Programme

Hop on the bus and explore Berlin’s music scene with fellow international MW:M delegates, including speakers. Organised by Berlin Music Commission, the tour connects four visits to venues and creative spaces, with time to meet their hosts and fellow delegates.

Tuesday, 3 November 2026, 13:00–18:00 (Berlin time).
Meeting point: nhow Berlin at 13:00.

Stops:
13:10–13:45 — MAAYA: a multicultural event and community space at RAW-Gelände.
14:00–14:50 — Tresor: a guided visit exploring the club and label’s history, legacy, and the challenges and successes of running the club today.
15:30–16:30 — Studio visit with Stefanie Egedy at Haus der Visionäre: sound, spatial perception and low-frequency vibration.
16:50–17:50 — DUYU: a hands-on visit to an independent music house in Gräfekiez.

Register for the entire bus tour or selected stops: https://airtable.com/appHkk592aL9dZU2y/pagGwfQxBlQMDdgaV/form

For questions, cancellations or special access needs, contact Antoine at antoine@mwm-berlin.de ahead of the tour.

Visit MAAYA, a multicultural event and community space at the RAW-Gelände in Berlin-Friedrichshain. Delegates will explore its indoor floor, garden, pool and backyard, and meet the venue’s CEO to discuss a space that has become a home for Berlin’s Afro-diasporic and other communities through club nights, concerts, daytime gatherings and public events.

Part of the MW:M26 international delegates bus tour on Tuesday, 3 November, 13:10–13:45. Join the full tour by bus or register for selected stops: https://airtable.com/appHkk592aL9dZU2y/pagGwfQxBlQMDdgaV/form

What does Germany need to put in place now, and what role can Berlin play, to build a competitive, sustainable and fair European AI music market?

The Berlin AI Think Tank brings together representatives from music, research, technology, law, rights management and policy to examine how the European AI and music market needs to function as it develops.

This Open Community Session brings music creators, artists, managers, political and policy participants and the wider music community into the discussion.

Key outcomes from the Think Tank’s working session will be shared, where appropriate, and discussed from the perspective of the wider community, with a focus on transparency, licensing, attribution, fair remuneration and the legal and practical conditions needed for implementation.

The session will be held in English.

Developed in collaboration between the Association for Electronic Music (AFEM), AIxchange, Fraunhofer IDMT and CIC Berlin, with MWM supporting community participation.

Discover Tresor, a Berlin techno nightclub and record label, on a guided tour led by Alexander Schulze. The visit explores Tresor’s history and legacy in Berlin’s techno scene, alongside the challenges and successes of running the club in today’s cultural and economic context.

Part of the MW:M26 international delegates bus tour on Tuesday, 3 November, 14:00–14:50. Join the full tour by bus or register for selected stops: https://airtable.com/appHkk592aL9dZU2y/pagGwfQxBlQMDdgaV/form

Artist Stefanie Egedy welcomes delegates into her working environment for an introduction to her practice with sound, spatial perception and low-frequency vibration.

Low-frequency sound artist and composer Stefanie Egedy creates embodied vibrational experiences grounded in sound as a physical force through site-specific installations, commissioned works and compositions. Sub-bass, bass and infrasound (LFS) — their tactility and capacity to permeate and traverse space, perceived by the skin and the body rather than the ear alone, form the core of her artistic practice. Her work explores the relationships between sound waves, architectural bodies and human bodies, investigating the physiological and somatic effects of LFS on human perception and bodily experience. Egedy’s practice builds two bodies of work: BODIES AND SUBWOOFERS (B.A.S.), which explores the sculptural presence of subwoofers and their relationships with human and architectural bodies through LFS, and SONIC ENERGETICS, which creates LFS environments that support somatic grounding and inner orientation. Immersed in this context, she articulates the crossing between sonic and musical language to investigate sonic communication between beings.

Discover the story behind DUYU, an independent music house in Gräfekiez bringing together instruments and sounds from around the world. This hands-on visit includes a welcome with tea and the opportunity to explore and play a wide range of instruments, experiencing DUYU as a meeting point for creativity and connection.

Part of the MW:M26 international delegates bus tour on Tuesday, 3 November, 16:50–17:50. Join the full tour by bus or register for selected stops: https://airtable.com/appHkk592aL9dZU2y/pagGwfQxBlQMDdgaV/form

Was macht einen Artist unverwechselbar? In diesem Workshop geht es darum, wie Künstler*innen eine klare Identität entwickeln, ihre Werte und Visionen schärfen und daraus eine authentische Marke aufbauen. Gemeinsam werfen wir einen Blick darauf, warum Positionierung in einem umkämpften Markt entscheidend ist und wie aus Musik, Persönlichkeit und Story ein stimmiges Gesamtbild entsteht, das Fans, Medien und Partner überzeugt.

