Bringing together artists, organisers, technologists, venue operators, and cultural workers, Rethinking Music Ecosystems is an ongoing CTM festival thread. With this new collaboration with Resident Advisor, the strand takes new shape with a one-day programme that looks at how global electronic scenes are responding to mounting pressure from platform monopolies, venue closures, political instability, and economic precarity. As traditional industry models prove inadequate to these pressures, scenes across the globe are developing alternative approaches, from cooperative ownership structures and solidarity economies to decentralised technologies and community-owned spaces. 

This collaborative programme between Resident Advisor and CTM Festival examines emerging practices not as idealistic alternatives, but as pragmatic responses to shared systemic pressures that affect everyone in the ecosystem. Through talks and roundtable discussions with artists, organisers, technologists, and cultural workers, the conference focuses on practical and collective strategies for sustaining independent cultures under strain and building resilient models for the next generation of electronic music communities.

Co-curated by Resident Advisor and CTM Festival.