It feels a bit like a big week over here at Loose Leaf Transmissions.

It’s the first time all three of our offerings have been in play at once, with new episodes this week of Living Classical, music/Maker, and micro/Maker.

I'm especially excited about the launch of a new series of music/Maker episodes. This week, I'm joined by Christopher Stark, a composer who's making some of my favorite music right now. We trace his journey from growing up in rural Montana and how that background remains ever-present in his work, we break down his compositional process, and dig into why form has become central to his thinking lately.

It's a fabulous conversation, and I hope you'll give it a listen. Read on for more about that, plus the latest from Living Classical and micro/Maker.

Now streaming: Living Classical Episode 7 for February 8 - 14, 2026

This week’s Living Classical features music shaped by perspective and urgency. Adolphus Hailstork's Nobody Know centers a voice speaking in the language it has known, asking for recognition and redemption. Then, Errollyn Wallen's Hunger moves with sharp contrasts and physical intensity, tracing a landscape shaped by force and memory.

Plus music by Jonathan Bailey Holland, Eleanor Alberga, Jonathan Bingham, Jens Ibsen, Trevor Weston, Nokuthula Ngwenyama, and Valerie Coleman.

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

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Now streaming: Listening Across Place and Process in Music with Christopher Stark

This week on music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Christopher Stark reflects on how landscape, identity, and environment intertwine in his work, and how patience, revision, and trust guide his process. A Guggenheim Fellow and Rome Prize recipient whose music is deeply rooted in the American West, Christopher talks about how his small-town Montana beginnings and self-taught guitar playing led to a life in composition, how residencies function as spaces for artistic renewal, and how creative work can carry the imprint of the places we come from.

Read more and stream this episode at https://www.looseleaftransmissions.com/post/music-maker-with-tyler-kline-episode-44

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Episode 076: Music for Places We Miss (featuring Hannah Selin)

Hannah Selin traces the origins of her Pieces of Place project, exploring how memory, geology, and ecology intertwine in music shaped by distance, natural processes, and what's shifting within the Earth and herself.

Episode 077: Presenting Experimental Work to Open Audiences (featuring Gabriel Bolaños)

Gabriel Bolaños reflects on co-founding Proyecto Eco, Nicaragua's first new music ensemble, and how bringing experimental chamber music to bars and cultural centers taught him about audience openness, grassroots funding, and framing contemporary music's value from the ground up.

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Coming up on a new Living Classical (streaming Sunday, February 16): music shaped by history, motion, and growth. Anthony R. Green's A Green Double draws on Black history and classical tradition to create a dance suite where protest, reflection, and joy share the same ground, while George Lewis's String Quartet 2.5 (Playing with Seeds) treats the string quartet as a cultivated landscape where musical ideas develop through motion, reversal, and adaptation.

Also featuring works by Evan Blache, Nia Imani Patterson, Shaka Marko, Katahj Copley, Shawn E. Okpebholo, Evan Williams, Hannah Kendall, J. Kimo Williams, and Tyondai Braxton.

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