The ideation, conception and implementation of new musical interfaces and instruments
provide more than the mere construction of digital objects. As physical and digital …

This article advocates for a dialogue about research traditions and paradigms within the
community around New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Although the research …

Practice-based research in NIME is rooted in the practices of design and musical
performance. Perspectives from HCI on the relationship between design and research …

This paper deals with the question of how the development of new musical artifacts can
benefit from deeply engaging with contemporary musical practice. With the novel ideas …

In this paper, we reflect on the focus of “newness” in NIME research and practice and argue
that there is a missing O (for “Old”) in framing our academic discourse. A systematic review …

Nearly two decades after its inception as a workshop at the Association for Computing
Machinery Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Interfaces for …

So far, NIME research has been mostly inward-looking, dedicated to divulging and studying
our own work and having limited engagement with trends outside our community. Though …

Musical instruments are not static and neutral technological objects, but objects we shape
through our designing and performing practices. Along these lines, various authors have …

Live music making can be understood as an enactive process, whereby musical
experiences are created through human action. This suggests that musical worlds coevolve …

In the field of human computer interaction (HCI) the limitations of prototypes as the primary
artefact used in research have been noted. Prototypes often remain open in their design, are …