Jeffrey Anthony
@musefoundry.bsky.social
Founder of Muse Foundry, developing the Certificate of Embodied Production (CEP), a framework that verifies human, ungridified music. Former Pandora Music Analyst
https://www.musefoundry.studio/ | https://medium.com/@WeWillNotBeFlattened
https://www.musefoundry.studio/ | https://medium.com/@WeWillNotBeFlattened
From a piece I published on Medium about the stakes of generative AI music:
November 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
From a piece I published on Medium about the stakes of generative AI music:
Just started reading Leif Weatherby’s Language Machines. The opening thesis reads to me like Owen Barfield’s life’s work - language as poetic first, becoming functional only later in so-called ‘advanced’ cultures.
October 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Just started reading Leif Weatherby’s Language Machines. The opening thesis reads to me like Owen Barfield’s life’s work - language as poetic first, becoming functional only later in so-called ‘advanced’ cultures.
I do appreciate my son's honesty:
October 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I do appreciate my son's honesty:
The perversity of destroying actual human capacity in service of its simulation.
October 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The perversity of destroying actual human capacity in service of its simulation.
This chart shows the normalized tempo deviation from the mean for Fleetwood Mac’s 'Dreams' (orange) and Taylor Swift’s 'Opalite' (green).
Any guess which one was recorded and edited in Pro Tools?
Any guess which one was recorded and edited in Pro Tools?
October 17, 2025 at 3:43 AM
This chart shows the normalized tempo deviation from the mean for Fleetwood Mac’s 'Dreams' (orange) and Taylor Swift’s 'Opalite' (green).
Any guess which one was recorded and edited in Pro Tools?
Any guess which one was recorded and edited in Pro Tools?
Writing a piece on the griddification of modern music and how it destroys the embodied production of feelings. I ran a tempo analysis on the first track of the new Taylor Swift record and compared it to The Police’s first hit, Roxanne.
The difference is absolutely striking.
The difference is absolutely striking.
October 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Writing a piece on the griddification of modern music and how it destroys the embodied production of feelings. I ran a tempo analysis on the first track of the new Taylor Swift record and compared it to The Police’s first hit, Roxanne.
The difference is absolutely striking.
The difference is absolutely striking.
This embryo looking lump came out of an egg this morning.
October 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This embryo looking lump came out of an egg this morning.
Juliana Snapper talks about the opera she put on 'The Opera Listens To You' in which audience members prompt her and the other performers. A 10 year old girl came up to the microphone:
First, I love opera; second, I lost my sight; and, three, I am afraid of the dark.
First, I love opera; second, I lost my sight; and, three, I am afraid of the dark.
September 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Juliana Snapper talks about the opera she put on 'The Opera Listens To You' in which audience members prompt her and the other performers. A 10 year old girl came up to the microphone:
First, I love opera; second, I lost my sight; and, three, I am afraid of the dark.
First, I love opera; second, I lost my sight; and, three, I am afraid of the dark.
This 1944 Susanne K Langer article in Fortune Magazine has an amazing cover
September 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This 1944 Susanne K Langer article in Fortune Magazine has an amazing cover
What is up with 'Invalid Handle' warning on your post?
September 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
What is up with 'Invalid Handle' warning on your post?
"Anyone wishing to protect themselves from uncontrolled re-burdening movements, from neo-heroism, neo-frugality and a politics of new harshness, should soon begin thinking about how to develop democracy-compatible concepts of burdening." Peter Sloterdijk 'In the World Interior of Capital' 2005
September 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"Anyone wishing to protect themselves from uncontrolled re-burdening movements, from neo-heroism, neo-frugality and a politics of new harshness, should soon begin thinking about how to develop democracy-compatible concepts of burdening." Peter Sloterdijk 'In the World Interior of Capital' 2005
Mortgage as Metaphysical Orb
The low-rate mortgage becomes the “orb” that orders life.
Structuring our choices, compressing autonomy & swapping relationality for delta. The house itself is no longer a home in the existential sense but a hollow shell that secures the reproduction of capital flows.
The low-rate mortgage becomes the “orb” that orders life.
Structuring our choices, compressing autonomy & swapping relationality for delta. The house itself is no longer a home in the existential sense but a hollow shell that secures the reproduction of capital flows.
September 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Mortgage as Metaphysical Orb
The low-rate mortgage becomes the “orb” that orders life.
Structuring our choices, compressing autonomy & swapping relationality for delta. The house itself is no longer a home in the existential sense but a hollow shell that secures the reproduction of capital flows.
The low-rate mortgage becomes the “orb” that orders life.
