Hope y’all are doing well! Just a quick update to end the week.

micro/Maker is now streaming three times a week: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. I know, I know… "micro" is doing a lot of work these days. But there are so many great conversations happening in that space, and I wanted to make more of them available more often. Between micro/Maker and Living Classical (Sundays), that's four new episodes a week, sometimes five when music/Maker drops every other Thursday.

All to say, this week's conversations are below, along with what's coming up on Living Classical. Thanks for being along for the ride as Loose Leaf Transmissions keeps growing!

Now streaming: Living Classical Episode 10 for March 1-7, 2026

The latest Living Classical features music shaped by majesty and meditation: Jennifer Higdon's Low Brass Concerto was written as a portrait of the Chicago Symphony's legendary low brass section – moving between solos, duets, and chorales with nothing but the challenge of the moving line.

Then Ellen Lindquist's Mantra stretches a solo gong melody across 25 minutes, built from spectral analysis of gamelan overtones and a retuned sinfonietta to aid concentration like the Sanskrit word itself. Music by Jennifer Higdon, Ellen Lindquist, Aileen Sweeney, Nkeiru Okoye, Cassie Wieland, Mary Halvorson, Mette Nielsen, Kaitlyn Raitz, Nirmali Fenn, and Chelsea Loew.

View the playlist & listen: https://www.looseleaftransmissions.com/post/living-classical-with-tyler-kline-for-march-1-7-2026

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Episode 082: Taking Reich’s Advice (featuring Marc Mellits)

Marc Mellits reflects on how a nine-hour car ride with Steve Reich rewired his plan, leading him to move to New York, start an ensemble, and learn that rejection isn't always the last word when performers champion the music.

Episode 083: Reframing Tuba and Electronics (featuring Brett Copeland)

Brett Copeland dismantles narrow expectations around "tuba and electronics," explaining his hierarchy from fixed-media works to fully integrated systems, and how he's actively working to escape a decade of writing music that simply "sounds like a tuba piece."

Episode 084: When the Audience Is the Performer (featuring Phong Tran)

Phong Tran recounts the surreal experience of creating a graphic score for the A24 film Everything Everywhere All at Once – a piece not meant for the stage, but crafted to create an intimate emotional space for individual performers.

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On a new music/Maker next week, I’ll be joined by Jessica Ackerley.

In this conversation, Jessica and I trace the arc of their artistic life – from rural Alberta to doctoral studies at the University of Hawaii – digging into a compositional process that begins not with notation but with drawing, and a musical identity that refuses easy categorization.

It’s a great episode, and it’ll be streaming beginning on Thursday, March 12!

Then, on a new Living Classical (streaming Sunday, March 8): a pair of works shaped by witness and distance.

Kimberly R. Osberg's Seek What You Want to Find responds to Portland's 2020 protests and the 1948 Vanport flood, urging us to look closer and find hope without dismissing violence, ending on a thick, ambiguous chord that asks: What do you see?

Plus, Hilda Paredes's Epitafio was written in memory of her mother, who passed away in Mexico City during the pandemic – far away and unreachable – with brass players moving on and off stage as a metaphor for distance and impossible travel. Also featuring by Pura Fé, Clarice Assad, Akemi Naito, Daijana Wallace, Mary Prescott, Gabriela Ortiz, Martha Redbone, Susanna Hancock, Haeyun Kim, and Halina Rice.

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