Strategies for working creatively with technology are discussed with an emphasis on working towards decolonisation in creative technology using a lens for looking at technology as land.

This paper proposes a new classification of virtual instrumentation known as a Mixed Reality Musical Instrument (MRMI) and offers a dimensional framework for their design and analysis.

Examining the performance practice of three ensembles in Gibber, a networked live coding environment

An empirical study explores novel NIME interfaces in a head-mounted augmented reality environment.

A new interface that embeds multiple versions of the t-Stick is developed, and its possibilities explored.

An artificial agent controlling the live sound processing like a toddler playing around with its parent's effects pedals

A physical simulation of coupled harmonic oscillators provides a new LFO paradigm and a virtual interface based on a tangible, causal phenomenon.

ForceHost is an open-source toolchain (based on Faust) for generating firmware embedding the authoring (transfer function editor) and rendering (digital signal processing) of audio and force-feedback haptics.

The live-stream MappEMG pipeline augments the traditional classical concert experience by giving listeners access, through the sense of touch, to the performer’s muscle effort, an intimate and non-visible dimension of the musicians’ bodily experience while performing.

Presenting findings from an augmented reality user study focused on gestural expression and audio-visual immersion.

A Study of Feedback Musicianship Terminology

A new musical instrument celebrating the expressive possibilities of redundant magnetic media

An outline of designing and prototyping process of an experimental hybrid musical instrument

The design of a bespoke musical interface designed to engage the public’s interest in wildlife sounds

A paper about our efforts to create electronic bandoneons in Argentina, with a bit of history, acoustics research, and NIME design guidelines.

Extending the Norns Shield's potential as an ensemble instrument through the addition of networked collaboration and ensemble management software.

We present a systematic review of voice-centered NIME publications from the past two decades.

Exploring the Expressiveness of Deformable Interface in Musical Context through Non-functional Prototype Design Practice

This paper explores an alternative approach to interaction based on the discrete Huffman encoding of input from a single continuous controller. Statistical analysis indicates the feasibility of a tactically predictive system on this basis.

This paper explores what can our practice tell us about the challenges and benefits of integrating the audience in telematic performance using their mobile phones to form a collective musical instrument, referred to here as a digital musical persona.

Two Interviews with Chinese NIMEers

This paper discusses a method for evaluating the repurposing of motor skills in expert performers, based on subtle periodic changes in the action-sound couplings of digital musical instruments.

Bodily knowledge-focused analysis, applied to previous NIME’s instruments/ papers, and to the design and the exploration of two new interactive musical applications.

We present the proto-langspil as a contemporary interpretation of the langspil, an Icelandic monochord-like folk instrument, and describe its agential contributions to the first Icelandic NIME research lab.

A Collection of Common Patterns and Conventions for Designing Musical Grid User Interfaces

A Comparison of Co-Existing Design Strategies for Musical Grid User Interfaces

In this paper we present the development of a new gestural musical instrument, the AirSticks 2.0.

Exploring design fiction and absurd making as NIME practices

Describing the implementation of an ultrasonic art installation, whereby interactivity emerges as a result of fixed acoustic properties in the system.

An introduction and commentary on dialogic design approaches to building ADMIs by critiquing commonly used participatory design methods

This paper suggests the value of traditional musicological analyses of the music made with new instruments, taking as a case study the motivic analysis of performances on a large-scale digital musical instrument.

the first three years of developing and exploring a new family of instruments evolved from the trombone

Qualitative design of pitch fingering systems using a globally optimal brute force search.

This paper describes the prototyping process of an open-source NIME based on an ancient Andean abacus converted into a step sequencer.

This paper addresses the usability shortcomings of the Web MIDI API and presents the WEBMIDI.js library which was created to facilitate the usage of the MIDI protocol inside the Web browser.

Thematic analysis on interviews with artists using technology-based movement-sound interactions.

An audio-visual-haptic music tutoring machine; a multimodal scaffolding-fading curriculum for general music education; a pilot study.

Latent Drummer is an intelligent sequencer for modular synthesizer. Relevant research into machine learning and modular sequencer design are presented alongside a discussion of the developed system.

We present Augmented Touch, which is a mounting adapter for VR controllers, and a new instrument that utilizes this adapter to incorporate an additional degree of haptic feedback into VR.

We study how visual feedback affects awareness in digital orchestras

Augmenting musical instruments with actuators and projected virtual shapes

L2Ork Tweeter is a new control-data-driven free and open source crowdsourced telematic musicking platform that deterministically addresses three of the greatest challenges associated with the telematic music medium, that of latency, sync, and bandwidth.

A novel paradigm for non-invasive electroacoustic actuation of the violin using a common violin accessory.

Four recommendations inspired by sustainable HCI

Ghost Play is a violin-playing robot that aims to realize bowing and fingering like human players using electromagnetic linear actuators to continuously control the bow speed, bow pressure, and pitch.

This paper details the co-design process of vibrotactile wearable interfaces and performance for a Deaf dancer and a hearing musician, supporting music-dance interaction for inclusive music-making.

Two systems for visualizing musical forms and improving awareness in musical structures managements

A toolkit that facilitates bibliometric studies and identification of topic trends in NIME conference papers

Audio datasets with systematic variation in parameters are necessary for training conditional audio synthesis models. A new collection of complex audio textures with labeled parametric variation analogous to musical instruments sets with pitch and amplitude addresses this need.

The redesign and iteration of a percussive instrument towards reliable performance-based practice.

The creation and conceptual exploration of an advanced signal mapping tool in Ableton Live.