🍃 Loose Leaf Transmissions – Weekly Dispatch

Happy New Year, friends, and truly... thank you.

Before jumping into what’s new this week, I just want to take a moment to say how grateful I am for the support you’ve shown across everything I’m building here. Whether you listened to an episode, read along in these newsletters, shared something with a friend, or supported the work on Patreon, it genuinely means more than I can put into words.

Looking back at 2025, we covered a lot of ground together. music/Maker wrapped up the year with 15 new long-form conversations. micro/Maker launched as a twice-weekly series, with 65 episodes released over the year. And, in December, Living Classical officially launched online and on 10 radio stations across the US – a project that’s been years in the making, with much more ahead in 2026.

All of those episodes are still there to explore, revisit, and catch up on – and the work is still very much full speed ahead!

Which brings me to this week.

This week’s Living Classical traces music shaped by lineage, memory, and urgency: from Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s transcriptions of Pura Fé’s Rattle Songs – returning to sounds that shaped his artistic path – to the Infernal Dance from Christopher Stark’s Fire Ecologies, a pulsing response to wildfire, time pressure, and fragile environments.

And over on micro/Maker, two very different conversations this week: potter Sinclaire Marie reflects on wood firing as a communal, fire-driven collaboration that rewards patience over control, while composer Brett Copeland talks about returning to academia with a learner’s mindset – and why helping students expand their sense of what’s possible may be the most important work of all.

🎧 New on the Feed

📻 Living Classical with Tyler Kline

Now streaming: Living Classical Episode 1 for December 28, 2025 – January 3, 2026

On this week's Living Classical with Tyler Kline...

When composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate first heard Pura Fé and her group Ulali thirty years ago, their sound changed his life. Now, Tate has created the first classical transcription of Fé’s Rattle Songs — a work that bridges Indigenous roots and orchestral color. This hour features a collection of those transcriptions, returning to music that shaped Tate’s artistic path and continues to resonate decades later.

Then: A ticking clock opens the Infernal Dance from Christopher Stark’s Fire Ecologies – music born of wildfires, urgency, and the fragile balance of the natural world. It’s a pulsing reflection that fuses rhythm and noise, movement and memory, tracing the sounds of an environment under pressure.

Listen for music by Juri Seo, Missy Mazzoli, Dobrinka Tabakova, Pura Fé, Baljinder Sekhon, Del’Shawn Taylor, Clarice Jensen, Marc Mellits, Kotoka Suzuki, Christopher Stark, Annie Blythe, Brendon Randall-Myers, and Shelley Washington.

View the playlist & listen: https://www.looseleaftransmissions.com/post/living-classical-with-tyler-kline-for-december-28-2025-january-3-2026

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🎙 micro/Maker

Episode 065: Letting Process Demand Presence (featuring Sinclaire Marie)

Sinclaire Marie reflects on atmospheric wood firing as a collaborative, communal practice: one that values patience, presence, and surrender over control, and treats uncertainty as an essential teacher in the creative process.

Episode 066: Expanding Possibility From the Inside (featuring Brett Copeland)

Brett Copeland shares how returning to his alma mater as a professor reshaped his view of teaching, mentorship, and career pathways, advocating for expanded models of creative life built through daily practice rather than fixed outcomes.

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🔜 Coming Up Soon

Coming up next on Living Classical (streaming Sunday, January 4):
It’s a program that centers on language, memory, and the bonds that shape us, from Nicolás Lell Benavides’s Canto Caló, honoring his New Mexican grandparents through a Spanish–English dialect, to music by Annie Nikunen that reflects on intimacy, distance, and the space that lingers between people over time.

Plus, new episodes of music/Maker are in the works! Stay tuned for those, coming very soon.

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Hope you have a fantastic start to 2026!