From left to right: Tug O’Flaherty, Fabio Morreale, Jimena Arruti, Laurel Pardue, Giacomo Lepri, Roberto Chiurazzi, Astrid Bin, Courtney Reed, Farida Yusuf, Avynne Trembly, Shuoyang Zheng, Elizabeth Wilson, Andrew McPherson, Charalampos Saitis, Anna Xambó, Nikhil Bullock, Jordie Shier, and Teresa Pelinski. Photo Credit: Victor Paredes. Photo Credit: Ben Gaster.
New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) is an international conference about new musical interfaces, their artistic use and the technologies involved in building them.
NIME this year was held from June 23rd to 26th in London, UK, hosted by the Augmented Instruments Laboratory at Imperial College London and the CHAOS Lab at Loughborough University London (LUL).
C4DM had a strong presence at the conference, both in terms of numbers and overall impact, including many contributions by C4DM alumni.
The below papers, workshops and performances were authored or co-authored by C4DM members, with an important presence of lab members:
Papers
- Latent Terrain: Adapting Neural Audio Autoencoders as Design Materials in NIME, by Shuoyang Jasper Zheng; Keigo Yoshida; Nico García-Peguinho; Jiatong Liu; Dan Hearn; Anna Xambó Sedó; Nick Bryan-Kinns
- RenCon 2025: Revival of Expressive Performance Rendering Competition, by Huan Zhang; Taegyun Kwon; Anders Freiburg; Junyan Jiang; Hayeon Bang; Hyeyoon Cho; Gus Xia; Akira Maezawa; Simon Dixon; Dasaem Jeong
- Algorithmic Drum Machine with Light Dependent Timbre Control, by Nikhil Bullock; Charalampos Saitis; Anna Xambó
- Performing Sequences: Interaction and Instrumentality in the Design of a Performable Sequencing System, by Roberto Chiurazzi; Anna Xambó; Charalampos Saitis
Workshops
- From Tacit to Tokenised: Critical Perspectives on AI Text-to-Audio Interfaces, by Charalampos Saitis; Fabio Morreale; Landon Morrison; Ashley Noel-Hirst; Rebecca Fiebrink; Joseph Meyer; Courtney N. Reed
- Data Knot: Machine Learning for low latency real-time performance, by Rodrigo Constanzo; Jordie Shier
Performance
- Sensing the Alice Holt Forest, by Anna Xambó Sedó
Conference Proceedings
Anna has served as a Papers Co-chair together with Ben Gaster, João Tragtenberg and Tom Mitchell. The Papers Chairs handled 366 submissions. The conference proceedings include 170 submissions (46% acceptance rate) and are available at:
- Gaster, B., Tragtenberg, J., Xambó Sedó, A., and Mitchell, T. (eds.) (2026) Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Loughborough University London/Imperial College London. ISSN 2220-4806.