Get your Claude Code muzak here (interconnected.org)

Mike Davidson (Mike Industries) released "Claude Muzak," a tiny GitHub project that automatically plays elevator-style background music while your Claude Code agent compiles or writes code. It’s an easy-to-install add-on that ships with three MP3 tracks to play during those idle coding moments — a playful UX tweak aimed at turning wait time into ambient, mildly entertaining feedback. The post also surfaced practical behavior: many users run multiple Claude instances in parallel, sparking requests for “polyphonic” music where each agent plays one track to form a layered soundtrack. That idea matters beyond novelty: ambient and adaptive audio can become a low-bandwidth, intuitive feedback channel for multi-agent development workflows. Think of each Claude as a voice in a reactive soundtrack (à la video-game adaptive music or Steve Reich-style phasing), where layers intensify as tests fail or tasks stall — signalling attention hotspots without filling logs or alerts. The post references prior projects like Matthew Irvine Brown’s Music for Shuffle (18 short clips designed for recombination), suggesting compositional patterns for algorithmic mixing. Practically, this points to UX innovations for agent orchestration dashboards (throttling, permissions, health signals) and an intersection of arts and engineering that firms like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google could sponsor: ambient audio as a lightweight, expressive telemetry channel for AI swarms.