New Interfaces for Musical Expression

International conference

Three musicians playing hydraulophone, an instrument that is similar to a woodwind instrument but makes sound from incompressible fluid (water) rather than compressible fluid (air). Photo from concert programme of the NIME-07 conference in New York City.

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:

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

1. "Nime 2008, 8th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression". Archived from the original on 2008-11-07. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
2. "NIME++ 2010 International Conference". Educ.dab.uts.edu.au. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
3. "New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2012, University of Michigan". Archived from the original on 2014-07-18. Retrieved 2011-09-16.
4. "EMDM » NIME 2015". Emdm.cct.lsu.edu. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-01-11. Retrieved 2016-01-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. "NIME 2017 | New Interfaces for Musical Expression". Nime2017.org. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
7. "NIME Conference 2018". Nime2018.icat.vt.edu. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
8. "New Interfaces for Musical Expression | NIME 2019". Ufrgs.br. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
9. "NIME2020". Nime2020.bcu.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
10. "NIME 2021". Nime2021.org. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
11. "NIME 2022". Nime2022.org. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
12. "NIME 2023". Nime2023.org. Retrieved 2024-02-24.

Further reading

• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Lyons, Michael, eds. (2017). A NIME Reader: Fifteen Years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Current Research in Systematic Musicology. Vol. 3. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47214-0. ISBN 978-3-319-47214-0.
• 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 Archived 2015-03-21 at the Wayback Machine.” 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.