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10/09/2025

🎧 “Going into my doctorate, I felt another sort of hurdle… I spent all this time researching Takemitsu and his rediscovery of his own heritage and identity — and it clicked that maybe I should follow suit. Maybe I should also navigate a similar trajectory, figuring out how my identity plays a role in my creative output.” – Michael Frazier

In this episode of music/Maker, composer and educator Michael Frazier talks about identity, influence, and how studying Toru Takemitsu led him to reflect on his own creative path.

Full conversation streaming now — listen wherever you get podcasts or at musicmakerpodcast.com.

10/02/2025

🎧 New episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline is out now — featuring composer Michael Frazier!

Michael reflects on how embracing his Black and Latino identity became central to his creative voice. In this episode:

🎙 Discovering confidence in his personal artistic language

🎷 How jazz shapes his sense of harmony, gesture, and more

🌿 Cultural identity as a guiding force in his work

💡 Writing music that feels fully authentic and personal

Listen wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.
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09/18/2025

🎧 New episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline is out now – featuring composer and pianist Beyza Yazgan!

Beyza shares how improvisation opened the door to her compositional voice and how her Turkish roots, global influences, and visual art all inform her creative practice. In this episode:

🎙 Evolving from pianist to composer

🎼 Trusting instinct and quieting the inner critic

🌿 Cultural identity and global influences

🎨 Building a multidisciplinary artistic life

Listen wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.

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09/04/2025

🎧 New music/Maker with Tyler Kline is out now!

Functional potter, educator, and Atmospheric Artist-in-Residence at Queen City Clay, Sinclaire Marie, shares how her practice centers on atmospheric firing, functional forms, and a tactile language of texture, intention, and use. Based at one of the country’s largest community clay studios in Norwood, Ohio, she’s found both space and support to expand her work through teaching, residencies, and community firings.

In this conversation:
🔥 Listening to fire and atmospheric firings
🌲 Rolling cedar patterns into clay (a Diné practice of cleansing and balance)
🍶 Pots as carriers of memory — throwing lines, flashing, ash, glaze traces
🤝 Community wood-firings + barter/trade ethos
📚 Teaching as a welcoming space & the discipline of showing up

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08/21/2025

🎧 New episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline is out now — featuring composer Charly Daniels!

Charly shares his journey from sequencing music as a teenager to becoming an orchestral composer whose work is performed widely throughout Mexico and internationally. In this conversation:

🎼 How synesthesia shapes his harmonic world

🎻 Mexico City’s energy as a creative influence

🎙 Letting go of memory-based composition

💡 Writing music that leaves an emotional sensation rather than themes

Listen wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.
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07/10/2025

🎧 New episode of music/Maker is out now — featuring composer and organist Graeme Shields!

Graeme’s work blends the Lutheran tradition, avant-garde experimentation, and old-world folk influences — often with a dose of dry humor. In this episode:

🎼 Humor and eccentricity as creative tools

🎹 Expanding the organ’s role in contemporary music

🎙 How community is central to his practice

🎛 Blending sacred tradition with new music innovation

Listen wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.

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Embracing Humor and Mystery in Music with Graeme ShieldsLISTENApple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Amazon Music | Acast | DeezerOn today’s episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by Canadian-American composer and organist Graeme Shields.Graeme’s work blends elements of the Luthe...

06/26/2025

🎧 New episode of music/Maker is out now — featuring composer and pianist Yue Song!

Yue reflects on her journey from studying composition in China to finding her voice as an artist in Ireland. In this conversation, we talk about:

🌿 How nature inspires her work

🎹 Blending theory, emotion, and intuition

🎭 Writing operas that confront social injustice and war

🎙 The role of collaboration and experimental sound in her practice

Listen now wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.

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Building Confidence through Creative Growth in Composition with Yue Song LISTENApple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Amazon Music | Acast | DeezerYue Song is a Chinese composer and pianist based in Dublin, Ireland. Her music spans opera, orchestra, chamber, choral, and electronic works, and has been....

06/20/2025

NEW EPISODES of micro/Maker 🎧
This week’s episodes dive deep into sound, space, and the weird stuff that shapes who we are.

🎶 Contextualizing Every Sound and Silence — Composer-performer Sean Hamilton shares the guiding philosophies behind his hybrid performance setups, from Lachenmann-inspired timbre to Feldman-like spatial awareness (and a suitcase full of gear).

💿 Embracing the Weird Stuff — Writer Vanessa Ague reflects on her teenage discovery of Radiohead’s Kid A, and how it opened the door to a lifelong love of experimental sound.

micro/Maker episodes drop every Tuesday and Friday!
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06/19/2025

“Sometimes a project tells you what it wants to be.”

Filmmaker C. Jacqueline Wood talks about the ever-shifting conversation between artist and medium — and the gut feeling that tells you when a work is finished, even if it’s not what you first imagined.

🎧 Hear more on the latest episode of music/Maker — wherever you get podcasts or at musicmakerpodcast.com.

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06/13/2025

🎧 Two new episodes of micro/Maker are now streaming!

Composer Daijana Wallace reflects on the complicated realities of increased visibility following 2020 — and how that moment reshaped her creative path. She and host Tyler Kline discuss questions of identity, recognition, and worth, and how she emerged with a stronger sense of artistic confidence.

And, Mahdis Golzar Kashani shares how stories, feelings, and imagery guide her compositional process — almost like scoring a film that plays in her imagination. She opens up about how personal memories and visual narrative give shape to her sound world.

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06/12/2025

🎧 New episode of music/Maker is out now! Featuring Cincinnati-based experimental filmmaker C. Jacqueline Wood.

Jacqueline’s practice spans film, video, installation, and projection, exploring the nature of light, duration, and presence.

In this episode, she and Tyler discuss:

🎞 Emotional honesty and creative vulnerability
🌿 How personal experience shaped her latest film
🎛 The tension between analog and digital media
🎨 Embracing artistic freedom outside of traditional systems

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Archiving Life through Experimental Film with C. Jacqueline Wood LISTENApple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Amazon Music | Acast | DeezerFilmmaker and visual artist C. Jacqueline Wood creates intimate, deeply personal work across moving image, installation, and documentary forms. Her work has screen...

06/06/2025

🎙 TWO new episodes of micro/Maker are now streaming!

✨ In this week’s episodes:

Navigating Music as a Chameleon
Joshua Mallard shares how his journey from aspiring chemical engineer to full-time musician was guided by a practical mindset and openness to multiple creative paths. He reflects on a generational shift in how composers define identity, the value of being a “chameleon,” and how exploring adjacent fields like radio, game, or film music can create more freedom in one’s art.

Practicing Empathy in a Disconnected World
Carlynn Crosby shares why historical context, cultural awareness, and empathy are essential to her creative practice—and how these values are becoming harder to hold onto in an increasingly distracted and polarized world. She and Tyler talk about what it means to be a steward of the future, how technology can erode our sense of connection, and why writing with care is a radical act of preservation.

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