micro/Maker by Loose Leaf Transmissions

Hannah Selin shares her plans for The Soft Moon, a new opera inspired by Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics. She and Tyler talk about translating Calvino’s playful critique of human hubris—the fantasy of a perfectly controlled world—into music and sound. It’s Hannah’s first foray into opera, complete with projections, texture, and an ever-shifting balance between the organic and the synthetic.

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Sinclaire Marie reflects on how intention—not predictability—guides her use of cedar textures in atmospheric firing, where no kiln load ever yields the same result. She describes cedar as both a physical surface and a symbolic anchor, rooted in her upbringing and its role in grounding, cleansing, and reassurance. By pressing cedar textures into vessels meant for daily use, she frames pottery as a quiet companion to ordinary rituals—meals, coffee, shared moments—carrying warmth and care into people’s homes. The conversation expands into questions of identity, permission, and vulnerability in creative work, touching on how validation through critique can unlock the courage to let personal routines, histories, and values surface in art. Rather than chasing spectacle or mass production, Sinclaire emphasizes connection: objects shaped by lived experience, meant to be held, used, and returned to again and again.

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Annika Socolofsky describes her 30s as reclaiming things shamed away in childhood—pop music, masculinity she was taught to fear, queerness she knew was different before she had the word. She processes that through music, her safest vulnerable space, inviting collaborators into pieces like Tell You/Me, which queer artists remixed into versions she loves more than the originals. Text became central: she's obsessed with its timbral properties—how vowel shapes pierce or darken ensembles—and uses it structurally, asking vibraphonists to perform sentences as rhythms that escape conventional notation. Musicologist Andrew Pettit wrote that lullabies are one of the only truly safe performance spaces for women: you can sing the unsayable to a child who doesn't understand language yet. Lullaby texts worldwide are incredibly dark—fears of death, forbidden thoughts. Socolofsky started writing feminist rager lullabies in 2017 during #MeToo, channeling anger she'd been told not to express. Taking a nurturing genre and making it powerful felt essential, and finally cathartic.

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Charly Daniels traces the moment when his intuitive, ear-first musicianship began to merge with the realization that composing could become a life’s pursuit. He describes how years of free exploration on a home sequencer eventually collided with a deeper awakening: long car rides listening to symphonies with his father, the slow shift from resistance to emotional resonance, and the shock of witnessing a living composer take a bow in the concert hall — a moment that revealed classical music as something alive, present, and possible. From there, he dove headfirst into notation software, driven less by theory than by the sense that he’d finally found the path he was meant to follow.

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Composer and cellist Daijana Wallace shares how her early experiences singing in church choir and growing up in a small Midwest town shaped her musical journey. She and host Tyler Kline discuss developing as a self-starter, discovering contemporary classical music later in her studies, and how keeping an open, ever-curious approach continues to drive her work today.

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Carlynn Crosby shares how a second-grade writing assignment sparked her lifelong tendency to follow her creative instincts—prompt or no prompt. She and Tyler talk about the joy (and occasional embarrassment) of early school writing projects, and how those experiences shaped her voice as a writer today.

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Dropped into grad school at the University of South Florida, Tyler Kline realized he’d been composing under a rock. He recounts an overwhelming first semester of unraveling old habits, absorbing new ideas from composers like Stuart Saunders Smith, and even delivering a commission that backfired—before a “poop-in-a-group” moment launched a voracious dive into contemporary music. The crash-course transformation still shapes the way he writes, learns, and pushes forward today.

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Joshua Mallard discusses how his background in contemporary classical music — particularly as a flutist — informs his approach to scoring video games. He explains how extended techniques and concert-hall aesthetics can surprise and engage game audiences, and shares why the divide between concert and game music might not be as wide as it seems.

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Caterina Schembri talks about discovering composition before she even knew how to play an instrument—a late start that came from a broader hunger for creative expression. She describes how Debussy’s piano music opened something in her, giving her a sense of color, atmosphere, and possibility that she felt compelled to understand from the inside. Those early years were a blur of theory lessons, piano practice, and first attempts at shaping harmony on her own terms. Even now, she still begins at the piano, letting harmony lead her thinking—a trace of how she first entered music by intuition, curiosity, and sheer momentum.

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Gabriel Bolaños centers his work on timbre, particularly the ambiguous zone where an oboe in its high register stops sounding like an oboe. Because this threshold is subjective—dependent on listener experience, acoustics, variables beyond control—he saturates pieces with multiple layers of timbral ambiguity so that if one element fails, others carry the effect. Collaborating with performers, he seeks sounds unusual enough to notate reliably without becoming recognizable performance practice. From there, he builds structures: harmonic progressions made from timbre, sudden interruptions instead of gradual morphing. Microtonality emerged from spectral approximations of frequencies but now lives in his intuition. In Slew, quarter-tone-flat guitars surround audiences with overtone series that cohere and separate like waves. He pushed the piece to extremes—no compromises—making it visceral enough that even unfamiliar listeners could feel its intention, like Xenakis. Ambiguity, he insists, preserves magic; recognizability kills it.

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