’s episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by Mahdis Golzar Kashani.
Born in Tehran in 1984, Mahdis Golzar Kashani is an internationally acclaimed Iranian composer and pianist whose work has earned her recognition across prestigious stages and institutions worldwide. She began studying piano at the age of six under the guidance of renowned musician Javad Maroufi and Art and Literature School of IRIB, and gave her first solo concert at 14 at Seda va Sima University. Although she initially pursued a degree in electronic engineering at Azad University, her deep-rooted passion for music led her to switch paths and obtain an M.A. in composition from Sooreh Art University.
In this discussion, Mahdis talks about her journey as a composer, which led her from her native Iran to living and working in Europe. She also tells this powerful story about what led her to decide on being a composer as a career, and shares an in-depth background of challenges she has faced being from Iran and how that has influenced her life and artistic trajectory.
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10/12/2024

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⚡️Independent Pathways in Music with Chris Opperman⚡️
On today’s episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by Chris Opperman.
Dr. Chris Opperman wields a special array of expertise. He is a composer of wildly original music, a top orchestrator and arranger, a dedicated and visionary educator, and a trusted advisor for an incredible cross-section of the music industry.
Chris holds a Ph. D. In Music Composition and has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses on music theory and composition, popular and classical music history, music technology, and the music industry.
Chris is a fascinating musician who basically has one foot in the commercial music industry, and one foot in the contemporary concert world. In this conversation, he discusses the influence of Frank Zappa on his music, and his life. He and Tyler also talk about the variety of music that Chris makes and why that’s important to his creative ethos… and how he’s been able to forge his unique path throughout his career.
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10/05/2024

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🔮Investigating the Inner Lives of Sounds with Hannah Selin🔮
On today’s episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by Hannah Selin.
Composer, violist and vocalist Hannah Selin works with acoustic instruments, voices, electronics and field recordings to create striking and vibrant sound-worlds. She grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania helping her parents caretake a cemetery and listening to her mother write songs on scordatura guitar. Her music carries from this a sense of the supernatural, a closeness with the earth, and a love all things resonant. Hannah is co-founder and lead singer with the band GADADU, and violist and founding member of Xanthoria Quartet and Violalia Duo. As a violist, Hannah performs with chamber groups and orchestras throughout the New York metropolitan area.
In this conversation, Hannah discusses how her entry point into music composition was quite a bit different than maybe most people’s and how she works with manipulating sound to discover interesting musical material. Nature is also a significant part of Hannah’s creative process, and she and Tyler get into the weeds about that… and bond over their mutual love of Italo Calvino.
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09/28/2024

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☀️Florida, Food, and Empathy in Writing with Carlynn Crosby☀️
On today’s episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by Carlynn Crosby.
Carlynn Crosby is a writer and editor based in Gainesville, Florida, where her interests range from archival research on Florida food and culture to experimental forms of fiction and memoir. She currently works in book publishing and is pursuing a PhD in literature. She has been described as “decent.”
Carlynn is a storyteller–she tells stories about Florida places and people, and she and Tyler dig deeply into what that means for her. They also talk quite a bit about food in this conversation, primarily how writing about food can be a catalyst to springboard into other kinds of cultural and societal topics.
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09/21/2024

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🧬Transmuting Scientific Processes into Music with Roger Zare🧬
On today’s episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by Roger Zare.
Roger Zare has been praised for his “enviable grasp of orchestration” by the New York Times and for writing music with “formal clarity and an alluringly mercurial surface.” He was born in Sarasota, FL, and has written for a wide variety of ensembles, from solo instruments to full orchestra.
This conversation is an absolute deep dive into all sorts of scientific topics, but there’s no need to worry. You’ll quickly realize that Roger speaks about these things in a down-to-earth way, which serves him well in his creative practice. Much of Roger’s work involves connecting complex matters with musical audiences and, in some cases, young musicians.

Roger also discusses his musical roots growing up in Sarasota, his first experience as a composer at a very young age, and how his focus on large ensemble writing has shaped his pathway as a composer.
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09/14/2024

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🌀Pursuing Deeper Inquiries through Music with Mat Campbell🌀
On today’s episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by Mat Campbell.
While forming an ever-evolving freelance career as a creative in the concert, media, and pageantry arts worlds, Mathew “Mat” Aaron Campbell uses his proficiency in notation and music production software to elevate his solo ambitions or projects with others in various capacities to the next level. Over time, this list has grown to include the roles of composer, conductor, arranger, sound designer, engraver, and collaborator across stage, studio, field, and genre.
Mat wears many different hats as a creator, and he and Tyler dig deep into the various facets of his career in this conversation. Mat also shares his journey from the small town he grew up in in the Rio Grande Valley to today, some thoughts on recent notation software news, and how he elevates the young musicians who play his music into the concepts he explores in his work.
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09/07/2024

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⚡️Composition as a Process of Learning with Han Hitchen⚡️
On this episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by Han Hitchen.
Award-winning composer Han Hitchen writes for a wide range of genres, spanning across various acoustic and electroacoustic settings. His music is informed by his experiences as a q***r person, and draws inspiration from socially taboo topics that he hopes to bring attention to.
Since Han’s identity is so intrinsic to his creative expression, a significant chunk of this conversation is focused on that. Han also talks about those taboo topics that he explores in his music, as well as the ways he champions marginalized folks within and outside of his music.
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08/31/2024

