MTF Labs / Music Tech Fest | |
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Dates | 2012-present |
Location(s) | Aveiro, Berlin, Boston, Frankfurt, Genoa, Helsinki, Karlsruhe, Liège, Ljubljana, London, Örebro, Paris, Pula, Stockholm, Umeå and Wellington |
Founded by | Michela Magas |
Website | MTF Labs official site |
MTF Labs is a series of innovation labs, festivals and events encouraging innovation through creative work, particularly music.[1]
Since the first Music Tech Fest in 2012, a community has formed around the festival with over 7,500 members from fields such as medicine, aviation, product design, AI, music composition, microcomputing, traditional crafts, neuroscience, ecology and economics.[2]
The first MTF Labs took place at Music Tech Fest Berlin in 2016.[3] In 2018, MTF Labs superseded Music Tech Fest to become the main activity. The festival was run by UK design company Stromatolite LTD until 2018, when the Swedish company MTF Labs AB was established specifically in order to organise MTF Labs events and promote the activities of its community.[4]
It has been hosted worldwide by partners including IRCAM, The London Symphony Orchestra, SoundCloud, Mixcloud, The BBC, EMI, RCA Records, Shazam, Last.fm, Ableton, Native Instruments, Izotope, FXpansion, RS Components, RjDj, WIRED, MTV, Microsoft Research, Cisco, Stephen Fry/Penguin, EU Commission, DMIC, British Council, Sound and Music, MTG, Fraunhofer Society, BCU, MIT Media Lab, Berklee College of Music, McGill, Goldsmiths, Royal College of Art, Ninja Tune, Warp, The Echo Nest, MusicBrainz, Reactable, Jamie Cullum, Tim Exile, Leafcutter John.
MTF Labs has stated its aim to "address grand challenges through curiosity, ingenuity and collaborative making."[5] According to its founder Michela Magas, the labs have also had "major implications for our understanding of systems, interactions, communications or the future of work."[6] These discoveries have, amongst other things, led to the establishment of Industry Commons,[7] which seeks to use the same ethos of cross-domain collaboration to shape the broader innovation landscape.
History
Music Tech Fest began as result of the Roadmap for Music Information Research (MIReS),[8] a European FP7 project run by seven European research centers: Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona; Stromatolite; OFAI, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria; INESCP, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Porto, Portugal; IRCAM at the Centre Pompidou in Paris; Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), Queen Mary, University of London, UK; and Barcelona Music and Audio Technology (BMAT), Barcelona, Spain.
The project's Scientific Director Michela Magas of Stromatolite launched the first Music Tech Fest event in London 2012 as a way to bring academics and practitioners together. The first festival included contributions from EMI, BBC, Spotify, SoundCloud and Shazam as well as academic researchers, makers, developers and artists. MTF London 2012 featured 54 performers and presenters, 70 hackers and 70 creatives.
In May 2013 the festival ran again in London with the additional involvement of all of the major record labels. In September of that year, Professor Andrew Dubber from Birmingham City University joined as festival director. In 2014, the festival went on tour with events in Wellington, Boston, London, Berlin and Paris. In 2015 festival organisers scheduled larger regional events, rather than focusing on individual cities: MTF Scandinavia in Umeå and MTF Central Europe in Ljubljana. In September 2018, MTF took part in Stockholm, Sweden. It had more than 500 participants and some prominent artists as guests, including Imogen Heap. MTF is also a proud supporter of women in music and tech. While most music festivals struggle to find enough female representatives and oblige themselves to reach 50% of a female lineup by 2020, MTF achieved that in 2018.
Starting with 2015, the Music Tech Fest is supported by the EU Horizon 2020 project MusicBricks which aims at fostering creative development of new ideas around music technology and supporting pilots which lead to market prototypes. This opens the pathway to reach a wider community of creative SME innovators.[9]
Hack Camp
Music Tech Fest supports the growing hack culture, and promotes it as an important source of creativity. The festival frequently contains its own hackathon, MTF Hack Camp, which runs for 24 hours from Saturday afternoon to Sunday.[10] Like Music Hack Day events, the MTF hack camp focuses on music-related hack challenges, but with a particular focus on performance with tangible objects, physical concepts and new integrations between software and hardware. There are competitions held at each MTF hack camp where individuals and groups work in response to particular challenges that reflect the themes of each festival. MTF hack camp challenges have engaged with ideas of accessibility (London 2014), fashion and wearables (Paris 2014), and creative spaces (Berlin 2014).
