Shelley Washington reflects on the responsibility she feels to advocate for others after receiving support throughout her own creative journey. She shares her philosophy of reaching out, encouraging risk-taking, and creating space for new voices in contemporary music.

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Austin Hammonds reflects on the role of rhythm, identity, and responsibility in his work — not as fixed pillars, but as ongoing questions. He and Tyler talk about the emotional weight music can carry, why intention matters, and what it means to treat creative work (and the people around you) with care and integrity.

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Baljinder Sekhon talks about early listening experiences and how they shape our perception of musical “truth.” He shares how growing up with Michael Jackson and Queen eventually gave way to a fascination with Shostakovich and a thirst for the unfamiliar. This excerpt explores the power of surprise, the risk of rigid taste, and how open-minded listening can be its own creative act.

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C. Jacqueline Wood didn’t set out to become a filmmaker. Growing up, her focus was on sports, shaped by a family rooted in professional football. But a chance stop at the Ann Arbor Film Festival during her freshman year at the University of Michigan changed everything. What began as an internship in hospitality turned into a doorway to experimental film, where small, personal projects could carry enormous meaning. From her first in-camera edit to realizing filmmaking was about creating a feeling, Jacqueline describes how she found her path in art through curiosity, questions, and the power of choices.

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Andrew Noseworthy traces his musical awakening not through the classical canon, but through a convergence of Internet-driven discovery, progressive rock, and contemporary composition encountered almost simultaneously. As a teenager, Bartók, Stravinsky, and George Crumb arrived not as historical figures, but as living forces refracted through bands like King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer—music that felt continuous rather than divided by genre or era. Growing up in extreme isolation meant absorbing ideas from afar, building an identity shaped as much by imagined scenes as by physical places. Over time, this evolved into what Andrew describes as an acceptance and rejection of locality: deeply influenced by the places he’s lived—Labrador City, St. John’s, New York, Toronto—yet equally defined by post-regional networks sustained through the internet. His work reflects a life formed both by place and in resistance to it, navigating belonging, distance, and continuity in a musical world no longer bound to geography.

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Phong Tran recounts the surreal experience of creating a graphic score for the A24 film Everything Everywhere All at Once. Alongside Darian Donovan Thomas, he created a piece not meant for the stage, but for the individual performer — crafting an intimate emotional space through simple musical gestures and imaginative prompts.

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Brett Copeland dismantles the narrow expectations around “tuba and electronics,” laying out a clear hierarchy that moves from fixed-media “karaoke” works, to flexible broken-tape structures, and finally to fully integrated systems involving live processing, multi-channel sound, and video. For him, electronics aren’t an accompaniment but an extension of performance—something that must breathe, respond, and place real agency in the performer’s hands. That philosophy carries directly into his composing, where he’s actively working to escape what he sees as a decade of writing music that simply “sounds like a tuba piece.” Influenced by mentors and peers who pushed back against instrumental habits, Brett now approaches each new work as a stylistic challenge—asking what it would mean for a low-brass ensemble to think symphonically, or for electroacoustic music to function as art rather than a technical checklist. The conversation ultimately widens into a critique of contemporary low-brass culture itself: a commissioning-rich ecosystem that too often prizes correctness over conviction. For Brett, the goal isn’t just to add to the repertoire—it’s to help write the next piece that actually matters.

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A nine-hour car ride with Steve Reich rewired Marc Mellits’s plan: skip the safe teaching job, move to New York, and start an ensemble. After years of mailing tapes to Bang on a Can with no reply, a surprise call from Michael Gordon led to a commission and Five Machines—a piece the All-Stars toured widely. Those performances sparked more invitations (Kronos among them) and a lesson Mellits passes on: rejection isn’t always the last word when performers champion the music.

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