I hope you’re doing well on this Friday. It’s quite a busy time for me personally, as I’m in deep preparation mode ahead of spending two weeks at The Hambidge Center in rural North Georgia. I’m looking forward to time away to compose and do some other sonic explorations – in a place with no cell service, no less – but it also means the next couple of newsletters might be a bit more streamlined.

Not to worry, though: the offerings themselves won't be streamlined. New episodes across the board this week, next week, and beyond – all the details are below.

Now streaming: Living Classical Episode 14 for March 29 - April 4, 2026

On this edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline: Likoo is a traditional song form from Iran's Baluchistan province, performed on bowed lute or paired flutes. It’s music about grief and longing for a loved one. Aftab Darvishi's Likoo draws on that essence, reflecting a deep longing for those lost since the Women, Life, Freedom movement began in Iran in September 2022. The piece explores loss in its various dimensions: mothers, lovers, homeland.

Then: After reading Haruki Murakami's interviews with survivors of the 1995 Tokyo sarin attacks, Bára Gísladóttir compressed ninety minutes into ten. VAPE structures the orchestra into five groups, each tracing one attack timeline – sharp jabs, then gradual vaporization and suffocation – exploring how fear and anxiety never abate, and how effects spread and disperse.

Music by Eydís Evensen, Lilith Guegamian, Eleanor Alberga, Anna Weesner, Jessie Montgomery, Eleanore Oppenheim, Angela Elizabeth Slater, Hannah Selin, Pauchi Sasaki, Anahita Abbasi, and Ha-Yang Kim.

View the playlist & listen: https://www.looseleaftransmissions.com/post/living-classical-with-tyler-kline-for-march-29-april-4-2026

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Episode 094: Eccentricity as a Form of Connection (featuring Graeme Sheilds)

Graeme Shields reflects on humor, eccentricity, and playfulness in music – from kazoo-playing cellists to drumming on the organ with a felt-wrapped board – seeing laughter as another way to bring listeners closer to the work.

Episode 095: Blending Hobbies into Creative Work (featuring Daijana Wallace)

Daijana Wallace shares how her hobbies fuel her creative life, from pairing albums with cooking to customizing mechanical keyboards: a deep dive that has even streamlined her composing and engraving process, blending practical function with sonic satisfaction.

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On a new music/Maker with Tyler Kline: a conversation with composer Dai Fujikura.

In this conversation, Dai and Tyler trace a journey that begins with a boy in Osaka secretly composing while his mother was out of the house, and winds through a scholarship to a British boarding school at fifteen, years of hustling musicians at Trinity College of Music into playing his work for the price of a pint, and a friendship with Ryuichi Sakamoto that lasted until Sakamoto's death.

They also get into how a piece reveals itself — or sometimes stubbornly refuses to — the DIY spirit behind Minabel Records, what traditional Japanese instruments mean to someone who first encountered them not in Japan but at Darmstadt, and why a “stiff neck” at the end of a long day" at the desk doesn't mean you wrote anything good.

It’s an excellent, wide-ranging conversation streaming from Thursday, April 9.

And, coming up on Living Classical (streaming from Sunday, April 5): music shaped by light, shadow, and landscape.

Daniél Bjarnason's A Fragile Hope is a tribute to Jóhann Jóhannsson and the period when Iceland's distinct musical aesthetic was emerging, culminating in a direct melodic reference to Jóhannsson's breakthrough work Englabörn. Then, Bill Ryan's Music for a Beautiful Place – an 82-minute ambient journey inspired by a decade of outdoor performances across the United States with the GVSU New Music Ensemble – invites listeners to slow down and reflect through a slowly shifting landscape of sound.

Also featuring works by Adam Roberts, Jennifer Jolley, Jeff Scott, Charlie Wall-Andrews, Paul Millette, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Mendel Lee, and Molly Joyce.

Listen on Mixcloud or at livingclassicalradio.com.

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