Most Wanted: Music Research is a new subconference format of Most Wanted: Music Convention on November 14, 2024 at Kulturbrauerei Berlin as a collaborative format with the GMM, IMBRA, C:POP and other academic partners. MW:M Research is established as a new arena for encounters between artists, practitioners and researchers. The day will start with the Applied Knowledge Lab initiated by GMM, IMBRA & MW:M. For the afternoon we invite talks, presentations, papers, demos and discursive formats from the areas of music business, music culture, and music tech. Topics are organized in three tracks and may focus on, but are not limited to this year’s conference theme Monetize!

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, Music Education

3) Music Tech

• Musical Instruments and Interfaces: Embodied Design, Human-Comupter 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

Contribution Formats:

• Paper (up to 5k words) + Presentation (10min) on site in Berlin

• Presentation only (10min)

• Paper only (up to 5k words)

• Video presentation

• Discussion or other interactive format involving more than 1 presenter

• Demo, installation, or performance (limited to venue ressources and spatial capacity)

We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline has been extended! Submissions including 300 word abstracts are invited at LINK until Monday, September 2, 2024, 7 pm CET. Papers submissions should be made to https://mwm.pubpub.org/. Contributors will be notified by September 30.

MW:M Research specifically intends to motivate collaborative work of practitioners and researchers. That is why we created an inclusive platform for the ideation stage, where everyone interested in contributing can raise questions, discuss methods, and find collaborators to develop a submission at https://discord.com/invite/HuXjrmJVvB

Accepted contributors receive free registration for the full conference program of Most Wanted: Music.