micro/Maker by Loose Leaf Transmissions

Sinclaire Marie describes a gradual but decisive shift from charcoal drawing into ceramics, driven less by strategy than by a growing sense that her earlier work no longer felt honest. She traces her deepening commitment through atmospheric firing—raku, wood, soda—and the formative role of access, noting how losing university kilns after graduation forced her into electric work while she built a parallel career in arts administration. Working at a small nonprofit meant teaching, curating, and sustaining community programs, often at the expense of her own studio practice, even as she continued making pots at home and discovered the power of sharing clay through outreach work like teaching in a local jail. That tension—between supporting art and making it—eventually clarified what was missing, leading her back to wood firing, additional study, and ultimately a residency at Queen City Clay. What emerges is a portrait of commitment shaped through interruption, persistence, and a slow recognition that without clay, something essential was absent.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.Support Loose Leaf Transmissions on Patreon at patreon.com/LooseLeafTransmissions.Follow us on Instagram: @loose.leaf.transmissionsmicro/Maker is a production of Loose Leaf Transmissions: Made for All Ears.

For C. Jacqueline Wood, experimental film isn’t about chasing a single style—it’s about breaking rules. In this conversation, she recalls the appeal of video art in undergrad: working solo, translating an idea directly from her head to the screen, and pushing film beyond the walls of the movie theater. From projecting moving images outdoors to exploring sound, space, and site-specificity, Jacqueline describes experimental film as an open-ended practice: a series of choices that can subvert any element of cinema, from editing to exhibition.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.Support Loose Leaf Transmissions on Patreon at patreon.com/LooseLeafTransmissions.Follow us on Instagram: @loose.leaf.transmissionsmicro/Maker is a production of Loose Leaf Transmissions: Made for All Ears.

James May and Tyler talk candidly about the realities of balancing creative work with a full-time job. James shares how working in tech has reshaped his relationship to composing, how burnout forced him to redefine success, and why security can actually make space for deeper creativity. Together, they reflect on what it means to build a sustainable life as an artist—one rooted not in constant output, but in fulfillment.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.Support Loose Leaf Transmissions on Patreon at patreon.com/LooseLeafTransmissions.Follow us on Instagram: @loose.leaf.transmissionsmicro/Maker is a production of Loose Leaf Transmissions: Made for All Ears.

Composer Mahdis Golzar Kashani shares the moment that led her to choose composition as her life's path. In this excerpt, she recounts a political protest in Tehran that unexpectedly changed her trajectory as a musician. After narrowly avoiding serious injury following a government crackdown, Kashani realized that composition offered a way to stay connected to music regardless of physical limitations — a decision that continues to shape her artistic life today.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.Support Loose Leaf Transmissions on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/LooseLeafTransmissions. Follow us on social media @loose.leaf.transmissions.micro/Maker is a production of Loose Leaf Transmissions: Made for All Ears.

Charly Daniels reflects on the formative artistic moments that shaped his creative sensibility long before he formally studied music — vivid memories of a childhood theater production, early encounters with abstract expressionism, and the emotional power those images held. He describes how his musical life began not with notation but with a sequencer in his family’s home studio, where hours of improvising and layering sound became his first language as a composer. This early mix of intuition, color, texture, and play became the foundation for the way he understands and approaches music today.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.Support Loose Leaf Transmissions on Patreon at patreon.com/LooseLeafTransmissions.Follow us on Instagram: @loose.leaf.transmissionsmicro/Maker is a production of Loose Leaf Transmissions: Made for All Ears.

Staves, stems, and page turns carry more than notes. Marc Mellits explains how a copyist’s eye shapes his notation—prioritizing clarity, flexible tempos, and performer ownership—so rehearsal time goes to music, not decoding. He and Tyler Kline dig into the psychology of reading (iPad vs. paper), why a single word can guide interpretation, and how to write for players you’ll never meet.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.Support Loose Leaf Transmissions on Patreon at patreon.com/LooseLeafTransmissions.Follow us on Instagram: @loose.leaf.transmissionsmicro/Maker is a production of Loose Leaf Transmissions: Made for All Ears.

Brett Copeland traces his path into electronic and electroacoustic music through artists who treated the tuba as a flexible, expressive engine rather than a fixed orchestral voice. Influenced early on by Nat McIntosh and the genre-blurring work of Youngblood Brass Band, he became fascinated by acoustic sound manipulation—multiphonics, vocal effects, and timbral shape-shifting—as a foundation for later electronic exploration. That curiosity deepened through performers like Brian Wolf, whose use of effects, drum machines, and live processing opened the door to Brett’s own experiments with signal chains, distortion, and degradation using tools like Ableton Live and Max/MSP. What began as playful experimentation eventually became a philosophical stance: honoring virtuosity while deliberately breaking sound apart, embracing grit, noise, and punk-rooted disruption as a way to expand what the tuba—and composition itself—can be.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts.Support Loose Leaf Transmissions on Patreon.Follow us on Instagram: @loose.leaf.transmissionsmicro/Maker is a production of Loose Leaf Transmissions: Made for All Ears.

Carlynn Crosby reflects on the winding, often precarious path that many writers face after college. She shares how freelancing, food writing, and side gigs shaped her post-grad years—and why, for her and many others, writing has remained a passion even when it couldn’t be the primary paycheck.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.Support Loose Leaf Transmissions on Patreon at patreon.com/LooseLeafTransmissions.Follow us on social media @loose.leaf.transmissions.micro/Maker is a production of Loose Leaf Transmissions: Made for All Ears.