Hey there, everybody – I hope you had a good week!

I’m currently away at my first ever (micro)residency at Bischoff Inn in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania. I’m here for another 5 days, working intently on a new (and, what appears to be massive) alto saxophone and piano piece which I’m calling TIGERBELLY.

All to say, I’m keeping thins short here this week – all the new offerings are below (five new things for you to check out and listen to!). I especially encourage you to listen to the latest episode of music/Maker featuring composer and artist Jessica Ackerley. It’s an excellent conversation! Read on for more.

Now streaming: Episode 11 for March 8-14, 2026

On this edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline: Kimberly R. Osberg's Seek What You Want to Find was written in response to Henk Pander's paintings of Portland's 2020 protests, as well as the 1948 Vanport flood that displaced nearly twenty thousand people. The text by S. Renee Mitchell urges us to look closer, to find hope without dismissing the violence. The piece ends on a thick, ambiguous chord, asking: What do you see?

Then: Hilda Paredes wrote Epitafio in memory of her mother, who passed away in Mexico City in early 2021 – far away, unreachable during the pandemic. Brass players move on and off stage, a poetic metaphor for distance and impossible travel. And then: electronics granulate and filter the sound, shifting the harmonic spectrum as the ensemble moves through space.

Music by Pura Fé, Clarice Assad, Akemi Naito, Daijana Wallace, Mary Prescott, Gabriela Ortiz, Martha Redbone, Susanna Hancock, Haeyun Kim, and Halina Rice.

View the playlist & listen: https://www.looseleaftransmissions.com/post/living-classical-with-tyler-kline-for-march-8-14-2026

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Now streaming: Composing from Intuition, Image, and Expanded Possibility with Jessica Ackerley

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by guitarist and composer Jessica Ackerley.

In this conversation, Jessica and Tyler trace the arc of Ackerley's artistic life — from rural Alberta to doctoral studies at the University of Hawaii — digging into a compositional process that begins not with notation but with drawing, and a musical identity that refuses easy categorization.

They discuss graphic notation as a tool for equity and collaboration, how Jessica's roots in jazz and rock quietly surface in music written for contemporary ensembles, and the lasting impact of the Arctic Circle Residency on their work.

Learn more about Jessica at https://www.jessicaackerley.com/

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Episode 085: Negotiating Place Through Sound (featuring Andrew Noseworthy)

Andrew Noseworthy traces his musical awakening through Internet-driven discovery, progressive rock, and contemporary composition encountered simultaneously, shaped both by extreme isolation in places like Labrador City and by post-regional networks that transcend geography.

Episode 086: Discovering Film Through a Festival Doorway (featuring C. Jacqueline Wood)

C. Jacqueline Wood recounts how a chance stop at the Ann Arbor Film Festival during her freshman year shifted her path from sports to experimental filmmaking, where she discovered that creating art was about building a feeling through curiosity and choices.

Episode 087: Questioning What Sounds ‘Right’ (featuring Baljinder Sekhon)

Baljinder Sekhon reflects on how early listening experiences shape our perception of musical "truth," and how moving from Michael Jackson and Queen to Shostakovich taught him that open-minded listening can be its own creative act.

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Coming up on Living Classical (streaming Sunday, March 15): music shaped by light and accumulation. Ileana Pérez Velázquez's Lights of lives flowing from your eyes traces how light is drawn into the body and shines back out, moving between reflection and perception, while Zeynep Toraman's a lifetime of annotations reimagines nineteenth-century orchestral repertoire through fractal explorations of melodic lines—a long melody, a lament, a moment in the process of disappearing.

Music by Ileana Pérez Velázquez, Zeynep Toraman, Grace-Evangeline Mason, Fumiko Miyachi, Dobrinka Tabakova, Caterina Schembri, Allison Loggins-Hull, Yu-Hui Chang, Angélica Negrón, and Jimena Maldonado.

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