Call for Contributions to NIME2025: entangled NIME

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Hello NIMErs! The call for 2025 is out - please see the details below.

We invite you to be a part of NIME2025: entangled NIME, the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. NIME2025 will take place at The Australian National University, Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, Canberra, Australia with support for in-person and remote presentation.

We invite submissions of new scholarly and creative works in the following categories:

  • Paper (6000-, 4000-, and 2000-word lengths)

  • Music (live performance, installation, remote)

  • Workshop

All NIME submissions are made through CMT (link TBA) and use the NIME Template: https://github.com/NIME-conference/nime-template.

We encourage submitters to use the LaTeX templates and tools such as Overleaf where possible.

Submission deadlines are and full information for each category of submission can be found at: https://nime2025.org/call/

We particularly wish to encourage submissions from artists and scholars who are women, queer, or gender diverse, are First Nations people, young/emerging, historically marginalised, have a disability or are Deaf, or who simply work outside of academia and mainstream institutions. We suggest joining the NIME Forum where you are able to get updates and support from the NIME2025 committee and community in developing your submission.

We note that travel is not required to publish and present work at NIME 2025. Decoupling publication and travel supports inclusive participation in our field. The full call website includes requirements and guidance for remote participation. We note that NIME submissions (papers, music, workshops) are subject to the NIME Principles & Code of Practice on Ethical Research and ask all submitters to consider accessibility implications that may be relevant to their proposals. We welcome conversations regarding accessibility potential of submissions.

Important Dates:

All dates are 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)

  • 4 December, 2024: Submission site (CMT) opens

  • 29 January, 2025: Paper and Music - Titles, abstracts and author lists due in CMT

  • 5 February, 2025: Paper and Music - Final submissions due in CMT

  • 19 February, 2025: Workshop submissions due in CMT

  • 2 April, 2025: Acceptance decisions and reviews released

  • 30 April, 2025: Camera ready and presenter registration deadline

  • 24 June, 2025: NIME Workshops

  • 25 - 27 June, 2025: NIME Conference

Submission information for all tracks is available here: https://nime2025.org/submissions/.

If you’d like to register as a NIME reviewer (or are unsure if you’re already a reviewer), please register as a reviewer using this form.

Please visit the conference website for further information: https://nime2025.org

NIME Topics:

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

  • NIME2025 theme: entangled NIME

  • 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

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Hello NIME,

I’m interested in submitting my musical piece to NIME2025, however, it is unclear to me if multi-channel compositions would be accepted and under which category?

Best regards,

Melody_re

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Hi @Melody_re,

We don’t have a specific category for multi-channel compositions, if you’re planning to perform your work in person you should submit it under “Live Performance”, if you will be performing remotely it would be “Remote Performance” and if it’s something more like an installation, then “Installation” is the right category.

There have been and will be many multi channel (well, more than 2 channel) performances at NIME, we just tend not to have specific categories for them. Your submission is very welcome :slight_smile:

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hello there, I am considering submitting a prerendered video piece that requires 5 separate screens, is this something that can be supported?

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Again, we don’t have a specific “5 screen work” category.

We can probably find 5 screens if needed but it’s up to the author to explain the technical setup carefully and justify feasibility in their submission.

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thank you for clarifying

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Just updating everybody that as promised the CMT submission site is now open for all tracks: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NIME2025/

And don’t forget to sign up as a reviewer: https://forms.office.com/r/eZ2qVU8MbE

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Hi,

For fixed music composition, does the video documentation of proposed work need to be of the finished work, or could it be a work-in-progress or proof-of-concept video documentation?

For video documentation of an improvised work with NIMEs, can the video documentation be a combination of different instantiations of the improvised work?

Thank you.

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For music submissions, a work-in-progress or proof-of-concept video is completely acceptable for submission and review, similarly for improvised works. I guess the quality of the documentation is important in terms of convincing reviewers that works are high quality and appropriate for NIME.

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Hi, I am submitting a music performance. Can you clarify what is required for the technical notes and program notes and how the program notes is different from the project description. I have had a look through previous years submissions but it seems slightly different terms were used. Thank you.

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Hello there,

We updated the wording of a section slightly. Here is a clarification of what is expected in each section (adapted from 2024):

Program notes: This is the text you want to appear in the concert and installation program, to be read by the audience, if your submission is accepted. Maximum 200 words.

Project description: Here you explain the background and context of the submitted work, and describe the underlying concepts and technologies, and whatever other information you want reviewers to know. This is also an opportunity to explain why this is relevant to the NIME community, and how it connects to the field. It will be read by reviewers, but if the submission is accepted, it will also be part of documentation for the future, in the form of music proceedings. It is not required to be an academic text.

