Events
Every edition, newest first.
Twenty-five numbered meetups plus the one we did at Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg. The dates, venues and lineups come from the Meetup archive and from our own notes, so a few of the early ones are thinner than the rest.
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Title to be announced
Date and lineup still to be confirmed.
24May
2026
Connect Beyond the Preset
Four presenters and the first edition with demo tables. The evening was built around the human end of the signal chain.
23Mar
2026
Sonic Spring Connections
Two Berlin presenters and five French startups, brought over with Institut Français and Business France for ICC Immersion Germany.
22Dec
2025
Artist Enablers & New Sonic Vista
The winter edition, put together with Berlin Design Network. Neurotech, spatial audio, audio-ML and a marketplace for independent artists.
21Apr
2025
Springtime for the Future of Music Creation
New tools for producing and performing, and for handling the business side of being an artist.
20Jan
2025
New Year Gathering & Innovation Showcases
Opened the year with showcases of new platforms for producers and for people learning an instrument.
19Dec
2024
Pioneering the Future of Music: Community Showcases & Open Jam Session
Four showcases followed by an open jam. The only edition that ended with everyone playing.
18Nov
2024
Technology as Music Community Enabler
An evening about what technology does for a whole scene, instead of for one producer at a desk.
17May
2024
Immersed in Music through Spatial Audio
Four practitioners on immersive acoustics, from the production room through to the finished installation.
16Dec
2023
Creative Community Innovation
Five presenters from across the creative community.
15Nov
2023
Artist Empowerment through Machine Learning
Machine learning put to work for artists: tagging, recommendation, recognition and fan activation.
14Oct
2023
Human Virtuosity in Music Production with AI
Three artists and engineers on keeping a human in the loop.
13Jun
2023
Intelligent Instruments for Musical Expression
Four instrument builders on getting from an idea to working hardware.
12Mar
2023
AI as Collaborative Partner in Musical Creativity
Four researchers and engineers on where AI was already in use, past the buzzword stage.
11Oct
2022
The Unheard Of
Startups most of the room had not heard of, including a Kyiv cultural house presenting under wartime conditions.
10Apr
2022
3D Spatial Audio for XR
Two takes on spatial audio: building immersive acoustic worlds, and why XR falls flat without sound.
RBSep
2021
Berlin MusicTech Meetup @ Reeperbahn Festival
The first time the meetup left Berlin. Music Tech Declares Emergency, plus pitches from the Music Worx 2021 cohort.
9Sep
2021
Berlin MusicTech Meetup #9
Back in a room after the online editions, with artist and researcher Mat Dryhurst.
8Mar
2021
Music, Sound and Wellbeing
What music and sound do for health and wellbeing.
7Jan
2021
Hardware & Musical Instruments
The return after a long pause, co-hosted with Soundbrenner. An evening of instrument builders.
6Jan
2020
Berlin MusicTech Meetup #6
The first edition of 2020: AI mixing and arranging, modular creation in XR, and tools for jamming.
5Nov
2019
Berlin MusicTech Meetup & Music Pool Berlin Community Abend
A joint evening with Music Pool Berlin. Four presentations on data, AI and the physical medium, then a DJ.
4Jul
2019
Berlin MusicTech Meetup — Open Air
The summer edition, held outdoors.
3Apr
2019
Berlin MusicTech Meetup #3
AI death metal, the power of human touch, and some utopian uses for music technology.
2Feb
2019
Berlin MusicTech Meetup #2
AI for video game music, and machine learning in music creation.
1Nov
2018
New Musical Interfaces
The very first one. Three inventors of genuinely new musical interfaces.