Artist Management gehört zu den spannendsten, aber auch komplexesten Bereichen im Musikbusiness. Managerinnen begleiten Artists oft über Jahre hinweg, entwickeln Strategien, koordinieren Teams, verhandeln Deals, planen Releases, sprechen mit Labels, Bookerinnen, PR-Agenturen und manchmal auch mit Anwältinnen.
In dieser Session geht es darum, was Artist Management im Alltag wirklich bedeutet: Wie baut man eine Karriere auf? Ab wann braucht ein Act Management? Wie sieht die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Artist und Managerin aus? Und welche Skills braucht man, um in diesem Beruf zu arbeiten?
Ein realistischer Einblick in einen Beruf, der viel mit Vertrauen, Strategie, Kommunikation und Organisation zu tun hat.

Wie entstehen die Geräusche, Atmosphären und Klangwelten, die Filme und Videospiele lebendig machen? In diesem 45-minütigen Workshop bekommst du einen ersten Einblick in das Sound Design – mit einem besonderen Blick auf Game Audio. Im Gaming Room kannst du an mehreren Computerstationen selbst ausprobieren, wie Sounds entstehen und in interaktive Medien eingebunden werden.
Der Workshop wird von einer erfahrenen Sound Designerin und Komponistin geleitet, die aus der Praxis der Film-, Medien- und Games-Branche berichtet. Er richtet sich an alle, die sich für Games, Film, Musikproduktion und kreative Berufe interessieren – Vorkenntnisse sind nicht erforderlich.

Wer macht eigentlich was im Musikbusiness – und wie greifen all die verschiedenen Rollen und Bereiche ineinander? In diesem Workshop bekommen die Teilnehmenden einen niedrigschwelligen, praxisnahen Überblick über die Strukturen, Akteur*innen und Zusammenhänge im Musikökosystem. Gemeinsam wird die Musikbranche als übersichtliches Gesamtbild sichtbar gemacht und als grafische Darstellung erarbeitet – von kreativen über organisatorische bis hin zu wirtschaftlichen Bereichen. Die Berufsorientierung erfolgt dabei entlang der Entwicklung eines fiktiven Newcomer-Acts, anhand dessen die verschiedenen Berufsfelder und ihre Zusammenhänge praxisnah erkundet werden.

Wie entstehen Sichtbarkeit, Netzwerke und neue Möglichkeiten in Musikszenen jenseits des Mainstreams?
Die 26-jährige Li Smilgies arbeitet in den Bereichen Booking, Marketing, Events und Community Building und war unter anderem für Projekte und Partner wie METAL HAMMER, LIDO Berlin, Domino Records, MODUS Berlin oder Festivals wie Full Force aktiv. Im Workshop spricht sie darüber, wie sie sich seit ihren ersten Band- und DIY-Projekten im Jugendalter durch Eigeninitiative, Communitybuilding und Selbstvermarktung schon früh eine eigene Präsenz und berufliche Möglichkeiten innerhalb alternativer Musikszenen aufgebaut hat.
Du möchtest eigene Projekte starten, sichtbarer werden, Communitys aufbauen oder deinen eigenen Karriereweg in der Musikszene finden? Dann bietet dir dieser Workshop praxisnahe Einblicke, Tipps und Erfahrungen direkt aus der Szene.

Thank you for joining Most Wanted: Music Research! After today’s talks and performances, we invite you to stay for the networking reception focused on music research, industry, and emerging talent.

Continue the conversations, meet fellow creators and thinkers, and celebrate a day of shared curiosity, collaboration, and creative exploration.

Agents do much more than confirm dates: they decide which artists to take on, shape how careers are positioned, maintain business relationships and have a unique overview of the whole ecosystem. Most of their work is invisible – including to their own artists.

This 90-minute session will expose the operational reality of the role, from what goes on inside an agency to how they interact with promoters on the other side of the table. This session will deconstruct what actually happens inside an agency and explore different agency models. It will also explore the various approaches to work including how agents choose artists and build healthy working relationships. The session will teach how agents can position themselves and develop their own tastes, networks and goals.

Participants will leave with a clear picture of where the agent sits in the electronic music ecosystem, where their own work sits alongside it, how to build an agency and what they should be asking next.

This presentation explores themes of sound and imagination through research-led practice. Based on the work of Pauline Oliveros and Bryon Gysin, Sonia Killmann‘s research focuses on active listening through mental imagery in collective listening spaces. The research is shared through workshop performances that have a participatory element rooted in collective improvisation and promote imaginative listening through closed eyes. Sonia Killmann will share current reflections of a workshop performance conducted at Open Out festival in Tromsø with cellist Simone Seales This performance took place in a queer-only space. After the reflection, Sonia will lead a collective listening exercise to demonstrate their research to this date.

Classical musicians are trained for precision – but mastery doesn’t automatically create openness to uncertainty. What would change if artistic agency, not artistic selection, became the starting point of how artists are developed? Krisana Locke (somatic & tantric practitioner), Jürgen Grözinger (conductor & sound healer) and Anja Bien (CEO, Hamel Foundation) share insights from IMPROVISO, a research-based mentorship, improvisation and embodied agency.