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 discourse, death/mortality, and reproductive rights.

Hitchen graduated with an MM in Composition and Theory from Penn State University, where they studied with Baljinder Singh Sekhon, II and Sarah Genevieve Burghart Rice. During their time at Penn State, he served as Vice President for Living Music, a student organization dedicated to the performance and promotion of music by living composers. He was also a graduate facilitator of the discussion group Beyond the Binary at the Penn State’s Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.

Since Han’s identity is so intrinsic to his creative expression, a significant chunk of this conversation is focused on that. Han also talks about those taboo topics that he explores in his music, as well as the ways he champions marginalized folks within and outside of his music.

Han and his music can be found online at https://hanhitchen.com/.

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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 to create intersectional music.

She was awarded the Global Women in Music Award from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights & Donne in Musica Adkins Chiti Foundation. Shruthi has been an artist-in-residence at Tusen Takk Foundation, Britten Pears Arts, and the Anderson Center. As a soprano and Carnatic vocalist, Shruthi has performed and recorded in numerous traditional and experimental settings. She was a Marshall Scholar in the UK, where she pursued postgraduate studies in composition and ethnomusicology. A graduate of Princeton University, Shruthi lives in Minnesota and serves on the board of new music chamber ensemble Zeitgeist.

In this conversation, Tyler takes a deep dive into Shruthi’s intercultural identity and work, and a significant part of this discussion is Shruthi sharing her journey as a musician with roots in Carnatic music and how that has melded with her work as a Western classical composer over time.

She and Tyler also talk a bit about gatekeeping issues in the contemporary music field, how composers might consider placing more emphasis on process rather than product, and what experimentation means to her in her work.

You can learn more about Shruthi and listen to her music at https://www.shruthirajasekar.com.

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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 author Ben Loory is set to release this fall. Nathan is currently on the music faculty at Central Piedmont Community College, and is the managing director for the Next Generation Trumpet Competition. When he’s not composing, he enjoys thinking deeply about coffee, playing disc golf, and spending time with his wife and three cats.

In this conversation, Nathan discusses the thread from his childhood making music in church and how that expanded into the music he makes today; all the ways he cultivates community as both a composer and a trumpet player; and his close collaborations with the author Ben Loory.

Nathan is online at nathanhudsonmusic.com.

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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 specializations.

In this conversation, Emily discusses her Singaporean roots, including how essentially all students had to produce a composition portfolio as part of their education. She also talks about how collaboration brings out the best in her work, and Emily and Tyler have an extended discussion towards the end geeking out about food and drawing all kinds of connections between food and music.

Emily is online at emilykoh.net.

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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.

Collaborative works of his have been release by Carrier Records, Bright Shiny Things, Gold Bolus Records, and Records to Burn. Notable performances include Bang on a Can’s 2022 Long Play Festival at Public Records, Loud Weekend at MassMOCA, Momentous Festival at The Momentary.

In this conversation, Phong shares what led him to dive into electronic music in the first place and what that artistic transformation was like; how he views ocmposition as a form of journaling - and even therapy; and why creating emotional space in his creative work is so important.

Phong can be found online at phongmusic.com.

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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 part of.

Hannah has been commissioned by ensembles such as the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble. She was a fellow for the Gabriela Lena Frank Academy of Music, participated in the Sō Percussion Summer Institute, and the Unheard of Ensemble Collaborative Composition Initiative. She has participated in reading sessions with ensembles such as Roomful of Teeth.

Hannah is endorsed by Balaguer Guitars, and she recently toured with Silent Planet as the bassist and clean vocalist in Spirit Breaker. She holds her Bachelor of Music in Composition from Michigan State University and her Master of Music in Composition from the University of Michigan.

In this conversation, Hannah shares the unique threads that came together for her when it was time to major in music composition; how she balances her work as a performer with being a composer - and how she does it across genre and style - and how she sees simply thinking about music as a valid part of the composition process.

Hannah is online at https://hannahboissonneault.com/.

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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-composition, auditory perception, linguistics, graphic notation, improvisation, and modular synthesizers.

Gabriel is currently an Assistant Professor of Music Composition at Arizona State University, where he teaches courses in composition, analysis, music technology, and acoustics, and co-directs the PRISMS contemporary music festival. He received a BA in music from Columbia University and a PhD in Composition and Theory from UC Davis.

In this conversation Tyler and Gabriel cover a lot of ground, and get into the weeds a bit with some pretty academic topics… but first, Gabriel discusses how the guitar was the entry point into music; his Nicaraguan roots, and how that does - and, maybe more importantly, does not - influence his music; how he leverages computer-based tools to assist him in his compositional practices; and lots, lots more.

Gabriel and his music can be found online at https://gabrielbolanos.com/.

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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, formal, and expressive guiding reference in her musical writing process.

Her music has been described by the Boston Globe as an exhibition of "artful vocal writing [that] ranges from percussive whispers to glinting, pure-voiced lines that [...] blended elegantly into the roiling cauldron of strings.” Ania is the 2024 Composer-in-Residence at the Chelsea Music Festival, and has received recognition and fellowships from the American Opera Project, ASCAP, Copland House, Tanglewood, the Boston New Music Initiative, and the I-Park Foundation.

In this conversation, Ania shares what it was like growing up with a mom who is also a composer; how her multicultural background and interest in languages manifests in her music; the role of time as a philosophy in her practice; and so much more.

You can find Ania online at https://ania.vu.

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