The corruption of the symbolic system is not just discursive either. The same transformation hit music production about 20 years ago.

How music is made shapes how we live together.

Musical Form Institute | CEP and CSF Certification for Sound Recordings The Musical Form Institute administers two certifications for sound recordings: the Certificate of Embodied Production (CEP) and Certified Significant Form (CSF), verifying recordings made without gen...

Our critique of gridification begins from a simple claim: music discloses meaning. When modern music production treats embodied expression as error in need of correction, it strips away the conditions for that disclosure and trains us to hear difference itself as error.

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This gets very close to the philosophical basis of the Certificate of Embodied Production. When simulation becomes the norm, our capacity to hear difference as a space of coordination weakens. In music, that happens when human expression is treated as error in need of correction.

What is Gridifcation A 50-year comparison of Billboard’s top songs shows how recorded music became machine-perfect.

Something happened to recorded music over the last 25-years that most people can hear & feel but almost nobody has language for. I call it gridification.

Part One of a new series from the Musical Form Institute, on what we lose when human time gets 'corrected':

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What is Gridifcation A 50-year comparison of Billboard’s top songs shows how recorded music became machine-perfect.

Something happened to recorded music over the last 25-years that most people can hear & feel but almost nobody has language for. I call it gridification.

Part One of a new series from the Musical Form Institute, on what we lose when human time gets 'corrected':

open.substack.com/pub/musicalf...

"Suno, I’m a Coward. Write Me a Song About Teenage Angst." How algorithmic culture teaches surrender as creativity

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The Shame Machine AI Art and the Crisis of Making

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The Shame Machine AI Art and the Crisis of Making

Something is happening beneath the AI vs art debate that neither the boosters nor the critics have named.

Both operate at the level of what people do with the technology.

Neither asks what it does to the person sitting in front of it.

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