<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Call for Participation: New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2020, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK<br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We would like to invite you to be part of NIME 2020 – The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. We welcome submissions of original research, both scientific and artistic. A non-exhaustive list of NIME-related topics is found below.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Topics</div><div class="">Original contributions are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following topics:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Musical interfaces designed by/with disabled/neurodiverse musicians</div><div class=""> Musical interfaces in/as education</div><div class=""> Increasing musical choices for disabled musicians through new accessible interfaces</div><div class=""> Easier/cheaper approaches to the design of bespoke accessible instruments (that can be adapted to a user’s requirements), in a world dominated by mass production</div><div class=""> Strategies that improve the reach and replicability of one-off accessible instrument projects, particularly those that are unlikely to have full commercial potential</div><div class=""> Musical interfaces tailored to formally trained musicians</div><div class=""> Novel controllers, interfaces or instruments for musical expression</div><div class=""> Augmented, embedded and hyper instruments</div><div class=""> Technologies or systems for collaborative music-making</div><div class=""> Mobile music-making</div><div class=""> Music-related human-computer interaction and mapping strategies</div><div class=""> Sensor and actuator technologies, including haptics and force feedback devices</div><div class=""> Explorations of relationships between motion, gesture and music</div><div class=""> Evaluation and user studies of new interfaces for musical expression or commercially available “off the shelf” interfaces</div><div class=""> Musical robotics</div><div class=""> Interactive sound art and installations</div><div class=""> Performance rendering and generative algorithms</div><div class=""> Machine learning in musical performance</div><div class=""> Artificial intelligence and new interfaces for musical expression</div><div class=""> Web-based and/or telematic music performance</div><div class=""> Software frameworks, interface protocols, and data formats, for supporting musical interaction</div><div class=""> Historical, theoretical or philosophical discussions about designing or performing with new interfaces</div><div class=""> Supporting cultural diversity through musical interfaces</div><div class=""> Discussions about the artistic, cultural, and social impact of new interfaces</div><div class=""> Pedagogical perspectives or reports on student projects in the framework of NIME-related courses</div><div class=""> Practice-based research approaches/methodologies/criticism relating to the use of musical interfaces</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Important Dates</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> 24 January 2020: Paper, Poster, Music, Installation and Workshops submission deadline</div><div class=""> 31 January 2020: Final submission upload deadline (no extension)</div><div class=""> 15-22 March 2020: Notification of acceptances/rejections</div><div class=""> 22 March 2020: Early Bird Registration Opens</div><div class=""> 10 April 2020: Non-Paper Demo submission deadline</div><div class=""> 15 April 2020: Camera-ready submission and presenter registration deadline</div><div class=""> 30 April 2020: Early-bird registration deadline</div><div class=""> 21 July 2020: Pre-conference workshops</div><div class=""> 22-24 July 2020: The conference</div><div class=""> 25 July 2020: The unconference</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">More information about the conference can be found at <a href="http://nime202.bcu.ac.uk" class="">nime202.bcu.ac.uk</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">NIME 2020 Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Organising Committee</div></body></html>