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
See also
References
Further reading
- Allen, Jamie. âÂÂReview of NIME 2005.â Computer Music Journal 30/1 (Spring 2006).
- Taylor, Gregory. "On the Road: NIME 2017"
- Lehrman, Paul D. âÂÂTomorrow's Virtuosi & What TheyâÂÂll Be Playing: A report from the fifth New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 2005 .â Sound on Sound.
- Poupyrev, Ivan, Lyons, Michael J., Fels, Sidney, Blaine, Tina (Bean). "New Interfaces for Musical Expression." ACM CHI'01, Extended Abstracts, pp. 491âÂÂ492, 2001.
- Pritchard, Bob. âÂÂ[Report] NIME 2010 .â eContact! 12.4 â Perspectives on the Electroacoustic Work / Perspectives sur lâÂÂÃ
Âuvre électroacoustique (August 2010). Montréal: CEC.
- Richardson, Patrick. âÂÂInnovative New Digital Instruments: NIME Conference Multimedia Mega-Report.â Extensive report on NIME07. Create Digital Music blog. Posted 25 June 2007.
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