Welcome to the #MTFResearch Symposium at Music Tech Fest Stockholm in association with KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

#MTFResearch is a global interdisciplinary network of academics and researchers from the sciences and humanities. The symposium is a place to connect, initiate and develop new research projects at the intersection of music and technology. The symposium brings together brilliant minds from around the world to seed discussions that connect those diverse areas of study and explores new potential collaborations.

We’re thrilled that the brilliant Nancy Baym of Microsoft Research will be joining us as the leader of the symposium. She will give an opening keynote in addition to launching her new book ‘Playing to the Crowd’ (NYU Press). A pioneer in the field of internet research, Nancy is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft in New England and Research Affiliate in Comparative Media Studies and Writing at MIT. Her work reveals the subtle and pervasive ways people make sense of new communication technologies and weave them into their everyday lives. Read more about Nancy here.

The #MTFResearch Symposium format provides space for researchers from all disciplines to present and discuss their work, engage with world-leading researchers and explore opportunities for new collaborative projects.

The Symposium ticket includes full membership of the global #MTFResearch Network, free entry to the public Music Tech Fest Stockholm event and a Music Tech Fest t-shirt. GET YOUR TICKET HERE.

The programme over the two days will include guest speakers and wide-ranging discussion on a range of interdisciplinary and cutting-edge topics:

THURSDAY
12:00 Intro and welcome by Nancy Baym
12:30 Human Music Interaction
14:00 Fika (coffee and snack)
14:30 Radical Inclusion
16:00 Digital Archives
17:30 Ends

FRIDAY
08:00 Coffee
08:30 Music Rights and Blockchain
10:00 Fika
10:30 Artificial Intelligence
12:00 Ends

Guests include:

• Jeremy Morris: Professor of Media Studies from the University of Madison-Wisconsin, author of “Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture” and founder of Podcastre.org - a searchable/researchable database that indexes and preserves hundreds of thousands of podcasts from around the world.
• Hedvig Kjellström: Professor in Robotics and Machine Learning from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, whose work includes advanced gesture-driven conductor-orchestra communication, and the creation of an opera choir consisting of flying drones.
• Allen Bargfrede: Music industry futurist and social theorist from Berklee College of Music, whose work concerns distribution, licensing and payments for digital music, blockchain, and the use of music as medicine.
• Carlotta de Ninni: Head of Research and Operations at Mycelia, and an expert in music copyright and licensing, blockchain technology, smart contracts and AR/VR.
• Marcus O’Dair: convenor of the Blockchain for Creative Industries research and teaching cluster at Middlesex University in London and author of Distributed Creativity, about the impact of blockchain technology on the creative industries.
• Jez Collins: founder of the Birmingham Music Archive, documentary film-maker and co-director of UnConvention.

Tickets are limited to just 100 places. 

The symposium is based on the principles of the Manifesto for the Future of Music Technology Research (or ‘Musictechifesto’) - written at the first #MTFResearch Symposium at Microsoft NERD Labs in Cambridge, MA in 2014.

UPDATE: We have just secured a fantastic deal for #MTFResearch symposium attendees to stay in absolute luxury at the Radisson Blu Royal Park Hotel for around half the normal price. Here’s the direct link to that deal. Make sure you book early!