The festivals in London and Umeå also involve a Kids Hack which Andrew Dubber discussed in an interview for WebTVspot as an 'opportunity for families and young people to get involved'.[11] The MTF website and YouTube pages show performances from the Kids Hack, of participants presenting simple gestural controllers and instruments. Some of the older 'hackers' showed some more complex projects including a remote controlled Tricopter with a camera which was connected to some video goggles to navigate and film the Tricopters flight.[12]
Trackathon
Similar to a hackathon but for music producers, Music Tech Fest's trackathon gives musicians 24 hours, audio tools and samples with which to make a piece of music adhering to a unique challenge or brief set by the festival. For example, remixing a song by English indie rock band Everything Everything (London 2013) or making a 'sad banger' (Stockholm 2018). At MTF Stockholm the winning tracks were released as an album, the proceeds of which went to the charity Musicians Without Borders.[13]
MTF Umeå 2015 (MTF Scandi)
MTF Scandi took place in Umeå Sweden from the 29–31 May 2015.[14] The festival included presentations and performances from Jon Eades from Abbey Road Red, Abbey Road's new technology and innovation incubator, electronic artist Scanner, Robin Rimbaud and founder of English electronic group 808 State, Graham Massey.[15]
The 24hr Hack Camp had four hack challenges of which there were seven winning teams. Each challenge reflected the values and ideas spread by MTF; the 'Music Things for Music Ecosystems' and 'The Sound Objects in Smart Homes' challenge connected with ideas of collaboration and the Internet of Things, IoT. The Cymatics Challenge aimed to explore the relationships between sonic and visual art through this interdisciplinary medium. The final challenge from MTF Scandi was the 'Music as Communication' which focused on music tools that were communicative and accessible. Four winning teams used the #MusicBricks technologies which, led to the funding and incubation of their projects to develop them further.[16] Incubation was also awarded to the two winning hacks from the 'Music Things for Music Ecosystems' and 'Music as Communication' prizes from Umeå based incubators eXpression, and the final winning Cymatics team were awarded the materials to help with future endeavours.
The Volvo Kids Hack ran on Sunday, led by Siobhan Ramsey of Sandbox Education, with presentations on stage. Young Hackers, aged between 8-12 used tools from Arduino and Bare Conductive to create interactive instruments and musical interfaces.[17]
MTF Scandi also included two new editions, a Jam Camp which lasted the duration of the festival and a Trackathon which ran for a week. The Jam Camp, led by Obi Blanche, was a space for people to try out music technology and play together.[18] This culminated in a Jam performance on stage on the final night of the festival. The trackathon was sponsored by Toontrack and was a competition to create a track using the Toontrack drum packages.[19] The two winners of the challenge, CJ Carr and Matan Berkowitz had their tracks mastered and released on Bandcamp by members of the judging panel including Vince Lynch, Pascal Guyon and Phonat (Michele Balduzzi).[20] All money raised went to a charity supporting artists suffering from depression.
MTF Scandi was held at Sliperiet - a co-creative space in Umeå Arts Campus where MTF is based, alongside many other creative enterprises.[21] Throughout the weekend, organisations from Sliperiet put on sound installations around the upper floors of the building. These included ‘The Voice Harvester’ by Swedish ICT Interactive,[22] ‘Audification of Absence’ by Willem Zwagers,[23] and ‘Bubble Room Instrument’, ‘Bridging Realities Collaborative’, ‘Untitled 5:22mins’ and ‘Silent Forest’ by JAQ. There were also two installations on the ground floor from outside of Sliperiet; James Brewster's Electro Acoustic Cafe,[24] and ‘The Worlds Biggest Midi Controller’ by Hakan Lidbo.[25]
There was also a gamification workshop on Saturday, which led to the development of the CreaCity platform for the city of Umeå, Sweden. CreaCity was released as part of the European SPECIFI project to develop tools for engagement with city culture and local businesses.[26]
Sponsors and partners of MTF Scandinavia include; 4Sound, Bare Conductive, Beer Studio, Costas of Sweden, Electronic Sound, Drake Music, Guitars – the Museum, Hansson & Hammar, HUMlab Umeå, Kulturverket, Jays, Kitmonsters, Laser Unicorns, Musikanten, Sliperiet Umeå Universitet, Sonos, Soundation, SoundCloud, Spendrups, Swedbank, Teenage Engineering, Tiljan, Toontrack, U & Me Hotel, Umeå University, Umeå kommun, Umenet, Uminova Innovation, Uminova eXpression, Visit Umeå, Volvo, Warner Music Group, topi, YNK Produktion, Ninja Tune.[27]
MTF Ljubljana 2015 (MTF Central)
From the 18–21 September 2015 MTF held #MTFCentral at Cankarjev Dom and +MSUM, the Museum of Modern Art (Ljubljana), in Ljubljana Slovenia.[28] The festival ran in partnership with Earzoom Sonic Arts Festival, IRZU. The festival included performances from producers and musicians Graham Massey, Håkan Lidbo, composer and musician Nitin Sawhney, composer and beatboxer Reeps One, composer and professor Rolf Gehlhaar and more.[29]
The festival included a 24hr Hack Camp combining light and sound technologies, art and performances.[30]
There was also a Jam Camp at #MTFCentral led by the founder of the Ninja Tune record label, Matt Black.[31]
On the last day there was held a #MTFResearch symposium.
