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OPERATION TON is not one event in 2026/27, but many: Pop Moves 2026, five satellite events and a joint convention day will set the Music Future Convention in motion over several months. You have arrived here at the ticket shop for How do you actually make a living? Important income sources every musician should know. You can find the full schedule with all dates, formats and information on our website.Fees, royalties, commissions, merchandise, side jobs, funding, Grandma, streaming, fan funding: Most music professionals do not live on one source of income, but many. Yet they often lack the time, knowledge or simply the overview to really understand their own cash flow, retirement planning and sustainable structures.How do you actually make a living? is about honest figures, good ideas and how the two can work together. What can realistically be budgeted? What remains? And how can models such as memberships, crowdfunding, cooperatives or communities of responsibility strengthen your own practice?Alongside practical input on cash flow, business structures and retirement planning, there will be space to organize your own situation, ask questions and develop new approaches together. The best idea of the evening will receive an implementation prize on the convention day in the form of a sum of money to put it into practice.For self-employed musicians, bands, DJs, producers and music professionals at all career stages.

OPERATION TON is not one event in 2026/27, but many: Pop Moves 2026, five satellite events and a joint convention day will set the Music Future Convention in motion over several months. You have arrived here at the ticket shop for Studio & Production – Good song. Now what? New paths for production, release and reach. You can find the full schedule with all dates, formats and information on our website.The song is ready. Maybe even the recording. And then? Studio, team, release, rights, compensation, marketing, partners and the question of whether you really have to make a new Reel every week so that your music reaches anyone at all.Between a good song and a coherent release lie many decisions that small artists often have to make alone. Studio & Production asks: How can a good song become a release that fits artistically, is organized fairly and reaches the right people? Which production and release paths suit your music? What role does AI play? And how can you do marketing without TikTok and Instagram suddenly devouring your entire artistic identity?Insights into studio workflows, production and release planning await you. In working sessions, talks and at rotating tables with producers and professionals from labels, publishing, sync and management, you can ask your questions and find out what suits you and your music. Bold strategies, fair collaboration, good songs, great people. That gives us something to work with.