MW:M 2025
Research

Most Wanted: Music Research will take place on November 13, 2025 at Kulturbrauerei Berlin and was established as a new arena for encounters between artists, practitioners and researchers. We invite talks, presentations, papers, demos and discursive formats from the areas of music business, music culture, music tech, and music education.

Topics may focus, but are not limited to this year’s conference theme TRANSFORM! which positions the global music community not as subjects of external forces, but as architects and builders of tomorrow’s music ecosystem.

• The call is open until Monday, 30th of June, 7:00pm AoE.
• All submissions should be made here including a 300 word abstract.
• Papers submissions should be made here.
• Contributors will be notified by Monday, September 1st.
• Accepted contributors receive free registration for the full conference program of Most Wanted: Music.

1) Music Business 

• Monetization and Marketing of Artistic Work: Digital Business Models from Songwriting to Digital Marketing, Funding Strategies, Promotion Tools
• Value-based Practices: Creative Entrepreneurship and Collaboration, Artist Management, Music Rights, Digital Platform Use
• Ecosystemic Sustainability: Accessible Frameworks, Diverse Distribution Systems, Sustainable Practices

2) Music Cultures and Events 

• Music Cultures and Genres: Music Performance and Listening, Co-creation and Social Musicking, Cultural Differences
• Event-related Research: Concert and Festival Studies, Event Market Research, Globalisation
• Music Cognition and Psychology: Music Perception and Emotion, Music Movement, Therapy and Wellbeing

3) Music Tech 

• Musical Instruments and Interfaces: Embodied Design, Human-Computer Interfaces for Music, Networked Instruments
• Immersive Music: Music Metaverse, Internet of Things, 3D Audio
• Artificial Intelligence in Music: Computational Creativity, Intelligent Music Discovery, Collaborative Music AI

4) Music Education and Social Impact 

• Institutional Music Education: K12 Education, University Education, Lifelong Learning
• Professional Development: Skill Building in the Creative Industries, Entrepreneurship
• EdTech: Music Technology in Education and Educational Technologies in Music Learning
• Social Impact of Music: Social and Political Transformation, Inclusive Practices, Music and Health, Cultural Dialogue, Community Music

We kindly ask you to fill out everything in ENGLISH as it is the conference’s main language.

If you have any requests, comments or just want to give a short feedback you are welcome to do so by sending an email to the programme team via programme@mwm-berlin.de.