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Alberta Music Cities Convention 2026
The Alberta Music Cities Convention brings together policymakers, music-sector leaders, and advocates working across economic development, workforce development, cultural infrastructure, and city policy. Musical Form Institute founder Jeffrey Anthony attended to meet organizations leading music-city research and strategy projects and discuss how the Local Sound Recording Initiative could add a focused assessment of studios, production labor, and local recording activity.
About the Local Sound Recording Initiative →Susanne K. Langer Circle Conference 2026
Jeffrey Anthony presented "Operationalizing Langer's Presentational Symbols: The Certificate of Embodied Production as Musical Praxis" at an international philosophy conference at the Susanne K. Langer Circle in Vienna. The lecture is posted on the CEP page.
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The Climate Crisis Has a Music Problem
Perfect music is teaching us to hear the silencing of difference as harmony. In this essay, Jeffrey Anthony, Founder and Director of the Musical Form Institute, argues that the climate crisis is a crisis of coordination, and that a culture saturated with machine-perfect music is weakening our capacity to coordinate across difference.
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‘Human-First’ Needs More Than Just a Checkbox
In a guest article for Hypebot, Jeffrey Anthony, Founder and Director of the Musical Form Institute, responds to proposals for self-attested “human-first” music labels and explains why meaningful claims require independent standards, evidentiary review, public accountability, and enforcement. The article presents the Certificate of Embodied Production as a working model for that certification infrastructure.
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Gridification Is Reshaping Music. Now Is the Perfect Time to Talk About Perfect Timing.
Jeffrey Anthony, Founder and Director of the Musical Form Institute, was invited to write a guest post for On Repeat Records on what gridification is, how it has changed the way music is made, and how we receive it.
Read the article →At Indie Week, I Watched the Music Industry Sell Out to AI
Jeffrey Anthony, Founder and Director of the Musical Form Institute, reports from a panel at A2IM Indie Week featuring executives from Meta, Suno, Warner Music Group, and EMPIRE, and watches the industry reframe artists' work as "content" while an AI company sells its output as "music."
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