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08/07/2025

🎧 New episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline is out now — featuring composer and producer Caterina Schembri!

Caterina shares her creative journey from starting music later in life to building a deeply personal practice that blends literature, symbolism, and harmonic exploration. In this episode she discusses:

📖 Writing her own texts and lyrics

🌿 How symbolism and imagery shape her music

🎙 Navigating academic, commercial, and artistic pressures

…and lots more.

Listen wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.
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07/24/2025

Composer Nicolás Lell Benavides writes with deep curiosity: about culture, land, memory, and the stories we inherit.

In this new episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Nicolás reflects on how conversation and collaboration shape his work, from New Mexican Catholic folk figures to sage grouse and cottonwoods. It’s a candid, expansive look at what it means to write with purpose, and to grow alongside the people you make art with.

New episode out now – listen wherever you get podcasts or at the link in bio.

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

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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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05/30/2025

🎧✨ This week on micro/Maker…

Ania Vu talks about how personal hardship reshaped her relationship with time — and how natural sounds, poetic pacing, and bell-like structures have become central to her work.

In another episode, Phong Tran shares how architecture and emotion drive his process, using a feedback loop of improvisation, sketching, and reduction to shape each piece.

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05/29/2025

✨New episode of music/Maker is out now featuring composer Marc Mellits!💥
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Marc is one of the most frequently performed living American composers. His music is rhythmically alive, vividly orchestrated, and just plain fun to play, which is a big part of why it’s heard around the world.
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In this episode, Marc and Tyler talk about:
🎹 Improvising along to a muted TV as a kid
📝 Why beautifully engraved scores matter
🎻 Writing music that performers genuinely love to play
🌍 How Romania became more than just a creative home
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How Fun Can Fuel a Composing Career with Marc MellitsLISTENApple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Amazon Music | Acast | DeezerComposer Marc Mellits is one of the most frequently performed living American composers, known for his rhythmically vibrant, vividly orchestrated, and viscerally engaging musi...

05/23/2025

🎧✨ This week on micro/Maker…

Shelley Washington looks back on the leap of faith that led her to pursue a master’s in composition — after a year of soul-searching, odd jobs, and serious uncertainty. With a push from mentors and a whole lot of heart, she stepped into the unknown and started building a creative life in New York.

Meanwhile, Roger Zare shares how hearing Stravinsky’s Firebird live reignited his love for the orchestra. That spark led to a burst of early compositions — and a lifelong fascination with texture and color in music.

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