NIME 2023 - MEXICO CITY
New Interfaces for Musical Expression
31 May — 2 June, 2023
Mexico City, Mexico
31 May — 2 June, 2023
Mexico City, Mexico
The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) gathers researchers and musicians from all over the world to share their knowledge and late-breaking work on new musical interface design. The conference started out as a workshop at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in 2001. Since then, an annual series of international conferences have been held around the world, hosted by research groups dedicated to interface design, human-computer interaction, and computer music.
In 2023, NIME will be back in North America, back in Latin America and back to its physical format in Mexico City. However, we will also provide hybrid support for those who cannot attend the conference in person.
Theme: "Frugal Music Innovation"
Since the early years of the foundation of Tenochtitlán (present day Mexico City) around 1325, the Mexicas or Aztecs increased the amount of cultivable land by the use of Chinampas, artificial islands that were created by interweaving reeds with stakes beneath the lake's surface, creating underwater fences. This attitude of solving problems with the available resources became common among Mexico City's inhabitants after the different floods, pandemics, wars and economic crisis that have hit the city along its history. That is probably why the Hacker & Maker movements have been well-received by Mexican young generations.
Because of this, the selection of "Frugal Music Innovation" as the Theme for NIME 2023 is an invitation to all researchers, technologists, musicians, artists and people with a cross-disciplinary background worldwide to show how innovation can be possible and replicable by anybody (and ideally by everybody) with resources that can be easily affordable and available, and that this frugal innovation can also be possible in the creation of New Interfaces for Musical Expression. We encourage everyone to propose topics where there are some (ideally most) of the Core Competencies of the Frugal Innovation Hub adopted by the Frugal Innovation Latin American Network(Spanish version) & the Frugal Innovation Hub from Santa Clara University (English version).
These competencies/characteristics are:
Human-Centric
Simple
Rugged
Mobile
Last-mile distribution
Local
Affordable
Green
Adaptable
Lightweight
Besides the aforementioned characteristics, original contributions are encouraged in, but not limited to the following topics:
Novel controllers, interfaces or instruments for musical expression
Augmented, embedded and hyper instruments
Technologies or systems for collaborative music-making
New performance paradigms for mobile music-making
Music-related human-computer interaction
Sensor and actuator technologies, including haptics and force feedback devices
Musical mapping strategies
Explorations of relationships between motion, gesture and music
Evaluation and user studies of new interfaces for musical expression
Evaluation and user studies of commercially available “off the shelf” interfaces
Interfaces for musical expression for people with special needs
Musical applications of robotics
Interactive sound art and installations
Performance rendering and generative algorithms
Machine learning in musical performance
Web-based music performance
Software frameworks, interface protocols, and data formats, for supporting musical interaction
Historical, theoretical or philosophical discussions about designing or performing with new interfaces
Discussions about the artistic, cultural, and social impact of NIME technology
Sonic interaction design
Pedagogical perspectives or reports on student projects in the framework of NIME-related courses
Practice-based research approaches/methodologies/criticism
Music-related human-computer interaction
User studies and evaluations of NIMEs
Interactive sound art and sound installations
New music performance paradigms
Gesture to sound mapping
Sonic interaction design
Musical robotics
Sensor and actuator technologies for NIMEs
Interface protocols and data formats supporting musical interaction
Machine learning and artificial intelligence in NIMEs
Pedagogical perspectives and/or student projects in NIME-related courses