Hi all,
Here's the CFP for NIME, which will be in London 2014.
The topics include "Language and state in live interaction".
All being well there will be an Algorave during the conference.
Best wishes
alex
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From: Baptiste Caramiaux <bc_at_goldsmithsdigital.com>
Date: 27 September 2013 14:41
Subject: [NIME community] First CfP, NIME 2014. International
Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
To: community_at_nime.org
Apologies for cross-postings.
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14th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)
June 30 - July 3, 2014
Goldsmiths University of London
London, UK
web: www.nime.org/nime2014
facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/NIME2014
twitter: #nime2014
Call for Participation
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INTRODUCTION
NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) is the premier conference
in designing human-computer interfaces and interactions for musical
performance. NIME gathers researchers and practitioners around
lectures, installations, concerts, and workshops. We are delighted to
host NIME 2014 at Goldsmiths, University of London, bringing NIME for
the first time to London and situating the conference within highly
developed UK research networks in music computing, media, design, and
HCI, and connecting NIME research to a thriving local music scene,
art, and interaction design communities.
In its second decade, one can say that NIME, as a field, has
“arrived.” Sensing technology is ubiquitous in consumer products like
smart-phones and video game controllers. Computer-based music
performance is no longer contained in specialised genres, but has
become the norm in a broad range of musical styles. The success of
interactive music technologies puts in question the very need for NIME
to even exist.
The take-up of NIME techniques in all music causes the technology to
disappear and forces us to focus on the music. This represents a
double-edged sword. While the focus on musical quality is paramount,
it can only be built upon foundations of solid craft and excellent
science. In order to avoid re-inventing the wheel, and worse yet,
repeating mistakes, NIME needs to build a legacy of reproducible
results, citable references, and transferrable methods and techniques
that can be transmitted to students, broader groups of musicians, and
amateurs eager to engage in richer musical experiences.
New instruments and interaction are at the heart of NIME. Lutherie and
composition combine to create the means to deliver compelling live
performances. This is an ideal, and is more often than not, assumed.
In between the science of interaction and the art of music-making are
the cultural and theoretical considerations about what comprises an
exciting performance.
With the theme Liveness, we draw upon Philip Auslander’s reading of
this seemingly simple word as a way to look at issues of authenticity,
experience, and the role that theatricality and mediatization might
play in reinforcing or detracting from a successful performer/audience
dynamic.
We will build upon a productive history of collaboration between
Goldsmiths and Brunel University in the Brunel Electronic and Analogue
Music (BEAM) festival to bring added excitement to the NIME 2014
concert and exhibition programme. We will partner with high profile
venues such as Café Oto and DIY communities like London Music
Hackspace to open up the NIME artistic programme to the general public
and connect our research community to the thriving music scene in
London.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
On behalf of the NIME 2014 Committee, we would like to invite you to
be part of the 14th international conference on New Interfaces for
Musical Expression.
We invite submission of new works in the following categories:
• Papers and Posters
• Performances and Installations
• Workshops and Tutorials
• Demonstrations and Demo-performances
Important dates:
• Artistic programme: Performances & Installation works
Submissions due: December 1, 2013
Review Notification: February 1, 2014
• Scientific programme: Papers, Workshops, Demonstrations:
Draft submission (mandatory): January 31, 2014
Final submission: February 7, 2014
Review notification: March 28, 2014
Camera-ready paper deadline: April 18, 2014
An online submission system will open on November 1st, 2013 and its
address will be published here.
N.B. Please note that the art programme deadline this year does not
coincide with the paper deadline.
N.B. Please note the new system in the scientific programme for
mandatory draft submission followed by full submission. We have
implemented this new system to address the perennial deadline
extensions. This year, we will not offer extensions. The Draft
Submission deadline corresponds to previous years’ submission
deadline. On this date, the author must be registered on the online
submission system and have submitted a full draft manuscript of their
paper. You will then have one week (the time of prior years’
extensions) to make minor edits to your manuscript.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
CALL FOR PAPERS
We welcome submissions of original research on scientific and artistic
use of new interfaces for musical expression. A non-exhaustive list of
NIME related topics is found below. This list is inclusive, and
indicative. The thematic focus of this year’s edition is Liveness, and
is described in the introduction above. We also encourage submissions
that extend, stretch, or challenge the NIME topics and themes.
Acceptance criteria: The paper under consideration must propose an
original contribution to NIME research; it must cite prior related
work and should demonstrate rigorous research methodology.
There are three different paper submission categories:
• Full paper (up to 6 pages in proceedings, longer oral presentation,
optional demo)
• Short paper/poster (up to 4 pages in proceedings, shorter oral
presentation or poster, optional demo)
• Demo paper (up to 2 pages in proceedings, demonstration)
Submitted papers will be subject to a peer review process by an
international expert committee. All accepted papers will be published
in the conference proceedings, under an ISSN/ISBN reference, and will
be archived online after the conference to be tracked by citation
tools. A manuscript submitted for review cannot be already under
review for publication elsewhere, or be submitted for a second review
elsewhere while under review for NIME 2014. Authors of both full and
short papers are greatly encouraged to submit a video in support of
their paper. A video is mandatory for demonstration submission.
Review process detailed here
http://www.nime.org/nime2014#reviewprocesspapers
A best paper award will be presented to the individual(s) judged by
the scientific committee to have written the best paper appearing in
the conference proceedings.
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
We invite submissions for half-day (3 hours) or full-day (6 hours)
workshops and tutorials. These can be targeted towards specialist
techniques, platforms, hardware, software or pedagogical topics for
the advancement of fellow NIME-ers and people with experience related
to the topic. They can also be targeted towards visitors to the NIME
community, novices/newbies, interested student participants, people
from other fields, and members of the public getting to know the
potential of NIME.
