Greetings, folks – I’ve got a new slate of offerings for your this week.

Once again, I’m keeping things short, sweet, and to the point in this week’s dispatch. I just returned home from a week in Central Pennsylvania at the Bischoff Inn Micro-Residency, and yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking with composition students at Penn State about the work I do through Loose Leaf Transmissions. My talk included extensive thoughts on curation and advocacy, and why I hope they consider doing what they can to advocate for contemporary music, too (not necessarily through radio, but via their own channels).

Speaking of which, read on about what I’ve got for you this week, including a new Living Classical and three new micro/Maker episodes. Cheers!

Now streaming: Living Classical Episode 12 for March 15-21, 2026

On this edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline: We perceive inner light through eyes – contrasts of color influenced by emotion, memory, weather, the surrounding world. Ileana Pérez Velázquez's Lights of lives flowing from your eyes traces how light is drawn into the body and shines back out. It's music that moves between reflection and perception, shaped by a line from Matthew's gospel.

Then: Repetition as structure and accumulation as gesture form the foundation of Zeynep Toraman's a lifetime of annotations, a work that reimagines nineteenth-century orchestral repertoire through the lens of a Mahlerian slow movement. The piece folds fractal explorations of melodic lines in on themselves – a long melody, a lament, a moment in the process of disappearing.

Music by Ileana Pérez Velázquez, Zeynep Toraman, Grace-Evangeline Mason, Fumiko Miyachi, Dobrinka Tabakova, Caterina Schembri, Allison Loggins-Hull, Yu-Hui Chang, Angélica Negrón, and Jimena Maldonado.

View the playlist & listen: https://www.looseleaftransmissions.com/post/living-classical-with-tyler-kline-for-march-15-21-2026

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Episode 088: Processing Identity Through Sound (featuring Austin Hammonds)

Austin Hammonds explores rhythm, identity, and responsibility as ongoing questions rather than fixed pillars, discussing the emotional weight music can carry and what it means to treat creative work and people with care and integrity.

Episode 089: Taking Big Swings for Others (featuring Shelley Washington)

Shelley Washington shares her philosophy of advocacy, reaching out, and creating space for new voices in contemporary music – a responsibility she feels after receiving support throughout her own creative journey.

Episode 090: Listening to the Clouds (featuring Yue Song)

Yue Song reflects on how moving from Beijing to Ireland changed her perception of color, light, and sound – and how Ireland's shifting weather opened her ears to texture, imagery, and emotion in a new way.

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Next week on a new music/Maker with Tyler Kline, it’s a conversation with composer Shuying Li.

Shuying Li talks about her unlikely path from a medical family in China to composition, the culture shock of being told she could "write whatever she wanted," and the long process of unlearning the need to impress. She and Tyler discuss how founding the Four Corners Ensemble reshaped her understanding of collaboration, her recent push to fold jazz, blues, minimalism, and EDM into her concert music, and her belief that a finished score is only about half the piece – the rest belonging equally to performers and audiences.

Listen wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com, beginning on Thursday, March 26!

And on a new Living Classical with Tyler Kline: Sophia Jani's Woodwind Quintet No. 1: Music as Mirror distributes the same musical elements equally across all five instruments, built as a pulsating process that changes almost unnoticeably, slowly arriving somewhere completely different from where it began.

Then Unsuk, Chin's double concerto for piano, percussion, and ensemble fuses soloists and ensemble into a single new sonorous body – the prepared piano muted and metallic, the nineteen-piece ensemble acting as a shadow of the soloists. Also featuring music by Chihchun Chi-Sun Lee, Reena Esmail, Bosba Panh, Adeliia Faizullina, Judy A. Rose, Johanny Navarro, Clarice Jensen, Tessa Brinckman, Ania Vu, and Tania León.

Listen beginning on Sunday, March 22 on Mixcloud or at livingclassicalradio.com.

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