Three musicians playinghydraulophone, an instrument that is similar to a woodwind instrument but makes sound from incompressible fluid (water) rather than compressible fluid (air). Photo from concert programme of the NIME-07 conference in New York City.
New Interfaces for Musical Expression, also known asNIME, is an internationalconference dedicated to scientific research on the development of new technologies and their role inmusical expression and artistic performance.
The conference began as a workshop (NIME 01) at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in 2001 inSeattle, Washington, with the concert and demonstration sessions being held at theExperience Music Project museum. Since then, international conferences have been held annually around the world:
Poupyrev, Ivan, Lyons, Michael J., Fels, Sidney, Blaine, Tina (Bean). "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.
