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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The conference began as a workshop (NIME 01) at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in 2001 in <a href="/facts/Seattle,_Washington/7lYIrCa6">Seattle, Washington</a>, with the concert and demonstration sessions being held at the <a href="/facts/Experience_Music_Project/S7xkvown">Experience Music Project</a> museum. Since then, international conferences have been held annually around the world: </p> NIME Location by Year<table><tbody><tr><th>Year</th><th>Host Institution</th><th>City</th><th>Country</th></tr><tr><td>2001</td><td>ACM CHI'01 and Experience Music Project</td><td><a href="/facts/Seattle/7lYIrCa6">Seattle</a></td><td>USA</td></tr><tr><td>2002</td><td><a href="/facts/Media_Lab_Europe/2jpAq83c">Media Lab Europe</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Dublin/Fv8ezm8a">Dublin</a></td><td>Ireland</td></tr><tr><td>2003</td><td><a href="/facts/McGill_University/amouytVp">McGill University</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Montreal/uQQaWd1b">Montreal</a></td><td>Canada</td></tr><tr><td>2004</td><td><a href="/facts/Shizuoka_University_of_Art_and_Culture/3w222vep">Shizuoka University of Art and Culture</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Hamamatsu/jpRRjcNR">Hamamatsu</a></td><td>Japan</td></tr><tr><td>2005</td><td><a href="/facts/University_of_British_Columbia/8QCl5YGd">University of British Columbia</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Vancouver/rn2AKA1n">Vancouver</a></td><td>Canada</td></tr><tr><td>2006</td><td><a href="/facts/IRCAM/oe5oKl4I">IRCAM</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Paris/DrNHpwnA">Paris</a></td><td>France</td></tr><tr><td>2007</td><td>Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, <a href="/facts/New_York_University/4UnIkThy">New York University</a>'s Music Technology Program and the Interactive Telecommunications Program in the <a href="/facts/Tisch_School_of_the_Arts/fJ7SwTte">Tisch School of the Arts</a></td><td><a href="/facts/New_York_City/YlyvFmVC">New York City</a></td><td>USA</td></tr><tr><td>2008<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></td><td><a href="http://www.infomus.dist.unige.it/">Infomus Lab</a> at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Genova/UyKuseG3">University of Genova</a></td><td>Genoa</td><td>Italy</td></tr><tr><td>2009</td><td><a href="/facts/Carnegie_Mellon_School_of_Music/CQ5okmuH">Carnegie Mellon School of Music</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Pittsburgh/42yPHyS0">Pittsburgh</a></td><td>USA</td></tr><tr><td>2010<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></td><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Technology,_Sydney/VSa4Jf9I">University of Technology, Sydney</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Sydney/8TegRcwB">Sydney</a></td><td>Australia</td></tr><tr><td>2011</td><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Oslo/uYPDcgpU">University of Oslo</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Oslo/PRJtFYUl">Oslo</a></td><td>Norway</td></tr><tr><td>2012<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></td><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Michigan/6e1Ea5xh">University of Michigan</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Ann_Arbor,_Michigan/hs3CBRJy">Ann Arbor</a></td><td>USA</td></tr><tr><td>2013</td><td>Graduate School of Culture Technology at <a href="/facts/KAIST/vduAr8hs">KAIST</a> (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)</td><td><a href="/facts/Daejeon/uuNK17BW">Daejeon</a>;<a href="/facts/Seoul/H0Xloz9o">Seoul</a></td><td><a href="/facts/South_Korea/pCobAaVw">South Korea</a></td></tr><tr><td>2014</td><td><a href="/facts/Goldsmiths,_University_of_London/s21rMkuw">Goldsmiths University</a></td><td><a href="/facts/London/KozCCsy9">London</a></td><td>UK</td></tr><tr><td>2015<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></td><td><a href="/facts/Louisiana_State_University/yg8S4Tyy">Louisiana State University</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Baton_Rouge/21SGK7VC">Baton Rouge</a></td><td>USA</td></tr><tr><td>2016<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></td><td><a href="/facts/Griffith_University/45G10QEI">Griffith University</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Brisbane/DdUE1VPW">Brisbane</a></td><td>Australia</td></tr><tr><td>2017<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></td><td><a href="/facts/Aalborg_University/JKk90Y0I">Aalborg University</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Copenhagen/58Tl28IX">Copenhagen</a></td><td>Denmark</td></tr><tr><td>2018<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></td><td><a href="/facts/Virginia_Tech/5nNYd0ur">Virginia Tech</a> and the <a href="/facts/University_of_Virginia/SPNDITbg">University of Virginia</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Blacksburg,_Virginia/l9MWy6MS">Blacksburg</a></td><td>USA</td></tr><tr><td>2019<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></td><td><a href="/facts/Federal_University_of_Rio_Grande_do_Sul/uQEmmtpY">Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Porto_Alegre/U0VSlu4v">Porto Alegre</a></td><td>Brazil</td></tr><tr><td>2020<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a></td><td><a href="/facts/Royal_Birmingham_Conservatoire/je7CggDn">Royal Birmingham Conservatoire</a></td><td colspan="2">virtual conference, due to <a href="/facts/Coronavirus_disease_2019/YsUgvsaX">COVID-19</a></td></tr><tr><td>2021<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a></td><td><a href="/facts/New_York_University_Shanghai/7SqJgElh">NYU Shanghai</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Shanghai/nYyuBo2S">Shanghai</a>; virtual</td><td>China</td></tr><tr><td>2022<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></td><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Auckland/J1DeQIhv">University