On today’s episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by composer Michael Frazier.

Michael is a Black and Latino composer whose work blends jazz, birdsong, hip-hop, and improvisation into a musical language rich in harmony, gesture, and emotional depth. His music has been performed by ensembles including Strings & Hammers, OSSIA New Music, Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings, and Birds on a Wire.

In this conversation, Michael shares how embracing his cultural identity became a central part of his artistic voice. He and Tyler discuss how jazz phrasing informs his sense of musical time, how he approaches emotional connection in his work, and how his creative confidence has grown through writing music that feels fully personal and grounded in who he is.

Michael is online at https://www.michaelfraziermusic.com/.

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On today’s episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by composer and pianist Beyza Yazgan.

Beyza is a Turkish pianist, composer, and multidisciplinary artist whose work blends her cultural roots with global influences, improvisation, and visual storytelling. Her 2024 album Human Cocoon was selected as The Guardian’s contemporary album of the month, and she continues to expand her artistic practice across multiple disciplines while based in New York City.

In this conversation, Beyza shares how improvisation opened the door to her work as a composer, how her Turkish upbringing and experiences in New York shape her creative voice, and how mindfulness informs both her music and visual art. She and Tyler also discuss learning to quiet the inner critic, trusting instinct, and how even small acts of creation can offer quiet forms of resistance.

Beyza and her work can be found online at https://www.beyzayazgan.com/

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On this episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by functional potter, educator, and Atmospheric Artist-in-Residence at Queen City Clay, Sinclaire Marie.

A visual artist turned ceramicist, Sinclaire’s practice centers atmospheric firing (wood, soda, raku), functional forms, and a tactile language of texture, intention, and use. She shares how her journey from charcoal drawing to clay opened a new way of communicating—through objects we hold every day.

In this conversation, Sinclaire talks about the information a pot carries—throwing lines, flashing, ash, weight, rim, glaze traces—and why she leaves the marks of process visible as a kind of memory. She discusses integrating cedar (a Diné practice of cleansing and balance) by rolling its pattern into clay, and how listening to fire changes what pots become. Along the way: community wood-firings, the barter/trade ethos, teaching as a welcoming space, and the ongoing discipline of showing up to the studio.

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