New Interfaces for Musical Expression

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| abbreviation = NIME

| discipline = Electronic music

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| history = 2001–present

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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:

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|+NIME Location by Year

!Year

!Host Institution

!City

!Country

2001

|ACM CHI'01 and Experience Music Project

|Seattle

|USA

2002

|Media Lab Europe

|Dublin

|Ireland

2003

|McGill University

|Montreal

|Canada

2004

|Shizuoka University of Art and Culture

|Hamamatsu

|Japan

2005

|University of British Columbia

|Vancouver

|Canada

2006

|IRCAM

|Paris

|France

2007

|Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York University's Music Technology Program and the Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts

|New York City

|USA

2008{{Cite web |url=http://nime2008.casapaganini.org/ |title=Nime 2008, 8th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression |access-date=2008-12-03 |archive-date=2008-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081107054939/http://nime2008.casapaganini.org/ |url-status=dead }}

|[http://www.infomus.dist.unige.it/ Infomus Lab] at the University of Genova

|Genoa

|Italy

2009

|Carnegie Mellon School of Music

|Pittsburgh

|USA

2010{{Cite web|url=http://www.educ.dab.uts.edu.au/nime/|title=NIME++ 2010 International Conference|website=Educ.dab.uts.edu.au|access-date=28 June 2022}}

|University of Technology, Sydney

|Sydney

|Australia

2011

|University of Oslo

|Oslo

|Norway

2012{{Cite web |url=http://www.eecs.umich.edu/nime2012/ |title=New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2012, University of Michigan |access-date=2011-09-16 |archive-date=2014-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718081636/http://www.eecs.umich.edu/nime2012/ |url-status=dead }}

|University of Michigan

|Ann Arbor

|USA

2013

|Graduate School of Culture Technology at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

|Daejeon;Seoul

|South Korea

2014

|Goldsmiths University

|London

|UK

2015{{Cite web|url=https://emdm.cct.lsu.edu/happenings/nime2015/|title=EMDM » NIME 2015|website=Emdm.cct.lsu.edu|access-date=28 June 2022}}

|Louisiana State University

|Baton Rouge

|USA

2016{{Cite web |url=http://nime2016.org/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-01-04 |archive-date=2016-01-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160111054557/http://nime2016.org/ |url-status=dead }}

|Griffith University

|Brisbane

|Australia

2017{{Cite web|url=http://www.nime2017.org/|title=NIME 2017 | New Interfaces for Musical Expression|website=Nime2017.org|access-date=28 June 2022}}

|Aalborg University

|Copenhagen

|Denmark

2018{{Cite web|url=http://nime2018.icat.vt.edu/|title=NIME Conference 2018|website=Nime2018.icat.vt.edu|access-date=28 June 2022}}

|Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia

|Blacksburg

|USA

2019{{Cite web|url=http://www.ufrgs.br/nime2019|title=New Interfaces for Musical Expression | NIME 2019|website=Ufrgs.br|access-date=28 June 2022}}

|Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

|Porto Alegre

|Brazil

2020{{Cite web|title=NIME2020|url=https://nime2020.bcu.ac.uk/|website=Nime2020.bcu.ac.uk|access-date=2021-02-10|language=en-US}}

|Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

| colspan="2" |virtual conference, due to COVID-19

2021{{Cite web|title=NIME 2021|url=http://nime2021.org/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811040815/http://nime2021.org/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=August 11, 2020|access-date=2021-02-10|website=Nime2021.org}}

|NYU Shanghai

|Shanghai; virtual

|China

2022{{Cite web|title=NIME 2022|url=http://nime2022.org/|access-date=2024-02-24|website=Nime2022.org}}

|University of Auckland

|Auckland; virtual

|New Zealand

2023{{Cite web|title=NIME 2023|url=http://nime2023.org/|access-date=2024-02-24|website=Nime2023.org}}

|Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

|Mexico City; virtual

|Mexico

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

References

=Further reading=

{{cite book | editor1-last = Jensenius | editor1-first = Alexander Refsum | editor2-last = Lyons | editor2-first = Michael | title = A NIME Reader: Fifteen Years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression | series = Current Research in Systematic Musicology | url = https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319472133 | year = 2017 | volume = 3 | publisher = Springer | doi = 10.1007/978-3-319-47214-0 | isbn = 978-3-319-47214-0}}
Allen, Jamie. “[https://web.archive.org/web/20110723143636/http://www.heavyside.net/work/2006/reviewofnime2005conference Review of NIME 2005].” Computer Music Journal 30/1 (Spring 2006).
Taylor, Gregory. "[https://cycling74.com/articles/on-the-road-nime-2017 On the Road: NIME 2017]"
Lehrman, Paul D. “[http://www.paul-lehrman.com/NIME/nimeoriginal.html 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] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321042050/http://paul-lehrman.com/NIME/nimeoriginal.html |date=2015-03-21 }}.” Sound on Sound.
Poupyrev, Ivan, Lyons, Michael J., Fels, Sidney, Blaine, Tina (Bean). "[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=634348 New Interfaces for Musical Expression]." ACM CHI'01, Extended Abstracts, pp. 491–492, 2001.
Pritchard, Bob. “[http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/12_4/report_nime2010.html [Report] NIME 2010].” eContact! 12.4 — Perspectives on the Electroacoustic Work / Perspectives sur l’œuvre électroacoustique (August 2010). Montréal: CEC.
Richardson, Patrick. “[http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/06/25/innovative-new-digital-instruments-nime-conference-multimedia-mega-report Innovative New Digital Instruments: NIME Conference Multimedia Mega-Report].” Extensive report on NIME07. Create Digital Music blog. Posted 25 June 2007.

External links

[http://www.nime.org Official website]
[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/nime Index to NIME Conference Proceedings]. From Trier University’s DBLP database.

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