Call 2017 #

http://www.nime2017.org

Introduction #

NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) is the premier conference in designing human-machine interfaces and interactions for musical performance. NIME gathers researchers and practitioners together for lectures, installations, concerts, and workshops.

NIME 2017 will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 15-19 May 2017. http://www.nime2017.org

Call for Participation #

On behalf of the NIME 2017 Committee, we would like to invite you to be part of the 17th international conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. We invite submission of new works in the following categories:

Important Dates #

Submit Online #

All submissions to NIME 2017 are managed via a conference system. Details will be announced soon.

Process #

Submissions that extend, stretch, or challenge the NIME topics and themes are welcome. Submissions should be made at the dedicated submission site.

This year we are encouraging all submissions (including papers) to include a short video, that assists in demonstrating the research claims, performance aesthetic, quality of demonstration, etc. The video should be one minute, H.264 encoded MP4 with 16:9 aspect ratio. See https://chi2017.acm.org/video-submission.html for further instructions on video and note that performance and installation videos can be longer in duration.

Papers, video or program notes from all accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISSN/ISBN reference, and will be archived online after the conference to be tracked by citation tools.

All submissions will be subject to a peer review process by an international expert committee. The review process will be double-blind for all categories [^1].

Call for Papers #

We invite academic papers describing original research on new interfaces for musical expression. Papers should be up to 6 pages in length, formatted according to the paper template provided at http://www.nime2017.org/attend/.

Authors are strongly encouraged to also submit a short video abstract in support of their paper. Submissions must provide an original contribution to NIME research, appropriately cite prior related work, and demonstrate a rigorous research methodology. A manuscript submitted for review cannot be already under review for publication elsewhere or be submitted for a second review elsewhere while under review for NIME 2017.

There are two different paper presentation options:

Please indicate your preferred presentation option during the submission process. The program committee reserves the right to allocate accepted paper submissions into either category regardless of the indicated preference.

A best paper award will be presented to the individual(s) judged by the paper committee to have written the best paper appearing in the conference proceedings.

The templates for submitting papers to the scientific program at NIME 2017 will be provided here.

Call for Demonstrations #

We welcome submissions of original instruments and technologies designed for use as new interfaces for musical expression to be demonstrated during the conference.

Proposals should include a max 2 page description in the NIME paper format (above) and a short video abstract, both of which will appear in the conference proceedings. A 1 page description of technical requirements for the demonstration is also required. The template for technical requirements are provided at http://www.nime2017.org/attend/.

A best demonstration award will be judged by the selection committee and presented to the individual(s) responsible at the conference.

Call for Performances and Installations #

We invite submission of proposals for performances and installations. Novel and exploratory use of new interfaces is encouraged. Proposed performances and installations should have a clear connection with the substance of the NIME conference and may be connected to a poster or demo submission.

Our resident musicians will include the Figura, a top-tier Copenhagen-based new music ensemble, the Electronic Music Machines Musical Instruments (EMMI) ensemble (USA) and the New York Times-celebrated flutist Margaret Lancaster. Evening and lunch concerts and sound installations will be presented at Medialogy, AAU as well as at major cultural institutions around Copenhagen.

Therefore, in addition to the general NIME submissions, we invite proposals that will feature our guest talents with or without an additional interface or performance component:

We will consider submissions of existing works as well as proposals for new ones. Selected composers will work closely with our musicians in realization of the pieces.

The music proposals should include a one-page description, program notes, artist bios, and a 2-3 minute video preview, along with a 1 page description of technical requirements. The video preview will be used for the purposes of review and selection. Video documentation of all performances and installations will occur during the conference, where practicable, and be made available online following the conference.

Please keep in mind the following when preparing performance and installation submissions:

Call for Workshops #

We invite submissions for two categories of workshops.

NIME Workshops :: Targeted at the NIME community and conference delegates. Either half-day (3 hours) or full-day (6 hours). These can be targeted towards specialist techniques, platforms, hardware, software or pedagogical topics for the advancement of fellow NIME-ers and people with experience related to the topic. NIME Workshops will be held at the Aalborg University Copenhagen; with facilities typical of a university media technology department.

Unconference Workshops : Relevant to a broader range of participants. Either short (1 hour) or long (3 hour) workshops targeted toward visitors to the NIME community, novices/newbies, interested student participants, people from other fields, and members of the public getting to know the potential of NIME.

The NIME committee reserves the right to suggest workshop category reallocation if required.

Workshop proposals should clearly indicate the audience and assumed knowledge of their intended participants to help us market to the appropriate audience. Workshops can relate to, but are not limited to, the topics of the conference. This is a good opportunity to explore a specialized interest or interdisciplinary topic in depth with greater time for discourse, debate, and collaboration.

Review Process #

Submissions will go through a rigorous review process. Overall, the review process comprises three layers of evaluation: reviewer, meta-reviewer, and track chairs.

The process is as follows:

Topics #

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

Footnote #

[^1]: NIME, like CHI, will use a relaxed model that does not attempt to conceal all traces of identity from the body of the paper. Authors are expected to keep the template authors as they are, or remove author and institutional identities from the title and header areas of the paper, as noted in the submission instructions (Note: changing the text color of the author information is not sufficient). Also, please make sure that identifying information does not appear in the document’s meta-data (e.g., the ‘Authors’ field in your word processor’s ‘Save As’ dialog box). Further suppression of identity in the body of the paper is left to the authors’ discretion. We do expect that authors leave citations to their previous work unanonymized, so that reviewers can ensure that all previous research has been taken into account by the authors. However, authors are encouraged to cite their own work in the third person, e.g., avoid “As described in our previous work [10], …” and use instead “As described by [10], …”