New Interfaces for Musical Expression
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History
The conference began as a workshop at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in 2001. Since then, international conferences have been held annually around the world. NIME-06, the sixth international conference, was hosted by IRCAMIRCAM
IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...
, Paris, in June 2006. NIME-07 was held in New York City
New York City
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, hosted by the Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York University
New York University
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's Music Technology Program and the Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts
Tisch School of the Arts
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. NIME-08 was hosted by the Infomus Lab at the University of Genova, Italy
Italy
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. NIME-09 was hosted by the Carnegie Mellon School of Music
Carnegie Mellon School of Music
The Carnegie Mellon School of Music in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a degree-granting institution founded in 1912 as a one of five divisions of Carnegie Mellon University's College of Fine Arts....
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. NIME 2010 took place in Sydney
Sydney
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. NIME 2011 was held in Oslo
Oslo
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, Norway
Norway
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. NIME 2012 will be hosted by the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
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.
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 (e.g. MIDI) and alternative controllers
- 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
- SensorSensorA sensor is a device that measures a physical quantity and converts it into a signal which can be read by an observer or by an instrument. For example, a mercury-in-glass thermometer converts the measured temperature into expansion and contraction of a liquid which can be read on a calibrated...
and actuatorActuatorAn actuator is a type of motor for moving or controlling a mechanism or system. It is operated by a source of energy, usually in the form of an electric current, hydraulic fluid pressure or pneumatic pressure, and converts that energy into some kind of motion. An actuator is the mechanism by which...
technologies for musical applications - Haptic and force feedback devices for musical control
- Real-time computingReal-time computingIn computer science, real-time computing , or reactive computing, is the study of hardware and software systems that are subject to a "real-time constraint"— e.g. operational deadlines from event to system response. Real-time programs must guarantee response within strict time constraints...
tools and interactive systems - Pedagogical applications of new interfaces - Courses and curricula
Other related conferences
Other similarly themed conferences include- International Computer Music ConferenceInternational Computer Music ConferenceThe International Computer Music Conference is a yearly international conference for computer music researchers and composers. It is the annual conference of the International Computer Music Association ....
(ICMC); - ACM MultimediaACM MultimediaACM Multimedia is the Association of Computing Machinery 's annual conference on multimedia, sponsored by the SIGMM special interest group....
- Sound and Music Computing (SMC)
External links
- Official website
- NIME 2012 conference website
- Index to NIME Conference Proceedings. From Trier University’s DBLP database.
- NIME group on YouTube. Videos of demos and performances at various editions of NIME.
Further Reading
- Allen, Jamie. “Review of NIME 2005.” Computer Music Journal 30/1 (Spring 2006).
- Lehrman, Paul D. “Tomorrow's Virtuosi & What They’ll Be Playing: A report from the fifth New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference, in Vancouver, Canada, May 2005.” Sound on Sound.
- Pritchard, Bob. “[Report] NIME 2010.” eContact! 12.4 — Perspectives on the Electroacoustic Work / Perspectives sur l’œuvre électroacoustique (August 2010). Montréal: CECCanadian Electroacoustic CommunityFounded in 1986, La Communauté électroacoustique canadienne / The Canadian Electroacoustic Community is Canada’s national electroacoustic / computer music / sonic arts organization and as such is dedicated to promoting this progressive art form in its broadest definition: from “pure” acousmatic...
. - Raskob, Evan. “Phasors Built My Hot Rod.” Documentary film about the NIME course at New York University.
- Richardson, Patrick. “Innovative New Digital Instruments: NIME Conference Multimedia Mega-Report.” Extensive report on NIME07. Create Digital Music blog. Posted 25 June 2007.