New Interfaces for Musical Expression, also known as NIME, is an international conference dedicated to scientific research on the development of new technologies and their role in musical expression and artistic performance.
History The conference began as a workshop (NIME 01) at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in 2001 in Seattle, Washington, with the concert and demonstration sessions being held at the Experience Music Project museum. Since then, international conferences have been held annually around the world: +NIME Location by YearYearHost InstitutionCityCountry2001ACM CHI'01 and Experience Music ProjectSeattleUSA2002Media Lab EuropeDublinIreland2003McGill UniversityMontrealCanada2004Shizuoka University of Art and CultureHamamatsuJapan2005University of British ColumbiaVancouverCanada2006IRCAMParisFrance2007Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York University's Music Technology Program and the Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the ArtsNew York CityUSA2008Infomus Lab at the University of GenovaGenoaItaly2009Carnegie Mellon School of MusicPittsburghUSA2010University of Technology, SydneySydneyAustralia2011University of OsloOsloNorway2012University of MichiganAnn ArborUSA2013Graduate School of Culture Technology at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)Daejeon;SeoulSouth Korea2014Goldsmiths UniversityLondonUK2015Louisiana State UniversityBaton RougeUSA2016Griffith UniversityBrisbaneAustralia2017Aalborg UniversityCopenhagenDenmark2018Virginia Tech and the University of VirginiaBlacksburgUSA2019Federal University of Rio Grande do SulPorto AlegreBrazil2020Royal Birmingham Conservatoirevirtual conference, due to COVID-192021NYU ShanghaiShanghai; virtualChina2022University of AucklandAuckland; virtualNew Zealand2023Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and Universidad Autónoma MetropolitanaMexico City; virtualMexico
Areas of application The following is a partial list of topics covered by the NIME conference: Design reports on novel controllers and interfaces for musical expression Performance experience reports on live performance and composition using novel controllers Controllers for virtuosic performers, novices, education and entertainment Perceptual & cognitive issues in the design of musical controllers Movement, visual and physical expression with sonic expressivity Musical mapping algorithms and intelligent controllers Novel controllers for collaborative performance Interface protocols for musical control (e.g. Open Sound Control) Artistic, cultural, and social impact of new performance interfaces Real-time gestural control in musical performance Mapping strategies and their influence on digital musical instrument design Sensor and actuator technologies for musical applications Haptic and force feedback devices for musical control Real-time computing tools and interactive systems Pedagogical applications of new interfaces - Courses and curricula
Other related conferences Other similarly themed conferences include International Computer Music Conference (ICMC); ACM Multimedia Sound and music computing (SMC)
See also Live coding List of electronic music festivals Experimental musical instrument – about several alternative instruments.
References
Further reading
Allen, Jamie. “Review of NIME 2005.” Computer Music Journal 30/1 (Spring 2006). Taylor, Gregory. "On the Road: NIME 2017" Lehrman, Paul D. “Tomorrow's Virtuosi & What They’ll Be Playing: A report from the fifth New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 2005 .” Sound on Sound. Poupyrev, Ivan, Lyons, Michael J., Fels, Sidney, Blaine, Tina (Bean). "New Interfaces for Musical Expression." ACM CHI'01, Extended Abstracts, pp. 491–492, 2001. Pritchard, Bob. “[Report] NIME 2010 .” eContact! 12.4 — Perspectives on the Electroacoustic Work / Perspectives sur l’œuvre électroacoustique (August 2010). Montréal: CEC. Richardson, Patrick. “Innovative New Digital Instruments: NIME Conference Multimedia Mega-Report.” Extensive report on NIME07. Create Digital Music blog. Posted 25 June 2007.
External links
Official website Index to NIME Conference Proceedings . From Trier University’s DBLP database.