Dreeemwave at Athens Music Week 2026

Dreeemwave was part of Athens Music Week 2026, the international music conference & showcase festival of South-Eastern Europe, bringing together music industry professionals, artists, and tastemakers from across the globe. Alex Stamatiadis presented in two sessions during the event, each exploring a very different, yet deeply interconnected, dimension of life in the music industry.

The first appearance came on the second day of the conference, as part of Built for Music: Tools, Ideas and Real-World Solutions, a live show-and-tell hosted by Becky Brook and Sakis Triantafyllakis, dedicated to tools shaping the future of the music business. Alongside innovators working across music discovery, audience intelligence, and live performance, Alex presented Bassliner to a fully packed room, demonstrating how algorithmic music generation, grounded in research on musical cognition, can serve as a genuine creative tool for producers and composers in the real world.

The second session was a different kind of conversation altogether. Under Pressure: What We Don't See, held at the Goethe Library and moderated by psychologist and music researcher Julie Galatoula, brought together voices from across the musical ecosystem to speak openly about what life in the industry actually feels like, beyond the stage lights and the finished recordings. Alex joined pop star Evangelia (FATE Records / Minos EMI), artist manager Themis Gkiosasi (Minos EMI), and classical violinist and singer Kalliopi Mitropoulou, for a candid dialogue about the pressures, contradictions and uncertainties that artists and entrepreneurs navigate every day.

The discussion touched on what it means to wear multiple hats as a music maker, developer and a business owner, while managing expectations, creative doubt, and the relentless demands of sustaining a career in an industry that rarely shows its harder edges. It was a unique and valuable space: honest, unscripted, and long overdue. Athens Music Week continues to be one of the most important platforms for this kind of dialogue, and we are proud to have been part of it.