[PD-announce] NIME 2020: Call for Participation

[JRDooley]

Call for Participation: New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2020, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK

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.

Topics
Original contributions are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following topics:

    Musical interfaces designed by/with disabled/neurodiverse musicians
    Musical interfaces in/as education
    Increasing musical choices for disabled musicians through new accessible interfaces
    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
    Strategies that improve the reach and replicability of one-off accessible instrument projects, particularly those that are unlikely to have full commercial potential
    Musical interfaces tailored to formally trained musicians
    Novel controllers, interfaces or instruments for musical expression
    Augmented, embedded and hyper instruments
    Technologies or systems for collaborative music-making
    Mobile music-making
    Music-related human-computer interaction and mapping strategies
    Sensor and actuator technologies, including haptics and force feedback devices
    Explorations of relationships between motion, gesture and music
    Evaluation and user studies of new interfaces for musical expression or commercially available “off the shelf” interfaces
    Musical robotics
    Interactive sound art and installations
    Performance rendering and generative algorithms
    Machine learning in musical performance
    Artificial intelligence and new interfaces for musical expression
    Web-based and/or telematic 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
    Supporting cultural diversity through musical interfaces
    Discussions about the artistic, cultural, and social impact of new interfaces
    Pedagogical perspectives or reports on student projects in the framework of NIME-related courses
    Practice-based research approaches/methodologies/criticism relating to the use of musical interfaces


Important Dates

    24 January 2020: Paper, Poster, Music, Installation and Workshops submission deadline
    31 January 2020: Final submission upload deadline (no extension)
    15-22 March 2020: Notification of acceptances/rejections
    22 March 2020: Early Bird Registration Opens
    10 April 2020: Non-Paper Demo submission deadline
    15 April 2020: Camera-ready submission and presenter registration deadline
    30 April 2020: Early-bird registration deadline
    21 July 2020: Pre-conference workshops
    22-24 July 2020: The conference
    25 July 2020: The unconference

More information about the conference can be found at nime202.bcu.ac.uk <http://nime202.bcu.ac.uk/>

NIME 2020 Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Organising Committee
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