🍃 Loose Leaf Transmissions – Weekly Dispatch

Before getting to this week’s offerings…

I wanted to share some of my own work. I recently posted two videos from the same performance of my piano piece TATTOO – the first time a recording of the piece has been widely available. One is a live performance video featuring Eunmi Ko, and the other is a score-follower version from that same January 11 performance at Timucua Arts Foundation in Orlando.

If you’re curious about following the music itself versus watching Eunmi shape it in real time, both are up now. It is an excellent performance!

Performance video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hiu9WfK3Yw4

Scorefollower video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRxx1y4D2hw

This week on Living Classical, I’m sharing music that’s really about how ideas take shape and how they change once they’re set in motion. You’ll hear music by Dale Trumbore that follows the way children learn language, and Anthony Cheung’s Volta, a piece driven by sudden shifts and interruptions that keep resetting the sense of direction. If you like music that stays alert to change, rather than sticking to one idea, this episode is worth your time.

Plus, two new micro·Maker excerpts are out this week. In one, Nathan Hudson talks about creating space for students to make decisions, take risks, and define music on their own terms. In the other, Mahdis Golzar Kashani speaks candidly about composing under restriction, tracing how pressure, resistance, and resolve coexist in her work.

🎧 New on the Feed

📻 Living Classical with Tyler Kline

Now streaming: Living Classical Episode 4 for January 18 - 24, 2026

On this week’s Living Classical with Tyler Kline, music traces moments of discovery and sudden change. Songs by Dale Trumbore, setting poems by Diane Thiel, linger in the fragile excitement of language forming for the first time, while Anthony Cheung’s Volta moves through instability, interruption, and abrupt shifts in perspective.

Also featured: music by Dawn Avery, Kalaisan Kalaichelvan, Connor D’Netto, Linda Kernohan, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Shuying Li, Carrie Frey, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, and Lara Weaver.

View the playlist & listen: https://www.looseleaftransmissions.com/post/living-classical-with-tyler-kline-for-january-18-24-2026

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🎙 micro/Maker

Episode 071: Empowering Students Through Sound (featuring Nathan Hudson)

Nathan Hudson describes how a small experiment in teaching non-traditional notation to families grew into a student-centered festival that prioritizes choice, curiosity, and ownership over correctness.

Episode 072: What It Means to Be a Woman Composer in Iran (featuring Mahdis Golzar Kashani)

Mahdis Golzar Kashani reflects on the constraints placed on women musicians in Iran and how those realities continue to shape both her daily life and her music.

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🔜 Coming Up Soon

Coming up on Living Classical (streaming Sunday, January 25):

This forthcoming episode centers on different ways of listening. In Respiratory Cycle, Rob Funkhouser builds large spans of music around breath itself – sound expanding, releasing, and returning over time. We’ll hear a moment from the cycle called Iris Field.

And in portrait RE, Igor Santos sets up a looping, immersive surface before breaking it open with the recorded voice of Brazilian philosopher Paulo Freire. It’s music that asks: in our modern world, what is the difference between engagement and escapism?

Also featured: music by Mary Denney, Ted Hearne, Sebastian Zhang, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Natalie Dietterich, Caroline Shaw, and others.

Streaming Sunday, January 25.

Behind the scenes, I’ve also been getting music·Maker ready to return in February. Over the past few weeks, I’ve recorded conversations with Christopher Stark, Nicky Sohn, Shuying Li, Mendel Lee, Jessica Ackerley, and Dai Fujikura – with more on the way. Those are sitting on the back burner for now, and I’m looking forward to sharing them with you soon.

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Much gratitude, as always, for spending time with the things I make.