Tutorial proposals should clearly indicate the audience and assumed
knowledge of their intended participants to help us market to the
appropriate audience. Workshops and tutorials can relate to, but are
not limited to, the topics of the conference. This is a good
opportunity to explore a specialized interest or interdisciplinary
topic in depth with greater time for discourse, debate, and
collaboration.
ARTISTIC PROGRAMME
CALL FOR PERFORMANCES & INSTALLATIONS
We invite submission of proposals for performances and installations.
Proposed performances should have a clear connection with the
substance of the NIME conference. We expand the notion of NIME in the
performance programme, to include the exploration of existing
interfaces into new sounds, new methods or new ways of being physical.
These performances might re-insert the body into digital performance,
or they might suggest new modes of performing and the presentation of
live music that go beyond existing practices whilst exploiting the
unique affordances of interfaces and technologies.
We encourage submissions that explore:
• Novel and exploratory use of interfaces in performance
• Both old and new interfaces
• Use of innovative, imaginative and creative methods.
We invite you to consider fully what a performance can be: you should
go well beyond demonstrating the interface and we will consider any
performance that is in the realm of live, electronically-produced
sound, where an interface is central to the realisation of the music.
Submitted proposals will be reviewed by an expert committee.
Preference will be given to submissions with strong evidence that the
proposed performance has already been realized or is technically
feasible and within the artists' capabilities. We particularly invite
premieres from performers with a track record, or with interfaces that
have been well tested.
CALL FOR DEMO-PERFORMANCES
This year, we introduce a hybrid zone between the artistic and
scientific programme by creating a new category of
demonstration-performance. This is particularly apt for new interfaces
and performance sketches which are still in the testing or early
artistic phase. A lively demo session will allow you to set up your
piece or instrument and give short performances in an unstaged
setting.
TECHNICAL NOTES
• Performance proposals in conjunction with paper submissions are
allowed, but each will be judged on its own merit.
• Typical NIME performance pieces last for 5-15 minutes, but shorter
and longer performance proposals may exceptionally be taken into
consideration.
• Within reasonable limits, we may be able to provide musicians to
perform pieces but this would be negotiated on a piece-by-piece basis.
• Documentation of the performances will be available online after the
conference unless this is impossible due to the nature of the
performance.
SUBMISSION FORMAT
You should submit a PDF document, maximum 4 pages. The proposal should
include the following:
• Title and detailed description of the proposed performance.
• A link to one primary video documentation of an example performance
with the relevant interface. (If video documentation is inappropriate
for your performance, please explain why and instead send an audio
file with accompanying photographs (these do not need to be to
marketing standard, they are more for explanation of how your
performance will look).
• Links to any relevant supplementary supporting media files (audio and video).
• Number of performers and the instruments and technologies that will be used.
• Names of all participants/submitters, with a short bio for each (100 words).
• Details of technical requirements for the venue. Diagrams of the
preferred stage setup and signal routing are recommended.
• Evidence of the feasibility of the performance. Include
documentation and listings of past performances or related works that
demonstrate the submitter's capabilities to implement the proposed
performance.
• A list of any equipment that needs to be provided by the conference
organizers.
• Any instrumental performers that would need to be provided by the
organizers. Note that the conference organizers may not be able to
accommodate your request. Please also note that the organizers cannot
provide funding to support performers' travel or accommodation at the
conference.
TOPICS
Core topics central to NIME include the following. In addition to
submissions that address specific themes of this year’s edition of the
conference, original contributions are encouraged in, but not limited
to, the following topics:
- Novel controllers and interfaces for musical expression
- Novel musical instruments
- Augmented/hyper instruments
- Novel controllers for collaborative performance
- Sensor and actuator technologies
- Haptic and force feedback devices
- Motion, gesture and music
- Interfaces for dance and physical expression
- Multimodal expressive interfaces
- Interfaces for musical expression for hearing or visually impaired people
- Interactive game music
- NIME intersecting with game design
- Robotic music
- Mobile music technology and performance paradigms
- Biological and bio-inspired systems
- Musical mapping strategies
- Interactive sound and multimedia installations
- Musical human-computer interaction
- Interaction design and software tools
- Interface protocols and data formats
- Sonic interaction design
- Perceptual and cognitive issues
- Performance analysis
- Performance rendering and generative algorithms
- Machine learning in musical performance
- Experiences with novel interfaces in live performance and composition
- Surveys of past work and stimulating ideas for future research
- Historical studies in twentieth-century instrument design
- Artistic, cultural, and social impact of NIME technology
- Novel interfaces in music education and entertainment
- Reports on student projects in the framework of NIME related courses
- Practice-based research approaches/methodologies/criticism
- User studies/evaluations of NIME
- Language and state in live interaction
- Musicianship of new musical interfaces
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General co-chairs
Atau Tanaka (Goldsmiths)
Rebecca Fiebrink (Goldsmiths)
Scientific co-chairs
Baptiste Caramiaux (Goldsmiths)
Koray Tahiroğlu (Aalto University, Helsinki)
Artistic co-chairs
Sarah Nicolls (Brunel University)
Adam Parkinson (Goldsmiths)
Posters and demos co-chairs
Marco Donnarumma (Goldsmiths)
Alessandro Altavilla (Goldsmiths)
Special Sessions co-chairs
Marco Gillies (Goldsmiths)
Alex McLean (University of Leeds)
Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut (ROLI/Music Hackspace)
Student Volunteer Coordinators
Peter Mackenzie (Goldsmiths)
Anna Weisling (Goldsmiths)
Conference Producer
Stephanie Horak (Goldsmiths)
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