music/Maker with Tyler Kline

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler continues his conversation with film composer Austin Hammonds. In Part 2 of this conversation, Austin shares his thoughts on craft versus artistry and discusses the role of the Jurassic Park film score along his artistic journey. Listen to Part 1 here. Find out more about Austin on his website, https://www.austinhammonds.com/ . . . . music...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by Austin Hammonds. With a seamless fusion of neo-classical orchestral mastery and contemporary production flair, composer Austin Hammonds delivers a contemporary twist on a timeless sound. Drawing from a deep well of musical influences spanning centuries, Hammonds intricately bridges colors and textures the past and the present,...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by Mahdis Golzar Kashani. Born in Tehran in 1984, Mahdis Golzar Kashani is an internationally acclaimed Iranian composer and pianist whose work has earned her recognition across prestigious stages and institutions worldwide. She began studying piano at the age of six under the guidance of renowned musician Javad Maroufi and Art a...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by Chris Opperman. Dr. Chris Opperman wields a special array of expertise. He is a composer of wildly original music, a top orchestrator and arranger, a dedicated and visionary educator, and a trusted advisor for an incredible cross-section of the music industry. Since starting his Purple Cow Records label in 1998, Dr. Opperman h...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by Hannah Selin. Composer, violist and vocalist Hannah Selin works with acoustic instruments, voices, electronics and field recordings to create striking and vibrant sound-worlds. She grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania helping her parents caretake a cemetery and listening to her mother write songs on scordatura guitar. Her musi...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by Carlynn Crosby. Carlynn Crosby is a writer and editor based in Gainesville, Florida, where her interests range from archival research on Florida food and culture to experimental forms of fiction and memoir. She currently works in book publishing and is pursuing a PhD in literature. She has been described as "decent." Carlynn i...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by Roger Zare. Roger Zare has been praised for his “enviable grasp of orchestration” by the New York Times and for writing music with “formal clarity and an alluringly mercurial surface.” He was born in Sarasota, FL, and has written for a wide variety of ensembles, from solo instruments to full orchestra.  Often inspired by...

A transcription of this conversation can be found at https://www.looseleaftransmissions.com/post/music-maker-with-tyler-kline-episode-21 // On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by Mat Campbell. A native of the Rio Grande Valley in Deep South Texas, Mathew “Mat” Aaron Campbell graduated with a BM-Education from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and received H...

On this episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by Han Hitchen. Award-winning composer Han Hitchen writes for a wide range of genres, spanning across various acoustic and electroacoustic settings. His music is informed by his experiences as a queer person, and draws inspiration from socially taboo topics that he hopes to bring attention to, such as menstruation cycles, family dis...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by Shruthi Rajasekar. Named by The Guardian as a composer "who will enrich your life", Shruthi Rajasekar is an Indian-American musician exploring identity, community, and joy. A 2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Shruthi draws from her unique dual background in the Carnatic (South Indian classical) and Western classical traditions t...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by Nathan Hudson. Nathan Hudson is a composer, educator, performer and curator living in Charlotte, NC. His music has been called “…simple, yet cinematic” and “Tonal-lyrical-primal-old/new-synthetic and partakes of a rhapsodical quality in new ways…”.  His debut album, ‘music for falling and flying’, in collaboration with au...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by Emily Koh. Emily Koh is a Singaporean composer-bassist based in Atlanta, Georgia whose music reimagines everyday experiences by sonically expounding tiny oft-forgotten details, and explores binary states such as extremities/boundaries and activity/stagnation. She especially enjoys collaborating with creatives of other speciali...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by Phong Tran. Phong Tran is a Brooklyn-based composer and visual artist primarily working in digital and electronic mediums. His work revolves around emotional experience in digital and nonphysical spaces. Phong’s solo work has been released through New Amsterdam Records, people | places | records, and slashsound.  Collabor...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by composer-performer Hannah Boissonneault. Hannah Jane Boissonneault is a composer-performer and touring musician based in Austin, Texas. Through her work as a composer, bassist and vocalist of her band Blank Slate and her multi-genre project Feels Like Honey, Hannah strives to create music that entwines the communities she is a...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by composer Gabriel Bolaños. Gabriel José Bolaños Chamorro is a Nicaraguan/American composer of solo, chamber, orchestral and electroacoustic music. He frequently collaborates closely with performers, and enjoys writing music that explores unusual techniques, structures, and timbres. He is interested in computer-assisted-composit...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by composer Ania Vu. Polish of Vietnamese descent composer and pianist, Ania Vu (née Vũ Đặng Minh Anh) writes music that explores the interplay between the sound properties of the words and their meanings, musical energy related to form, and varied notions of time. She also enjoys crafting her own text that serves as a sonic, for...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by Daijana Wallace.  Daijana Wallace is a composer and educator based in Wichita, KS. Her music is an outward reflection of her own introspection, drawing inspiration from any and every thought that crosses her mind from the mundane aspects of daily life to specific memories about a percussive upstairs neighbor.  Daijan...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by James May. James May is a composer, improviser, teacher, photographer, and writer. His work explores unfurling, fragile spaces through notated scores, improvisation environments, live electronics, field recordings, extended vocal technique, and text. He’s especially interested in combining techniques to encourage the explorati...

Today on music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler meets up with hair stylist Anna Huffka on location at her hair studio, [the iki movement]. Anna Huffka is the owner and operator of [the iki movement], an all-inclusive hair studio based in Lexington, KY where they’ll pamper you in just about any way you can imagine, offering everything from hair sculpting - yes, sculpting, not cutting - to hair colori...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by composer Joshua Mallard.  Joshua Mallard is an award-winning composer currently residing in Austin, Texas. Joshua's eclectic body of work seeks to reshape musical idioms and embrace experimentation. His work consists of music for game, film, and classical music. He has worked with companies and studios such as Blipsounds,...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by Sean Hamilton. Sean Hamilton is a percussionist, composer, improviser, and audio engineer whose creative practice focuses on hybrids of the improvised and the composed. His interests are rooted in avant-garde and experimental music, free improvisation, electronic and electroacoustic music, noise, punk and metal, and sound art....

On today’s episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , you’re in for a real treat - and you’re in for something a little different - because today Tyler is joined by writer and experimental music critic Vanessa Ague. Vanessa Ague is a Brooklyn-based violinist and arts journalist who primarily writes about experimental, contemporary classical, and improvised music. She’s written for The Wire, Bandcam...

Today on music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by composer and tubist Brett Copeland. Dr. Brett Copeland is a tuba player, educator, composer, and music technologist who holds the position of Associate Adjunct Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of Northern Iowa where he teaches Applied Lessons, Low Brass Techniques, directs the UNITUBA ensemble, and teaches a course on Elec...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by composer Andrew Noseworthy. Andrew Noseworthy is a multidisciplinary artist whose music reflects upon the acceptance/rejection of “locality” while drawing from lived experiences of isolation within his hometown of Labrador West and the tight-knit arts community of St John's (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada), along with the e...

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by composer Shelley Washington. Shelley Washington has emerged as an important and powerful voice of her generation. Her music has been presented by leading ensembles including the Long Beach Opera company, Boston Lyric Opera company, the Kansas City Symphony, and in NPR’s Dolly Parton’s America podcast and Vox Media’s Explained...