Reclaiming Human Expression for Human Understanding
The Certificate of Embodied Production (CEP) is the new standard for ungridified, human-made music
The Certificate of Embodied Production
What We Owe To Music
Modern recording software makes it easy to "fix" everything - snapping drums to the grid, auto-tuning vocals, the infinite undo habits we fall into. But something vital gets lost in this space: context, risk, and the elements which makes music reveal fundamental objective truths.
Music is not just notes, harmony, and rhythms. It is not part of the realm of quantification. Music exists to present the logical forms of feeling. When we flatten expressions into ‘perfect’ alignment, we eliminate music's capacity to carry knowledge.
The Certificate of Embodied Production reclaims the conditions that preserve human timing, pitch, and committed decision.
Why It Matters
Music teaches us to hold contradictions without collapsing them—joy and sorrow at once, the multiplicity of concurrent tensions which form the dense fabric of inner and outer life. That's what words can't do. Discursive language picks a side. while music holds space both.
When we ‘tighten’ up a performance by using an algorithm built into our DAW’s, we are erasing the knowledge embedded within those tensions. What an algorithm deems as imperfections, are the expressions of objective human embodiment. Not only do we lose our ability to express what can not be represented by words, we lose the practice in holding complexity - the same skill we need to recognize each other across difference.
What is Muse Foundry
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Muse Foundry is a record label releasing music exclusively through the Certificate of Embodied Production
First releases arrive in 2026
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Muse Foundry issues the Certificate of Embodied Production (CEP), the industry’s first standard for ungridified music.
The CEP Standard certifies that music is created in alignment with our methodology, ensuring it is free from gridification and AI manipulation.
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Muse Foundry is building a research and education center to advance understanding of the cultural, philosophical, and ethical dimensions of music production