Technical notes: This is equivalent to a tech rider. Here you describe the technical and practical requirements for the performance or installation, including needs in terms of space, props, furniture, sound amplification, and other things reviewers, music chairs, and organisers need to know to evaluate the feasibility of the work and plan for a potential performance. Please mention if the submission is particularly suitable for a particular venue (of those listed in the call). Also, please be clear about what you yourself is able to bring, e.g., in terms of technology, and what you expect us to provide. The total page count for the submission PDF is expected to be in the range of 2-6 pages. If it is a remote performance, please provide details on how the remote connection will be set up so that our onsite program team can integrate it for local production.

Sections for media link and ethical standards remain the same.

Hope this helps!

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Hello @yichenwang

I’m preparing submissions for NIME 2025 and have a project that spans both research and artistic practice. Would it be acceptable to submit related content to both the Paper and Music tracks? Additionally, would this approach be encouraged, or is it generally recommended to avoid submitting to multiple tracks with related work? I’d greatly appreciate any guidance or advice on this. Thank you in advance!

LumiSound

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@lumisound - totally appropriate and common to submit a related paper and music submission. Lots of folks do this and it’s encouraged :slight_smile:

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Hi NIME
I am submitting a music performance.
I have a question about anonymising the submission particulary this:

“For Music submissions, author names should not appear in the PDF submission, video documentation or account names that are linked from submissions”

I am unsure of how to submit media links that do not have my name in the account (e.g. vimeo, google, onedrive all have my name in the linked accounts) Would you suggest setting up a seperate google account for example?
Do you have an example of a previous anonymous performance submission you could share?

Thank you. Lou

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Hi @LouBarnell - this is a great question and I have updated the website with more details. Yes, we suggest creating a separate account at Vimeo from any accounts you may already have.

There are two options for your submission video: Supplementary Material through the submission site (up to 700MB file), or an external link. Here’s the new instructions from the submissions page:

  1. Prepare one documentation video for your submission, please make sure that the video does not contain author names or affiliations. We recommend you use a video compression application such as Handbrake to ensure that your files are a reasonable size. For example, 4mbps 1080p video and 256kbps stereo audio encoding will produce a high quality 15-minute video file under 500MB.
  2. Option 1 (easiest): upload as Supplementary Material in CMT. You need to create a submission first, then the “Upload Supplementary Material” link will appear in CMT’s Author Console (link to help documentation). For music submissions, you can upload a video of up to 700MB in .mp4, .mov, .mkv formats. This is sufficient for a NIME-length videos (e.g., a 15-minute video with 4mbps video encoding and a 256kbps audio track will be ~485MB). You may wish to note in your PDF submission that your video is uploaded as Supplementary Material.
  3. Option 2 (a bit harder): upload to a streaming site. You need to create an reasonably anonymous account at a streaming site (Vimeo is known to work, see this example of an anonymised video), upload your file, provide the video link in your submission PDF so that reviewers can find it.

Please note:

  • Do not submit a video link from an account with obvious author names (e.g., your portfolio YouTube account) or with other videos that contain author names and affiliations.
  • Media submissions for review do not have to include multi-channel uncompressed audio or high-bitrate video. Reasonable quality 1080p files are acceptable (e.g., 4mbps video + 256kbps stereo audio). Keep in mind that reviewers will look at your work on a regular computer, likely with stereo speakers or headphones.
  • We do not suggest using file sharing links (e.g., Dropbox, Google Drive, etc) as they often expire which complicates the review process.
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Hi,
I would like to propose an interactive installation and live performance together as an event. Can I do this as 1 submission, or should I do 2 submissions - one for installation, and one for live performance?

Are installations set up in a space for a specified period of time?

Thank you.

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Hi @j_h,

Yep an installation would be set in a space for a specific amount of time (spaces organised after acceptance).

Hmm. I guess the question is whether your proposal would make sense only if both are accepted or if the ideas would work separately:

  • only makes sense together: one submission
  • Could work if one or the other but not both accepted: two submissions.
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Thank you that helpful! I have just realised I am now away (and off grid) for the conference.

Is it worth me submitting along another track even if I am not able to attend? I was intending to apply to perform with a NIME, and I also have a filmed commentrary and documentation of the performance as well as a paper discussion relevant to the conference themes. However I will not be able to be present for any discussion online. Does it sound like submitting anything could work? or is it best to wait til next year?
Thanks again! Lou

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Hi @LouBarnell

It’s completely up to you whether to submit or not this year but generally folks want to be involved in the conference events either in-person or remotely.

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