Building New Music from the Ground Up with Mendel Lee LISTEN Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Amazon Music | Acast | Deezer On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by composer Mendel Lee. New Orleans-based composer, artistic entrepreneur, VCCA Fellow, and NPN Take Notice Fund grantee, Mendel Lee has built a creative practice that moves fluidly between writing music and building the infrastructure to support it. Since leaving his long tenure as

Letting the Music Find Its Own Way with Dai Fujikura Photo credit: Edgard Yamaguchi LISTEN Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Amazon Music | Acast | Deezer On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by composer Dai Fujikura . Born in Osaka and based in London since moving to the UK at fifteen, Dai Fujikura is one of the most prolific and wide-ranging composers working today. Winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale, the Ivor Novello and

Unlearning Restriction and Expanding into Creative Freedom with Shuying Li Photo credit: Lauren “Elle Jaye” Jenkins LISTEN Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Amazon Music | Acast | Deezer On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by composer Shuying Li . Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as "vivid, dramatic" and described by The Seattle Times as "a real talent," Shuying Li writes bold, emotionally charged music that blends rich colors wit

Composing from Intuition, Image, and Expanded Possibility with Jessica Ackerley LISTEN Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Amazon Music | Acast | Deezer On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by guitarist and composer Jessica Ackerley. Described by Wire Magazine as "one of the most exciting guitarists to have emerged from the free music scene in recent years," Jessica Ackerley has built a distinctive voice across 25 releases as a bandleade

Building Community and Finding Balance in Music with Nicky Sohn LISTEN Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Amazon Music | Acast | Deezer On today’s episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline , Tyler is joined by composer Nicky Sohn . Nicky's music is jazz-inflected and rhythmically driven, with vivid, colorful orchestration that tends to win over a room. Her work spans orchestral, chamber, ballet, and vocal repertoire, and has been performed by the St. Louis Symphony, the