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✨An Intercultural Melding of Music with Shruthi Rajasekar✨
On today’s episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by Shruthi Rajasekar: Composer & Vocalist.
Named by The Guardian as a composer “who will enrich your life”, Shruthi Rajasekar is an Indian-American musician exploring identity, community, and joy. A 2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Shruthi draws from her unique dual background in the Carnatic (South Indian classical) and Western classical traditions to create intersectional music.
In this conversation, Tyler takes a deep dive into Shruthi’s intercultural identity and work, and a significant part of this discussion is Shruthi sharing her journey as a musician with roots in Carnatic music and how that has melded with her work as a Western classical composer over time.
She and Tyler also talk a bit about gatekeeping issues in the contemporary music field, how composers might consider placing more emphasis on process rather than product, and what experimentation means to her in her work.
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08/24/2024

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💥Catalyzing Musical Communities with Nathan Hudson💥
Nathan Hudson is a composer, educator, performer and curator living in Charlotte, NC. His music has been called “…simple, yet cinematic” and “Tonal-lyrical-primal-old/new-synthetic and partakes of a rhapsodical quality in new ways…”.
His debut album, ‘music for falling and flying’, in collaboration with author Ben Loory is set to release this fall. Nathan is currently on the music faculty at Central Piedmont Community College, and is the managing director for the Next Generation Trumpet Competition. When he’s not composing, he enjoys thinking deeply about coffee, playing disc golf, and spending time with his wife and three cats.
In this conversation, Nathan discusses the thread from his childhood making music in church and how that expanded into the music he makes today; all the ways he cultivates community as both a composer and a trumpet player; and his close collaborations with the author Ben Loory.
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08/17/2024

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🌟Coming Together through Music and More with Emily Koh🌟
Today on music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by Emily Koh.
Emily Koh is a Singaporean composer-bassist based in Atlanta, Georgia whose music reimagines everyday experiences by sonically expounding tiny oft-forgotten details, and explores binary states such as extremities/boundaries and activity/stagnation. She especially enjoys collaborating with creatives of other specializations.
In this conversation, Emily discusses her Singaporean roots, including how essentially all students had to produce a composition portfolio as part of their education. She also talks about how collaboration brings out the best in her work, and Emily and Tyler have an extended discussion towards the end geeking out about food and drawing all kinds of connections between food and music.
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08/10/2024

We’re back next week with new episodes of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, but until then, be sure to catch up on or revisit recent episodes! Check out these fantastic conversations wherever you enjoy podcasts, or at the link in our bio. 🌟

08/07/2024

While we continue our mid-season break, we want to let you know how easy it is to support Loose Leaf Transmissions and music/Maker with Tyler Kline!

The easiest ways to support the show is by telling a friend about it, and by listening! We’re on virtually every platform, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

You can also boost our visibility by leaving a rating and review on your favorite podcast app. And if you’re feeling extra generous, please consider joining our Patreon community for as little as $2 a month to access episodes early and listen to exclusive audio features. Find all the details at the link in our bio!

What has been your favorite conversation on music/Maker so far? Let us know in the comments, and tag a friend who you think needs to know about the podcast!

08/03/2024

Starting today, music/Maker with Tyler Kline is entering a two-week mid-season break. While we refresh and recalibrate, be sure to catch up on or revisit the first run of episodes!

07/27/2024

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🌟Artistic Expression as a Polymedia Journal with Phong Tran🌟
On today’s episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by Phong Tran.
Phong Tran is a Brooklyn-based composer and visual artist primarily working in digital and electronic mediums. His work revolves around emotional experience in digital and nonphysical spaces. Phong’s solo work has been released through New Amsterdam Records, people | places | records, and slashsound.
In this conversation, Phong shares what led him to dive into electronic music in the first place and what that artistic transformation was like; how he views ocmposition as a form of journaling - and even therapy; and why creating emotional space in his creative work is so important.
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07/20/2024

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🍃Letting Go of Musical Expectations with Hannah Boissonneault🍃
Hannah Jane Boissonneault is a composer-performer and touring musician based in Austin, Texas. Through her work as a composer, bassist and vocalist of her band Blank Slate and her multi-genre project Feels Like Honey, Hannah strives to create music that entwines the communities she is a part of.
In this conversation, Hannah shares the unique threads that came together for her when it was time to major in music composition; how she balances her work as a performer with being a composer - and how she does it across genre and style - and how she sees simply thinking about music as a valid part of the composition process.
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07/13/2024

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🌊A Deep Dive into Timbral Sensitivity with Gabriel Bolaños🌊
On today’s episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by composer Gabriel Bolaños.
Gabriel José Bolaños Chamorro is a Nicaraguan/American composer of solo, chamber, orchestral and electroacoustic music. He frequently collaborates closely with performers, and enjoys writing music that explores unusual techniques, structures, and timbres. He is interested in computer-assisted-composition, auditory perception, linguistics, graphic notation, improvisation, and modular synthesizers.
In this conversation Tyler and Gabriel cover a lot of ground, and get into the weeds a bit with some pretty academic topics… but first, Gabriel discusses how the guitar was the entry point into music; his Nicaraguan roots, and how that does - and, maybe more importantly, does not - influence his music; how he leverages computer-based tools to assist him in his compositional practices; and lots, lots more.
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