Matthew Hartley Music — MCP Server

The first artist-owned MCP server. Discover, narrate, and stream a continuous, story-driven album from inside any AI client that speaks the Model Context Protocol.

Live endpoint (public, no auth):

https://matthewhartleymusic.com/wp-json/mcp/v1/message

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What it is

This MCP server exposes The Time Is Now: A Journey in Chapters — Matthew Hartley's debut album — as a structured, AI-native experience. Twelve songs across six chapters, each with lyrics, emotional narrative, version recordings, and direct streaming links. Designed so any AI client can:

• Discover the catalog — list songs and chapters with rich metadata
• Tell the story behind each song — short and full narratives, lyrics, mood tags
• Curate a sequenced listening experience — six listening modes (late_night, devotional, acoustic_focus, cinematic, quiet_listening, full_journey) with scene directives for visual presentation
• Stream the audio directly — fresh signed Cloudflare R2 URLs minted on demand, ~4-hour TTL with a refresh tool to keep playback uninterrupted

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Quick install

Claude Desktop

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "matthew-hartley-music": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://matthewhartleymusic.com/wp-json/mcp/v1/message"
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. The server appears in your tool list.

Claude Code (CLI)

claude mcp add matthew-hartley-music https://matthewhartleymusic.com/wp-json/mcp/v1/message

Test the connection

curl -X POST https://matthewhartleymusic.com/wp-json/mcp/v1/message \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

You should get back JSON listing all 8 tools.

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Tools

Tool	Purpose
list_songs	List all songs (filter by chapter slug or release status)
get_song	Fetch one song by ID or slug — lyrics, quotes, cover art, streaming links, chapter assignment
list_chapters	List all chapters with numeral, name, year range, mood tags, song count
get_chapter	Fetch one chapter with all songs and full ACF narrative
get_artist	Artist profile + biographical context
get_experience	One-shot curated playlist for a listening mode — songs, scenes, fresh stream URLs
get_experience_prompt	Returns the narration prompt template AI agents use to host listening sessions
refresh_stream_urls	Mint fresh signed audio URLs in bulk, before existing URLs expire

All tools return JSON-RPC 2.0 responses. Streaming-capable songs gate streaming by release_status; chapter narratives gate by chapter_released.

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Example prompts to try

After installing, ask Claude:

"List Matthew Hartley's songs and tell me the story behind 'Heaven's Calling.'"

"Build me a quiet_listening experience using the get_experience tool. Then narrate it like a storyteller introducing each song."

"What's the journey of his album, chapter by chapter?"

"Play me Chapter VI and explain what changed in his life during that season."

The get_experience tool is the highest-leverage call — one request returns a fully-sequenced playlist with stream URLs and visual scene cues, ready for a listening session.

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The reference player

A dedicated browser player is built directly on this MCP:

Harmonic Wave Experience Media Player — A cinematic, audio-reactive listening experience with DJ voiceovers, LRC-synced lyric overlays, and per-song visual palettes. Nothing to install — just open and listen.

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Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────┐
│  Any AI client (Claude,     │
│  ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.)     │
└────────────┬────────────────┘
             │ JSON-RPC over HTTP
             ▼
┌─────────────────────────────┐
│ matthewhartleymusic.com     │
│ /wp-json/mcp/v1/message     │
│ (WordPress mu-plugin)       │
└────────────┬────────────────┘
             │ signs URLs at request time
             ▼
┌─────────────────────────────┐
│  Cloudflare R2              │
│  (private bucket — signed   │
│   URLs only, 4-hour TTL)    │
└─────────────────────────────┘

• WordPress hosts the catalog (custom post types song and artist, taxonomy chapter, ACF fields for lyrics/stories/streaming links)
• Audio files live in a private Cloudflare R2 bucket, accessed via AWS Sig V4 presigned URLs minted on demand
• The MCP endpoint is fully public — no auth required. Per-song streaming is gated server-side by release status.

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About Matthew Hartley

Matthew Hartley is a Christian rock songwriter from Sarasota, FL — and a 25+ year software industry veteran whose career spans engineering, architecture, sales, and executive leadership, with multiple USPTO patent filings to his name. He leads Imagine Peak Studios, the studio behind this MCP and the Harmonic Wave platform. The Time Is Now: A Journey in Chapters is a twelve-song album written across twenty-five years (1999–2026) — six chapters tracing innocence and heartbreak, awakening, breaking the cycle, love and commitment, collapse and calling, and grounded faith.

• Website: matthewhartleymusic.com
• Experience player: experience.matthewhartleymusic.com
• Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, SoundCloud: all linked per-song in the MCP responses

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Powered by Harmonic Wave

This server is built on the Harmonic Wave platform — for content creators making their work AI-native.

The platform also includes a Harmonic Wave plugin for Claude Code that turns prompts into custom media players for catalogs on the platform.

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License

The documentation in this repository is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. The MCP server's WordPress mu-plugin source code is proprietary and is not included in this repository. The music, lyrics, story content, and audio recordings exposed by the MCP are © Imagine Peak Studios — all rights reserved.