Listen to the sounds of winter on the debut episode of Living Classical

Plus, two new micro/Maker episodes!

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Tyler Kline
December 12, 2025

🍃 Loose Leaf Transmissions – Weekly Dispatch

First things first: thank you for the incredibly enthusiastic response to the launch of Living Classical with Tyler Kline. I’m genuinely grateful.

The first episode is now streaming; use the link below to listen.

In the future, new episodes will be released every Sunday, and each Friday, I’ll include that week’s episode here in the newsletter as an easy reminder and entry point. Of course, you don’t need to wait on the newsletter to listen. You can follow the show on Mixcloud, visit livingclassicalradio.com anytime, or follow Living Classical on Instagram (@livingclassical.radio) for updates as new episodes roll out.

You can also find a station near you to listen to the show on the radio. I’m happy to share that the show is broadcasting on 10 radio stations nationwide! And a hearty shoutout and welcome to 90.5 WUOL in Louisville for adding Living Classical to their schedule beginning Saturday, December 13, at 10 pm.

This week’s episode of Living Classical follows the traditions of Modern Notebook, with the first of a series of three episodes inspired by the winter season. This lineup is all about winter weather: music inspired by, or simply evoking, the cold, snow, wind, and everything in between.

Plus, I’ve got two new micro/Maker episodes this week that both orbit the idea of finding (and claiming) your own creative voice. In one, composer and percussionist Sean Hamilton reflects on coming to music from the margins – via punk, screamo, and grindcore – and how chasing the edges of genre helped him discover a practice that truly felt like his own. In the other, Charly Daniels traces a more circuitous path through early success, rejection, and recalibration, ultimately reshaping his work around intuition, performance, and a self-made chamber-rock ensemble that better reflects who he’s become as an artist.

🎧 New on the Feed

📻 Living Classical with Tyler Kline

Now streaming: Special 001, December 7–13, 2025

From the first snowfall to the sudden burst of a winter storm, each kind of weather has its own rhythm – reshaping wind, and the stillness that follows a storm. 

Hour 1 features works by Anuj Bhutani, Jonathan Hannau, Nicky Sohn, Outi Tarkiainen, Asuka Kakitani, Theresa Martin, and Gifrants with music that moves through drifting snow, melting ice, and the quiet tension between fire and frost.

In Hour 2, the landscape shifts again as composers trace the transformations of air and light: from the prismatic movement of wind to the delicate wait for snow. Hear music by Zachary Good, Chloe Upshaw, Shuying Li, Anna Appleby, Angélica Negrón, and David Crowell, each capturing a different facet of winter’s atmosphere.

🎙 micro/Maker

Episode 059: Following the Fringe (featuring Sean Hamilton)

Sean Hamilton shares how discovering music through punk and extreme genres – rather than formal training – helped him find a compositional voice rooted in taste, instinct, and pushing at the edges of sound.

Episode 060: Integrating the Unexpected (featuring Charly Daniels)

Charly Daniels reflects on early success, hard recalibration, and the moment he realized his music needed to expand beyond academic frameworks, leading him to build a more personal, performance-driven practice.

Episodes are released every Tuesday and Friday. Subscribe now!

🔜 Coming Up Soon

As the longest nights of the year settle in, Living Classical turns its attention skyward.

In this episode, the music moves through darkness, distance, and the glow of night. Across two hours, composers explore stars and shadow, weather and memory: sounds shaped by what emerges when the world slows, and the light fades.

From atmospheric reflections on starlight to music grounded in nocturnal landscapes, the program traces how sound, space, and silence meet in winter’s deepest hours, placing each work in conversation across the vast terrain of the night.

Stream beginning Sunday, December 14 on livingclassicalradio.com.

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