Jeffrey Anthony started playing drums at age 7 and was recording with Sheryl Crow a year out of college. He began his recording career at the exact moment studios worldwide were transitioning from tape to Pro Tools - watching performances shift from being captured to being constructed on visual grids.

In 2004, Jeffrey landed a gig as a music analyst for a nascent startup in the Bay Area - Pandora Radio. Jeffrey had a front-row seat to two transformations: inside recording studios, where infinite undo and grid-based editing became standard practice, and at Pandora, where he his work on the Music Genome Project helped build the algorithmic systems that now shape how millions discover music. During those years, he continued recording and touring with Chuck Prophet, Jeff Trott, Tony Furtado, Josh Smith, Eric McFadden, The Portland Cello Project, and dozens more.

In recording studios, Jeffrey saw first hand the shift toward isolated tracking, performances being treated as elements to be mined from ignoring their qualitative wholeness, and the change in session musicians disposition to a take knowing that any take would be manipulated anyways.

On the road, he heard musicians express uneasiness about how recording had changed and how listeners now engaged with music anonymously through algorithmically generated playlists rather than albums and sitting with the music. Music production become further optimized for streaming metrics while the relational and temporal qualities that give music its depth quietly were silenced.

In 2025, Jeffrey founded Muse Foundry as a cultural intervention. The Certificate of Embodied Production is the framework through which the tentacles of the algorithmic logic both in what people are served and what music performances are ‘perfected’ too is subverted.

The Certificate of Embodied Production is an operationalization of philosopher Susanne K. Langer's theory of music as a presentational symbol - a form of knowledge that holds what language cannot articulate.

If you are an artist who seeks a space for music that refuses to serve algorithms, that preserves human timing and committed decision-making, and that treats recordings as knowledge rather than content - reach out and lets talk. Muse Foundry exists to support artists who believe their work deserves to remain human.