Innovation In Music and Music Tech Fest Partnership Announced
We are delighted to announce a partnership between Music Tech Fest and the Innovation in Music conference!
Innovation in Music will provide a formal conduit for research arising from the practice-led Music Tech Fest community. This will include offering publication via both the conference proceedings and the forthcoming Innovation in Music Journal, allowing Music Tech Fest innovators to gain peer-reviewed outputs.
Music Tech Fest is the "festival of music ideas" which unites the entire music technology ecosystem under one roof and provides a creative platform for collaboration and co-creation by hackers, musicians, innovative startups, independent and major music labels and technology companies.
Since its launch, the event has been requested in multiple worldwide locations and has since expanded from Europe into a global music technology network with events currently running across several continents. By developing methodologies that nurture creative collaboration, ideas seeding and incubation, the Music Tech Fest has demonstrated the value of joining academia and industry, as well as art and science, in a collaborative platform.
The festival main stage features a series of back to back performances, demonstrations and presentations, showcasing and celebrating the latest research, ideas, experiments, new instruments, technologies and designs. In addition, the festival hosts a 24-hour "hack camp" at which artists and technologists collaborate to invent new types of instruments, new ways of making music and new ways of experiencing music and following the weekend's festival, there is an academic symposium ‘afterparty’ on the Monday that brings together some of the world’s top scholars working at the intersection of music and technology to reflect and build upon the ideas showcased over the preceding few days.
The festival has expanded to create a whole value chain from vision and ideas to investment and industry, including: incubation of new projects; vision and policy for the future of music and technology; venture capital funding for innovative startups; and new directions for the future of the music industry.