New Interfaces for Musical Expression, also known as NIME, is an international
conference dedicated to scientific research on the development of new technologies and their role in
musical expression and artistic performance.
History
The conference began as a workshop (NIME 01) at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in 2001 in
Seattle, Washington, with the concert and demonstration sessions being held at the
Experience Music Project museum. Since then, international conferences have been held annually around the world:
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New Interfaces for Musical Expression." ACM CHI'01, Extended Abstracts, pp. 491–492, 2001.
Pritchard, Bob. “
[Report] NIME 2010.” eContact! 12.4 — Perspectives on the Electroacoustic Work / Perspectives sur l’œuvre électroacoustique (August 2010). Montréal:
CEC.