🍃 Loose Leaf Transmissions – Weekly Dispatch

Hey friends,

Two new micro/Maker episodes are out this week, and both feel like they’re about finding your footing as an artist in totally different ways.

Composer Hannah Boissonneault shares the long, winding path that led her to music school – a story full of doubt, persistence, and the kind of mentorship that can change everything. And Nicolás Lell Benavides opens up about what it means to write for real people, how collaboration shapes his operas, and why revision is its own creative act.

Both conversations are about learning to trust yourself – and others – in the process.

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micro/Maker 049: Finding a Way Into Composition (featuring Hannah Boissoneault)

Hannah Boissonneault reflects on her winding journey into music school, sharing how persistence, mentorship, and self-belief helped her find her place as a composer.

micro/Maker 050: Where Craft Meets Collaboration (featuring Nicolás Lell Benavides)

Nicolás Lell Benavides discusses composing for real people, exploring how collaboration, trust, and revision bring empathy and vitality to his music.

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🔜 Coming Up Soon

Next week on the music/Maker podcast, I’m quite thrilled to be joined by Kurt Rohde.

Kurt’s work embraces imperfection, sincerity, and the creative possibilities inherent in so-called “failure” – all of which resonate deeply with my own artmaking. We dig into how collaboration and community shape their practice, what it means to make institutions more humane and transparent, and how visual art and graphic notation have influenced their scores over time in surprising ways. It’s a thoughtful and grounded conversation about honesty, beauty, and the messy, ongoing process of making work that feels true.

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Take care, my friends, and can’t wait to share more with you soon!