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Why Taylor Swift Sounds Better Through a Closed Door

Kierkegaard, Streaming Culture, and the Retrieval of a Pop Song’s Buried Form

May 25

Why Taylor Swift Sounds Better Through a Closed Door

May 25

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The Riff

The Future of Music Is Offline

Spotify and AI are replacing our living music with a dead one

Mar 19

The Future of Music Is Offline

Mar 19

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I Asked Generative AI Music Platform Suno to Write a Podcast Theme…Things Got Weird

AI, Music, and Coherence: What Are We Trying To Accomplish?

Mar 27, 2024

I Asked Generative AI Music Platform Suno to Write a Podcast Theme…Things Got Weird

Mar 27, 2024

Where Have All the Men Gone?

Pop-Stoicism, Generative AI, and Our Rehearsal for Erasing the Other

Jun 23

A painting depicting people dining at outdoor restaurant tables, illustrating the social spaces where presence and encounter unfold

Jun 23

2016: The Year Music Changed and the Machines Didn’t Notice

Why Your Music No longer Holds Time (And the Cost to Our Shared Understanding)

Jun 15

2016: The Year Music Changed and the Machines Didn’t Notice

Jun 15

The Great AI Grift

If You Need to Rebrand Theft as Innovation, You Don’t Have a Business Model

May 28

The Great AI Grift

May 28

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Thought Thinkers

How the Walkman Taught Us to Be Alone

Tracing the collapse of shared reality from the HOT LINE button to Spotify’s algorithmic control

May 21

Black and white photo of Mme. Asta Souvrina, “the Bernhardt of Russia,” sitting beside a dog named Buster. Both are wearing headphones, listening to a radiophone device on a table in front of them. Taken around 1922 by Underwood & Underwood.

May 21

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Counter Arts

Why Democrats Can’t Win Inside the Wrestling Ring

Trumpism, AI, and the symbolic collapse that only art can repair

May 17

Why Democrats Can’t Win Inside the Wrestling Ring

May 17

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Counter Arts

How The NRA and Spotify Perform the Same Sleight of Hand

Guns and algorithms are machines that define what is possible, and therefore what is real

May 1

How The NRA and Spotify Perform the Same Sleight of Hand

May 1

Stop Calling AI a Tool It’s Not a Tool

Generative AI doesn’t extend the artist, it replaces the conditions under which art is possible

Apr 23

Stop Calling AI a Tool It’s Not a Tool

Apr 23

Jeffrey Anthony

Jeffrey Anthony

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Writing on AI, music, culture, & aesthetics. Founder of Muse Foundry, an offline label resisting algorithmic compliance. Join us: musefoundry.studio

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