About
We have been doing this since November 2018.
Berlin Music Tech is the meetup run by MusicTech Germany e.V. We started it because there was nowhere in the city where the people building music software could regularly show each other what they were working on.
The format
An evening roughly every two months in Berlin-Kreuzberg, free to attend. Four to seven people present something they built. Over the years that has meant plugins, synths, research prototypes, whole platforms, and a few things that barely ran on the night. The questions afterwards usually last longer than the demos did.
The first one was in November 2018 at The Venue Berlin, with three people showing new musical interfaces. There have been 25 editions in total. Two of them ran on Airmeet during the lockdowns, one took place in Hamburg for Reeperbahn Festival, and the rest have been in Berlin, lately at FORUM Factory.
Worth knowing beforehand
There is no jury and nothing to win. Presenters are not expected to show a finished product, and in our experience someone admitting that a part does not work yet gets much better questions than a clean product tour.
Entry is free for everyone and there are no tickets or tiers. The Berlin Senate and our partners pay for the room and the drinks.
Who runs it
Bundesverband Musiktechnologie Deutschland e.V. is the federal association for music technology in Germany, founded in Berlin in 2017. The meetup is the part of the association that is open to everybody, and you do not need a membership to come along.
Presenting here
If you have built something and can talk about it for ten minutes, get in touch. It does not need to be finished, and we would rather hear about the difficult parts than watch a product walkthrough. We usually put a lineup together about six weeks before the date.