Greetings from Rabun Gap, Georgia, at the Hambidge Center!

I’m having a great time so far being a bit of a hermit in the North Georgia woods as I wrap up a big piece for saxophone + piano, but wanted to make sure I let you know about everything that’s new this week: an in-depth (and fun) conversation with composer Dai Fujikura on the music/Maker podcast, plus a new Living Classical and three new micro/Maker episodes! Check everything out below, and happy listening.

Now streaming: Living Classical Episode 15 for April 5-11, 2026

On this edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline: It's a reflection on beauty through light and shadow: Daniél Bjarnason wrote A Fragile Hope as a tribute to Jóhann Jóhannsson and the period when Iceland's distinct musical aesthetic was emerging. At the climax, a direct melodic reference to Jóhannsson's breakthrough work Englabörn.

Then: Composer Bill Ryan has traveled to stunning landscapes across the United States with the GVSU New Music Ensemble, performing outdoors for a decade. His Music for a Beautiful Place is an 82-minute ambient journey inspired by those travels—a slowly shifting landscape of sound that invites listeners to slow down and reflect. Hear a half-hour excerpt of this journey, and more, on this edition of Living Classical.

Music by Adam Roberts, Jennifer Jolley, Jeff Scott, Charlie Wall-Andrews, Paul Millette, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Mendel Lee, and Molly Joyce.

View the playlist & listen: https://www.looseleaftransmissions.com/post/living-classical-with-tyler-kline-for-april-5-11-2026

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Now streaming: Letting the Music Find Its Own Way with Dai Fujikura

In this conversation, Dai and Tyler trace a journey that begins with a boy in Osaka secretly composing while his mother was out of the house, and winds through a scholarship to a British boarding school at fifteen, years of hustling musicians at Trinity College of Music into playing his work for the price of a pint, and a friendship with Ryuichi Sakamoto that lasted until Sakamoto's death.

They also get into how a piece reveals itself — or sometimes stubbornly refuses to — the DIY spirit behind Minabel Records, what traditional Japanese instruments mean to someone who first encountered them not in Japan but at Darmstadt, and why a stiff neck at the end of a long day at the desk doesn't mean you wrote anything good.

Learn more about Dai and his music at https://www.daifujikura.com/

Click here to listen: https://www.looseleaftransmissions.com/post/music-maker-with-tyler-kline-episode-48

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Episode 096: Losing Track of Days in the Garage (featuring Brett Copeland)

Brett Copeland traces his earliest artistic instincts to middle school garage bands – writing riffs, experimenting with recording software, and living between punk, metal, and tuba – until encountering Frank Ticheli at Iowa All-State Band revealed composition as a living practice shaped by curiosity and care.

Episode 097: Finding Music in the World Around Her (featuring Hannah Selin)

Hannah Selin reflects on starting late, making field recordings in rural Ohio, and discovering creativity as a bridge between solitude and connection through sound and electronic experimentation.

Episode 098: Language, Lineage, and the Pachuco Spirit (featuring Nicolás Lell Benavides)

Nicolás Lell Benavides discusses how sound, language, and memory intertwine in his recent works, exploring Caló as a way to reconnect with his family's stories and discover new dimensions of musical identity.

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Coming up on Living Classical (streaming Sunday, April 12), it’s music shaped by presence and renewal.

Emma O'Halloran's Only Moments to Live structures a dance between saxophone soloist and ensemble where gestures are picked up and expanded through improvisation—every performance different, everyone listening and responding.

Then: Ben Nobuto's Hope Spiral inverts the downward movement usually linked to anxiety, spiraling upward instead as a euphoric feedback loop reflecting on how to renew joy and wonder so you can fall in love with the world over and over again.

Featuring works by Anna Lapwood, Nicolás Lell Benavides, Arooj Aftab, Somei Satoh, Lillian Yee, Akshaya Avril Tucker, Alex Temple, Daniel Wohl, and René Kuwan.

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