of Auckland</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Auckland/wRcayHa2">Auckland</a>; virtual</td><td>New Zealand</td></tr><tr><td>2023<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a></td><td><a href="/facts/Monterrey_Institute_of_Technology_and_Higher_Education/C7xEkI3I">Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education</a> and <a href="/facts/Universidad_Aut%C3%B3noma_Metropolitana/b3k5sgTh">Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Mexico_City/gEnGxDEd">Mexico City</a>; virtual</td><td>Mexico</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="areas-of-application">Areas of application</h2> <p>The following is a partial list of topics covered by the NIME conference: </p> <ul><li>Design reports on novel controllers and interfaces for musical expression</li> <li>Performance experience reports on live performance and composition using novel controllers</li> <li>Controllers for virtuosic performers, novices, education and entertainment</li> <li>Perceptual & cognitive issues in the design of musical controllers</li> <li>Movement, visual and physical expression with sonic expressivity</li> <li>Musical mapping algorithms and intelligent controllers</li> <li>Novel controllers for collaborative performance</li> <li>Interface protocols for musical control (e.g. <a href="/facts/Open_Sound_Control/DaXNnBk7">Open Sound Control</a>)</li> <li>Artistic, cultural, and social impact of new performance interfaces</li> <li>Real-time gestural control in musical performance</li> <li>Mapping strategies and their influence on digital musical instrument design</li> <li><a href="/facts/Sensor/RN8SXbjs">Sensor</a> and <a href="/facts/Actuator/mF9qVJJR">actuator</a> technologies for musical applications</li> <li><a href="/facts/Haptic_technology/0TuxNUcs">Haptic</a> and force feedback devices for musical control</li> <li><a href="/facts/Real-time_computing/p9HxgL4L">Real-time computing</a> tools and interactive systems</li> <li>Pedagogical applications of new interfaces - Courses and curricula</li></ul> <h2 id="other-related-conferences">Other related conferences</h2> <p>Other similarly themed conferences include </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/International_Computer_Music_Conference/lQchE997">International Computer Music Conference</a> (ICMC);</li> <li><a href="/facts/ACM_Multimedia/8R3X0qd1">ACM Multimedia</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Sound_and_music_computing/15xCwF7H">Sound and music computing</a> (SMC)</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Live_coding/Vf9rTNDJ">Live coding</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_electronic_music_festivals/7Rg5YA8A">List of electronic music festivals</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Experimental_musical_instrument/Rtc36Gzm">Experimental musical instrument</a> – about several alternative instruments.</li></ul> <h3>Further reading</h3> <ul><li>Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Lyons, Michael, eds. (2017). <a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319472133"><i>A NIME Reader: Fifteen Years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression</i></a>. Current Research in Systematic Musicology. Vol. 3. <a href="/facts/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media/nAesf6nT">Springer</a>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-319-47214-0">10.1007/978-3-319-47214-0</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-319-47214-0.</li> <li>Allen, Jamie. “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110723143636/http://www.heavyside.net/work/2006/reviewofnime2005conference">Review of NIME 2005</a>.” <i>Computer Music Journal</i> 30/1 (Spring 2006).</li> <li>Taylor, Gregory. "<a href="https://cycling74.com/articles/on-the-road-nime-2017">On the Road: NIME 2017</a>"</li> <li>Lehrman, Paul D. “<a href="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</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150321042050/http://paul-lehrman.com/NIME/nimeoriginal.html">Archived</a> 2015-03-21 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a>.” <i>Sound on Sound</i>.</li> <li>Poupyrev, Ivan, Lyons, Michael J., Fels, Sidney, Blaine, Tina (Bean). "<a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=634348">New Interfaces for Musical Expression</a>." ACM CHI'01, Extended Abstracts, pp. 491–492, 2001.</li> <li>Pritchard, Bob. “<a href="http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/12_4/report_nime2010.html">[Report] NIME 2010</a>.” <i>eContact! 12.4 — Perspectives on the Electroacoustic Work / Perspectives sur l’œuvre électroacoustique</i> (August 2010). Montréal: <a href="/facts/Canadian_Electroacoustic_Community/Cbk7zQ4R">CEC</a>.</li> <li>Richardson, Patrick. “<a href="http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/06/25/innovative-new-digital-instruments-nime-conference-multimedia-mega-report">Innovative New Digital Instruments: NIME Conference Multimedia Mega-Report</a>.” Extensive report on NIME07. <i>Create Digital Music</i> blog. Posted 25 June 2007.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> Wikimedia Commons has media related to New Interfaces for Musical Expression. <ul><li><a href="http://www.nime.org">Official website</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/nime">Index to NIME Conference Proceedings</a>. From Trier University’s DBLP database.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Nime 2008, 8th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression". Archived from the original on 2008-11-07. Retrieved 2008-12-03. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081107054939/http://nime2008.casapaganini.org/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20081107054939/http://nime2008.casapaganini.org/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"NIME++ 2010 International Conference". Educ.dab.uts.edu.au. 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