Cluster 01 · 24 speakers
AI
AI as a creative instrument · AI-generated music & human creativity · AI in rights administration · Machine learning for artists
#12, #14, #15, #24
New venture · Kreuzberg Audio · Claimy · MusicMapper · Gig 'n' Pick · Just 4 Noise · DJOID · AI tagging · Independent · SEMILLA.AI · Retro Futur project · Birds on Mars · The Jam Machine · Pixelynx · Fraunhofer IDMT · Birds on Mars · Independent · AI mixing · AI ambient visualisation · Dadabots / CommonEdits · Melodrive · Emblemotion · DFKI · Portrait XO
Cluster 02 · 14 speakers
Immersive & spatial
Spatial audio & virtual performance · 3D audio for XR · Audio-reactive live visuals · Interactive spaces & tracking
#10, #17, #22, #23
Vibely · LidoXR · Augmenta · Spatial performance format · EMRSIV · Spatial Media Lab e.V. · msm-studios · kling klang klong · MediaApes · Nagual Sounds · Spatial Media Lab · Modular music in XR · AI ambient visualisation · MuX, with Decochon
Cluster 03 · 30 speakers
Creation tools
Collaborative & browser-based production · Plugins, synths & samplers · Game-inspired composition interfaces · Intelligent instruments · Hardware & musical instruments
#7, #13, #21, #23, #24
Audiotool · Chordite · Kreuzberg Audio · KITE Sampler · Soundbrenner · ACPAD · The Glide · Instruments of Things · Playtronica · Zibi Hardware · Kreisklang · Just 4 Noise · Rytm · Independent · SEMILLA.AI · Retro Futur project · Plecto LFO · MOD AUDIO · Birds on Mars · axart software · Nagual Sounds · AI mixing · Modular music in XR · Jambl · Music Maker JAM · Dadabots / CommonEdits · Melodrive · dadamachines · MuX, with Decochon · Independent
Cluster 05 · 9 speakers
Discovery
Cultural & classical discovery · Audio-ML music organisation · Ecosystem & network mapping
#22, #23
Melotick · ohr · Vialma · MusicMapper · RS Baze · DJOID · AI tagging · Fraunhofer IDMT · ForTunes
Cluster 06 · 10 speakers
Business & rights
Royalties & publishing admin · Artist services & marketplaces
#22, #23
Claimy · Vialma · Music Minds · European Artist Bank · European Artist Bank · finalflow · Gig 'n' Pick · Granola Studios · haywirez / rawfare · Musicards
Cluster 07 · 5 speakers
Culture & wellbeing
Sound & mental state, neurotech · Regenerative & remix culture
#22
GOGIA · plantasia.space · Playtronica · Moonai · Tala Nada Brahma
Cluster 08 · 3 speakers
Learning
Music education & practice tools
#24
New venture · nound · Independent
What the titles reveal
Three long-running threads, not a scatter of one-off evenings. AI has been a headline theme since #12 and returns at #14, #15, #20, #22, #23 and #24. Spatial and immersive audio appears at #10, #17 and again at #22, five years apart. Community as a subject in its own right carries #16, #18 and #20. That is the argument to make to a funder.