This week on micro/Maker: Navigating Music as a Chameleon

And, thoughts on practicing empathy in an increasingly disconnected world.

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Tyler Kline
June 06, 2025

🍃 Loose Leaf Transmissions – Weekly Dispatch

As I keep building Loose Leaf Transmissions, I’m getting the feeling this is headed somewhere really good, especially with micro/Maker. In some ways, it’s starting to feel like it runs itself.

Lately, I’ve been taping some amazing new interviews and producing upcoming episodes of music/Maker. And, as for micro/Maker, I’ve been producing those episodes in batches and even scheduled some releases as far away as 2027.

Building a system like this feels really good, and honestly, it feels like a small but meaningful service in a world that’s often noisy and distracting. I hope that as we keep moving forward, you find a connection in these conversations and that they offer a little space to breathe each week.

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micro/Maker 007: Navigating Music as a Chameleon (featuring Joshua Mallard)

Joshua Mallard reflects on how being a creative “chameleon” — open to fields like game, film, and concert music — has helped him build freedom and flexibility as a composer.

micro/Maker 008: Practicing Empathy in a Disconnected World (featuring Carlynn Crosby

Carlynn Crosby shares why empathy, cultural awareness, and writing with care are central to her practice — especially in a world where those values feel increasingly fragile.

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🔜 Coming Up Soon

Next week on micro/Maker, both new episodes explore how personal experience and imagination shape the creative process.

Daijana Wallace reflects on the complicated realities of increased visibility following 2020, and how questions of identity, recognition, and artistic worth led her to a stronger sense of artistic confidence. And, Mahdis Golzar Kashani shares how personal memories, visual imagery, and narrative depth fuel her music, describing her process as almost like scoring an imagined film in her mind.

Plus, a new episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline welcomes the first filmmaker to the podcast, C. Jacqueline Wood.

This episode covers a wide range of compelling topics, from the role of light and duration in Jacqueline’s work to how her latest film became a meditation on unfinished projects, infertility, and creative loss. She and Tyler also reflect on navigating the tension between analog and digital media, processing personal experience through film, and finding creative freedom outside of traditional systems.

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