Upcoming events
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 will attend 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 →Music Policy Forum 2026
Music Policy Forum convenes musicians, public officials, researchers, and advocates working to strengthen local music ecosystems. Jeffrey Anthony will attend the 2026 gathering in Denver to continue conversations about including recording infrastructure and production labor in local music policy and economic-development strategies.
About the Local Sound Recording Initiative →Current news
‘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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