Global InformationMTF Labs information
| MTF Labs / Music Tech Fest | |
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 Organisation logo | |
| 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 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The first MTF Labs took place at Music Tech Fest Berlin in 2016.[3] In 2018, MTF Labs superseded Music Tech Fest to become the main activity.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 a UK design company 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.[citation needed]
- ^ "MTF Labs". MTF Labs.
- ^ "MTF Labs". Aveiro Tech City.
- ^ "MTF Berlin 2016". MTF Labs.
- ^ "MTF Labs AB". allabolag.se.