New Interfaces for Musical Expression, also known as NIME, is an international

conference A conference is a meeting of two or more experts to discuss and exchange opinions or new information about a particular topic. Conferences can be used as a form of group decision-making, although discussion, not always decisions, are the main p ...

dedicated to scientific research on the development of new technologies and their role in

musical expression Musical expression is the art of playing or singing with a personal response to the music. At a practical level, this means making appropriate use of dynamics (music), dynamics, Musical phrasing, phrasing, timbre and Articulation (music), articulat ...

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

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, with the concert and demonstration sessions being held at the

Experience Music Project The Museum of Pop Culture or MoPOP is a nonprofit museum in Seattle, Washington, dedicated to contemporary popular culture. It was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2000 as the Experience Music Project. Since then MoPOP has organized ...

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 Open Sound Control (OSC) is a protocol for networking sound synthesizers, computers, and other multimedia devices for purposes such as musical performance or show control. OSC's advantages include interoperability, accuracy, flexibility and enhan ...

) * 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 *

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and

actuator An actuator is a component of a machine that is responsible for moving and controlling a mechanism or system, for example by opening a valve. In simple terms, it is a "mover". An actuator requires a control device (controlled by control signal) a ...

technologies for musical applications * Haptic and force feedback devices for musical control *

Real-time computing Real-time computing (RTC) is the computer science term for hardware and software systems subject to a "real-time constraint", for example from event to system response. Real-time programs must guarantee response within specified time constrai ...

tools and interactive systems * Pedagogical applications of new interfaces - Courses and curricula

Other related conferences

Other similarly themed conferences include *

International Computer Music Conference The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) is a yearly international conference for computer music researchers and composers. It is the annual conference of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA). History In 1986, the Inst ...

(ICMC); *

ACM Multimedia ACM Multimedia (ACM-MM) is the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)'s annual conference on multimedia, sponsored by the SIGMM on multimedia in the ACM. SIGMM specializes in the field of multimedia computing, from underlying technologies to ...

Sound and music computing Sound and music computing (SMC) is a research field that studies the whole sound and music communication chain from a multidisciplinary point of view. By combining scientific, technological and artistic methodologies it aims at understanding, model ...

(SMC)

References

External links

Official websiteIndex to NIME Conference Proceedings
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History

Areas of application

Other related conferences

See also

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