Alfons Karabuda

When Tradition Becomes a Liability

The UK as a warning sign? For decades, the UK music industry was a global benchmark.Songwriting craft. Cultural authority. Export power. But at some point, tradition...

Creating Music in an Age of (In)Visibility

Why discovery is changing faster than copyright — and how creators are finally catching up For more than a decade, creators have lived with a...

Someone Took It All—and Didn’t Even Have to Pick the Locks

I’ve spent most of my professional life representing composers and creators across borders, platforms, and technological shifts. I’ve sat through enough panels, task forces,...

If You Don’t Speak the New Gatekeepers’ Language, How Will You Ever Be Heard?

AI assistants are quietly becoming the new gatekeepers of music discovery. Yet for most of us, creators, it’s as if we simply don’t exist....

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…”

Dickens, of course, did not have streaming services—or the slow erosion of musical diversity—in mind when he opened A Tale of Two Cities with those immortal...