🍃 Loose Leaf Transmissions – Weekly Dispatch

Hey friends! Just a quick note this week to let you know about two new micro/Maker episodes now streaming.

One is with filmmaker C. Jacqueline Wood, who digs into how technology, memory, and loss shape her art. The other is with writer Vanessa Ague, who shares how her early experiences with violin and minimalism eventually led her away from performance and into a life in music criticism.

Two very different conversations, but both get at the heart of what I love about these shorter excerpts: how creative lives take shape in unexpected, deeply personal ways.

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Thanks, as always, for being here.

🎧 New on the Feed

🎙 micro/Maker

micro/Maker 033: Archiving a Life Through Media (featuring C. Jacqueline Wood)

C. Jacqueline Wood reflects on how technology shapes memory, permanence, and loss, creating art that wrestles with what remains when media fades.

micro/Maker 034: Following the Path Back to Music (featuring Vanessa Ague)

Vanessa Ague shares how an exploratory start with violin and minimalism led her away from performance and into a life in music criticism.

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🔜 Coming Up Soon

Next week on music/Maker, I’m joined by composer and artist Beyza Yazgan, whose creativity doesn’t stop with sound, but also extends into animation and visual storytelling.

Beyza is a Turkish pianist, composer, and multidisciplinary artist whose work blends her cultural roots with global influences, improvisation, and visual storytelling. In this conversation, she shares how improvisation opened the door to her work as a composer, how her Turkish upbringing and experiences in New York shape her creative voice, and how mindfulness informs both her music and visual art.

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Thanks again, for reading and listening – take care, and I’ll catch you next week!