🍃 Loose Leaf Transmissions – Weekly Dispatch

Hey friends, I hope you're doing well this week!

I’m really excited to share this new episode of music/Maker with Anuj Bhutani. His path into composing is anything but typical, and yet what struck me most is how intentional every turn has been. There’s a sense of deliberateness in the way he’s shaped his life in music, even in the moments that look nonlinear from the outside.

What I love about this conversation is how deeply Anuj trusts intuition and imagination to lead the way. He draws on personal history, cultural mythology, and an open curiosity that keeps his work moving into unexpected places. It’s one of those episodes that reminds me of how many different ways there are to build a creative life, and how following what feels right can take you somewhere real.

It’s a great one – I think you’ll feel so, too!

🎧 New on the Feed

🎙 music/Maker with Tyler Kline

Now streaming: Expanding Music from Personal History into Narrative Possibility with Anuj Bhutani

On this episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline: Anuj Bhutani traces a nonlinear path into music—moving from metal bands and DIY songwriting to psychology studies, then into community college and formal composition training. He also discusses how personal history, cultural identity, and in-between spaces have shaped his voice; how genre-fluid listening opened new artistic possibilities; and how curiosity, intuition, and narrative emerge as guiding forces in his process.

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🎙 micro/Maker

Episode 055: Letting Language Lead the Way (featuring Caterina Schembri)

Caterina Schembri reflects on how returning to her earliest creative love—literature—opened a new chapter in her work, where writing her own texts and crafting musical ideas now evolve together.

Episode 056: Revealing Power in Words (featuring Emma O’Halloran)

Emma O’Halloran shares how adapting her uncle Mark O’Halloran’s raw, direct text for Mary Motorhead revealed the power of words in her music and sparked an unexpected, ongoing path into opera.

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🔜 Coming Up Soon

Next week on micro/Maker, we’ve got two really thoughtful episodes on the horizon:

James May talks about how improvisation completely shifted his approach to composing: moving him away from strict notation and into a more collaborative, exploratory space where performers help shape the music in real time.

And Anna Huffka returns to dig into the intentional design behind her salon: how environment, care, and comfort guide every choice she makes, and how those details add up to an experience that feels more like a ritual than a routine appointment.

And… something big is coming.

I’ll also be sharing details next week about a new offering from Loose Leaf Transmissions – something I’ve been preparing for a long time and am very excited to finally put into the world.

It’s almost time. Keep an eye on your inbox.

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