Structuring our choices, compressing autonomy & swapping relationality for delta. The house itself is no longer a home in the existential sense but a hollow shell that secures the reproduction of capital flows.
Woke up this morning and opened the blinds to a Cooper’s Hawk tearing into a smaller bird for breakfast.
September 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Woke up this morning and opened the blinds to a Cooper’s Hawk tearing into a smaller bird for breakfast.
A response I posted to Jigar Shah calling for more of the same technocratic BS that will in fact not get us to the point we all want.
If you want the green energy transition, it will not be found in science; it will be found in the symbolic forms that reveal what is possible.
If you want the green energy transition, it will not be found in science; it will be found in the symbolic forms that reveal what is possible.
August 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
A response I posted to Jigar Shah calling for more of the same technocratic BS that will in fact not get us to the point we all want.
If you want the green energy transition, it will not be found in science; it will be found in the symbolic forms that reveal what is possible.
If you want the green energy transition, it will not be found in science; it will be found in the symbolic forms that reveal what is possible.
Snell points out that the concept of 'wonder' was not destroyed by the 'middle ages' it was the Stoics who denied epistemic validity to wonder
This analysis is legible in the current resurgence of Stoicism in our current time. Neoliberalism seen as necessary, wonder is incoherent in such paradigm
This analysis is legible in the current resurgence of Stoicism in our current time. Neoliberalism seen as necessary, wonder is incoherent in such paradigm
August 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Snell points out that the concept of 'wonder' was not destroyed by the 'middle ages' it was the Stoics who denied epistemic validity to wonder
This analysis is legible in the current resurgence of Stoicism in our current time. Neoliberalism seen as necessary, wonder is incoherent in such paradigm
This analysis is legible in the current resurgence of Stoicism in our current time. Neoliberalism seen as necessary, wonder is incoherent in such paradigm
After two 115° days in Tucson, I was washing dishes & kept trying to turn the faucet from hot to cold, except it was already on cold.
Pulled out my instant-read thermometer: and the 'cold' tap water is 102.2°.
Pulled out my instant-read thermometer: and the 'cold' tap water is 102.2°.
August 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
After two 115° days in Tucson, I was washing dishes & kept trying to turn the faucet from hot to cold, except it was already on cold.
Pulled out my instant-read thermometer: and the 'cold' tap water is 102.2°.
Pulled out my instant-read thermometer: and the 'cold' tap water is 102.2°.
Flew over Lake Mead yesterday, thinking about how much of the Southwest’s future is bound to this reservoir, while Tucson and Pima County are inviting massive water-intensive data centers to the region.
Economic development as a practice is fundamentally flawed.
Economic development as a practice is fundamentally flawed.
July 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Flew over Lake Mead yesterday, thinking about how much of the Southwest’s future is bound to this reservoir, while Tucson and Pima County are inviting massive water-intensive data centers to the region.
Economic development as a practice is fundamentally flawed.
Economic development as a practice is fundamentally flawed.
Picked up Stiegler’s The Age of Disruption at used bookstore & couldn’t have found a more prescient diagnosis of our moment. DOGE’s liquidation of institutions, algorithmic governance & state-sponsored disposability of human lives is the logical endpoint the administration of savagery.
July 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Picked up Stiegler’s The Age of Disruption at used bookstore & couldn’t have found a more prescient diagnosis of our moment. DOGE’s liquidation of institutions, algorithmic governance & state-sponsored disposability of human lives is the logical endpoint the administration of savagery.
'Hence, all they do is travel here and there on punitive expeditions, adding territories to their domain...People should know about this.'
July 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
'Hence, all they do is travel here and there on punitive expeditions, adding territories to their domain...People should know about this.'
From a new piece on AI:
The logic that sells art without artists, songs without musicians, connection without embodiment, is the same logic that can destroy actual human bodies & call it necessary. When presence has no value in epistemic relations, its elimination becomes acceptable and inevitable
The logic that sells art without artists, songs without musicians, connection without embodiment, is the same logic that can destroy actual human bodies & call it necessary. When presence has no value in epistemic relations, its elimination becomes acceptable and inevitable
June 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
From a new piece on AI:
The logic that sells art without artists, songs without musicians, connection without embodiment, is the same logic that can destroy actual human bodies & call it necessary. When presence has no value in epistemic relations, its elimination becomes acceptable and inevitable
The logic that sells art without artists, songs without musicians, connection without embodiment, is the same logic that can destroy actual human bodies & call it necessary. When presence has no value in epistemic relations, its elimination becomes acceptable and inevitable