MTF Berlin 2016
The 10th festival by Music Tech Fest was MTF Berlin which took place in Berlin Germany from the 27–30 May 2016.[32] The event was held in a large broadcasting hall called Funkhaus at the Rundfunk der DDR. There were many performances held during this festival by various artists including Eska (singer), Emika, Mechanical Techno Graham Dunning, the bionic pop artist Viktoria Modesta, the Swedish composer and instrument maker Martin Molin, the robot lego band TOA Mata Band and more.[33]
The festival followed the launch of the first week-long MTF Labs that focused on Transhumanism, Blockchain, Vocal Tech and Hack the Audience.
As previous festivals, MTF Berlin also included a 24hr Hack Camp. Farnell element14 supplied the camp with components and Benjamin Heckendorn joined the event and recorded an episode of the Ben Heck Show on site.[34] The themes of the hack camp were Music as an Extension of the Human Body, Mod Devices Linux Challenge, Giant Steps and Hack the Bus. The winner was Electronic Jungles who paired the #MTFBricks R-IoT board with components to make a performance using fashion wearable technologies, animal masks, gesture-driven music and reactive visuals.[35]
MTF Berlin also included a Trackathon led by Ian Wallman, a nominee of the Ivor Novello Awards and remixer of Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and others, coached a group of 12 electronic producers to create a dance track in 24 hours.[36]
MTF Stockholm 2018
MTF Stockholm took place in Stockholm Sweden from the 7–9 September 2018. The showcase was held at KTH Royal Institute of Technology[37] with performances from musicians and record producers Håkan Lidbo, Jan Bang, Graham Massey and more.
MTF Stockholm had a 24hr Hack Camp led by technologist, TV presenter, sound designer, inventor and NASA datanaut LJ Rich.
Tekla, a techfestival founded by Swedish artist Robyn and KTH, held a dancing robotics workshop for young teenage girls at MTF Stockholm.[38]
The British artist and polymath Imogen Heap participated in many areas of MTF Stockholm. Heap led a Mycelia Blockchain Labs during the week-long #MTFLabs leading up to the festival and at the festival a Creative passport exhibition with Mycelia experience. Heap also led a Mini.Mu session at the festival directed to families which involved making your own Mi.Mu glove.[39][40][41]
MTF Stockholm ran a 24hr Trackathon led by the English producer Laura Bettinson (also known as FEMME). The task was to create a 'sad banger' were the winning track was 'Cold' by Ruben Svensson (producer) and Nina Butler. The best tracks were selected and released as an EP were all the profits gained were donated to the charity Musicians Without Borders by the winners choice.[42]
MTF Örebro 2019
MTF Pula 2019
Festival contributors
Contributors to the festival have included: IRCAM, The London Symphony Orchestra, SoundCloud, Mixcloud, The BBC, EMI, RCA Records, Shazam, Last.fm, Ableton, Native Instruments, Izotope, FXpansion, RS Components, RjDj, WIRED, MTV, Microsoft Research, Cisco, Stephen Fry/Penguin, EU Commission, DMIC, British Council, Sound and Music, MTG, Fraunhofer Society, BCU, MIT Media Lab, Berklee College of Music, McGill, Goldsmiths, Royal College of Art, Ninja Tune, Warp, The Echo Nest, MusicBrainz, Reactable, Jamie Cullum, Tim Exile, Leafcutter John.
