We look at the rise of casual, mobile-first tools aimed at democratizing the experience of creating music, challenging what it means to be a “music producer” in 2024, from AI music generators to mobile DAWs and everything in between.

Music industry pundits often talk about the rise of independent artists when it comes to recorded music. Luminate’s most recent report confirms that by almost any metric indie artists are growing faster than their major label counterparts. Is the independent music publishing sector seeing the same trends? How are indie publishers grappling with DSP trends that devalue songs? In this wide-ranging discussion, we’ll hear from three of the biggest players in the music publishing sector on the state of the business from an independent point of view.

Industry headlines are sounding the alarm on how generative AI is going to replace artists and songwriters, but the reality of AI’s impact on the creative process is a lot more nuanced than that. This panel will examine how AI is impacting music creation from the creators’ point of view.