New on micro/Maker: Weaving Efficiency into Intuition

Plus: why it's important to listen beyond the surface.

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Tyler Kline
August 01, 2025

🍃 Loose Leaf Transmissions – Weekly Dispatch

Greetings, friends, and happy first day of August.

Two new episodes of micro/Maker are streaming this week, including the first to draw from Season 2 of music/Maker: I reflect on how my own creative practice has been shifting lately, especially when it comes to balancing intuition with efficiency.

Then, we revisit a thoughtful conversation with music journalist Vanessa Ague about drone and ambient music, and how those genres can open up surprising ways of listening.

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micro/Maker 021: Weaving Efficiency into Intuition (featuring Tyler Kline)

Tyler Kline shares the four pillars of his creative practice and how they shape a music-making process grounded in patience, instinct, and curiosity.

micro/Maker 022: Listening Beyond the Surface (featuring Vanessa Ague)

Vanessa Ague redefines drone and ambient music as deeply attentive listening experiences, rich with subtlety, presence, and slow transformation.

Episodes are released every Tuesday and Friday. Subscribe now!

🔜 Coming Up Soon

On the next episode of music/Maker, I’ll be joined by Italian-Colombian composer and producer Caterina Schembri.

Caterina joins me from Dublin for a wide-ranging conversation on creative identity, symbolism, and the literary influences that shape her music. She shares how she came to composition later in life, how writing text became central to her process, and how introspection, discipline, and meaning-making fuel her work across forms.

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