Media coverage
- TNW (website) covered MTF London 2012 [43]
- Sandbox Education covered Kids Hacks in London[44]
and Umeå[44]
- Startacus covered MTF London[45]
- Openstage covered Music Tech Fest London 2013[46]
- The 405 covered an interview with Festival Director Andrew Dubber following Music Tech Fest London 2013[47]
- DesignSpark, RS Components covered Music Tech Fest London 2014[48]
- Radio New Zealand National covered Music Tech Fest Wellington[49]
- Microsoft New England: Music Tech Fest Hits Cambridge This Weekend – Let's Invent the Future of Music[50]
- Boston Herald covered Music Tech Fest Boston[51]
- Sound of Boston covered MTF Boston [52]
- BBC Click has covered Music Tech Fest events in Boston[53]
- Nialler9 covered Music Tech Fest London 2014[54]
- Creative Works London covered Music Tech Fest London 2014[55]
- Sound Stuff covered Music Tech Fest London 2014[56]
- Production Advice covered Music Tech Fest London 2014[57]
- Perlimpinpin Designers covered Music Tech Fest London 2014[58]
- Electronic Product Design & Test covered MTF London 2014 [59]
- Stromkult covered MTF Berlin 2014 [60]
- RS Group plc wrote about their collaboration with MTF London 2014 [61]
- France 24 reported on Music Tech Fest Paris[62]
- Electronic Sound Magazine covered MTF Scandinavia[63]
- Västerbottens-Kuriren published a TV interview with Festival Director Andrew Dubber in preparation for Music Tech Fest Scandinavia[64]
- Umeå University covered Music Tech Fest Scandinavia[65]
- Re-compose covered Music Tech Fest Scandinavia[66]
- Startsida covered Music Tech Fest Scandinavia[67]
- Umeå Universitet wrote about hosting MTF Umeå.[68]
- Protein covered Music Tech Fest Scandinavia[69]
- Elektra music covered MTF Ljubljana [70]
- Radiona covered their contribution to MTF Umeå [71]
- Integra.io wrote about their experience of MTF Ljubljana [72]
- The British Music collection announced the sharing of their dataset with hackers at MTF Berlin 2016 [73]
- Radio New Zealand interviewed Michela Magas and Andrew Dubber about MTF [74]
- Synthtopia covered MTF Berlin 2016 [75]
- Creative Digital Music covered MTF Berlin 2016 [76]
- Electronic Beats covered MTF Berlin 2016 [77]
- Ars Electronica covered their contribution to MTF Ljubljana [78]
- Music Pool Berlin covered MTF Berlin 2016 [79]
- GQ covered Viktoria Modesta's show at MTF Berlin 2016 [80]
- Ask Audio covered MTF Berlin 2016 [81]
- Skoog Music wrote about their experience at MTF Berlin 2016 [82]
- Makery covered MTF Berlin 2016 [83]
- Element 14 covered their Hack Camp at MTF Berlin 2016 [84]
- element14's Ben Heck Show covered MTF Berlin 2016 [85]
- ZKM covered MTF Labs Karlsruhe [86]
- New Music Strategies covered MTF Stockholm.[87]
- Mast Module wrote about their experience at MTF Stockholm [88]
- Medium featured MTF on their list of Tech-Forward Music Festivals [89]
- Jazziz covered the top innovators at MTF Stockholm [90]
- Swedish Institute covered MTF Stockholm [91]
- BBC World Service covered MTF Stockholm [92]
- Teusto covered MTF Stockholm [93]
- Delamar covered MTF Frankfurt [94]
- AI Sweden covered MTF Örebro [95]
- Musik Media covered MTF Frankfurt [96]
- Sound & Recording wrote about the trackathon at MTF Frankfurt [97]
- Infobip covered MTF Labs Pula [98]
- Insider published a press release from MTF Labs Pula [99]
- ICT Istria covered MTF Pula [100]
- Smart Cities covered MTF Aveiro 2020 [101]
- Örebro University wrote about hosting MTF Örebro [102]
- Câmara Municipal de Aveiro covered MTF Labs Aveiro 2020 [103]
- Aveiro2027 covered MTF Aveiro 2020 [104]
- Selected By Sesamers featured MTF on their 2021 list of best Music Tech Conferences.[105]
- Litoral Magazine covered Aveiro 2021 [106]
- Cultura Portugal covered MTF Aveiro 2022 [107]
- AveiroMag covered MTF Labs Aveiro 2022 [108]
- Notícias de Aveiro covered MTF Labs Aveiro 2022 [109]
- PPorto.pt covered MTF Labs Aveiro 2022 [110]
- O Jornal Económico covered MTF Labs Aveiro 2022 [111]
- Universidade de Aveiro covered MTF Labs Aveiro 2022 [112]
- Jornal de Notícias covered MTF Labs Aveiro 2022 [113]
See also
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