Nime

New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) is an international community and annual conference focused on the design, study, and use of musical interfaces and interactive technologies for musical expression. It brings together researchers, performers, designers, and educators from computer science, engineering, music, art, and design to explore how devices, software, and sensors can expand the ways people create and perform music.

Topics in NIME cover gestural and tangible interfaces, wearable controllers, sensor networks, real-time sound synthesis and control, interactive installations, and software frameworks that support rapid prototyping of musical interactions. Researchers investigate expressivity, ergonomics, perceptual evaluation, and learning in musical contexts, often emphasizing accessible hardware and open software.

The NIME conference provides a peer-reviewed venue for papers, demos, posters, and performances, with accompanying exhibitions of interactive works. Proceedings are published and distributed widely, and the community maintains open resources, including code, design files, and datasets to support reproducibility and collaboration.

As a field, NIME sits at the crossroads of human-computer interaction, computer music, interactive art, and design. It has influenced education and practice in music technology by promoting cross-disciplinary collaboration, rapid prototyping, and open sharing of ideas and tools.

It emerged in the early 2000s and has grown into a global network, with annual meetings and an ongoing body of research that informs both academic study and practical music-making.