Programme by Track

Workshops (all on 23 June):

There are limited spaces for each workshop. Some workshops require that interested participants submit an expression of interest, proposal or demo and may have their own internal deadlines. Please see each workshop’s page for more information. For the workshops that do not require a submission, a sign-up form will be distributed by late May.

Full day (9am-6pm):

• Collective Attachments and Community Responsibilities: The Impact of NIME Research
  by Tove Grimstad Bang (STMS-Ircam-CNRS-Sorbonne Université)*; Florent Berthaut (CRISTAL Université de Lille); Benedict R. Gaster (University of West of England); Raul Masu (Conservatory of Music F. A. Bonporti)
  
• The Third Bank of the River Lea: Listening to Waterbodies in East London
  by Ania Mokrzycka (Loughborough University London); Luiz Ribeiro Sales Fonseca (Loughborough University London); Karina Townsend (University of East London); Vitoria Croda (Loughborough University London); Ines Nolasco (Loughborough University London); Courtney N. Reed (Loughborough University London)*
  

Morning (9am-1pm):

• Data Knot: Machine Learning for low latency real-time performance
  by Rodrigo Constanzo (Royal Northern College of Music)*; Jordie Shier (Centre for Digital Music Queen Mary University of London)
  
• From Tacit to Tokenised: Critical Perspectives on AI Text-to-Audio Interfaces
  by Charalampos Saitis (Queen Mary University of London)*; Fabio Morreale (Sony AI); Landon Morrison (University of Rochester); Ashley Noel-Hirst (Queen Mary University of London); Rebecca Fiebrink (University of the Arts London); Joseph Meyer (University of the Arts London); Courtney N. Reed (Loughborough University London)
  
• It’s Play NIME: Mapping Playfulness in NIME
  by Lucia Montesinos (IT University of Copenhagen)*; Tara Pattenden (Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University); Lia Mice (Institute of Contemporary Music Performance)
  
• Workshop on Haptic Musical Artifacts: Availability, Replicability, Sustainability of Force-Feedback Devices
  by Christian Frisson (University of Calgary)*; Marcelo M. Wanderley (McGill University)
  
• Tilde: Collaborative Multi-Modal Music Making on the Web
  by Ashvala Vinay (Georgia Institute of Technology)*; Ian Clester (NoneType)
  
• Sounds Like Rain: Prototyping Flexible Electronics for Wearable Interactions with Water
  by Jessica Stanley (Nottingham Trent University)*
  

Afternoon (2pm-6pm):

• Textile Testimonies: Feminist Sonic Practices with Domestic Instruments
  by Jocelyn Ho (University of Sydney)*; Margaret Schedel (Stony Brook University); Sofy Yuditskaya (Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci)
  
• Respiratory Musical Interfaces (RMIs) in NIME
  by Ziyue Piao (McGill University)*; Kanya Chen (Keio University)
  
• LATAM NIME GATHERING 2026
  by Laddy Patricia Cadavid Hinojosa (University of the West of England UWE Bristol)*; Teo Dannemann (Creative Computing Institute – University of the Arts London); Juan Martinez Avila (University of Nottingham); Ximena Alarcón Díaz (Universidad de Antioquia); João Tragtenberg (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)); Laura Zapata (Independent Researcher); Juan C. Duarte Regino (Aalto University); Moisés Horta Valenzuela (Independent Researcher); Jaime D. Rojas Vargas (Independent Researcher)
  
• I Resist The Body Electric: Subverting the Capture of Musical Gestures to Train AI Models
  by Fabio Morreale (Sony AI)*; Morgan Scheuerman (Sony AI); Giacomo Lepri (Università di Genova); Liam Pram (University of Auckland); Astrid Bin (Universität der Künste)
  
• Future NIME Leaders Workshop
  by Charles Martin (Australian National University)*; Yichen Wang (Australian National University); Pia van Gelder (Australian National University); Doga Cavdir (ITU); Fabio Morreale (Sony AI); Andrew McPherson (Imperial College); Juan Avila (Nottingham); Stefano Fasciani (University of Oslo); Courtney Reed (Loughborough)
  
• Zero-Code Rapid Prototyping of Wireless MIDI Devices with ESP-NOW MIDI
  by Thomas Geissl (University of the Arts Linz/Tamlab)*
  
• What Makes it Fun? Mapping Playful Interaction in Music-Making with AI
  by Jingjing Sun (Imperial College London)*; Francesco Di Maggio (Eindhoven University of Technology); Rebecca Fiebrink (University of the Arts London); Corey Ford (University of the Arts London); Bart Hengeveld (Eindhoven University of Technology); Sebastian Deterding (Imperial College London)
  
• Feedback-Actuated String Instruments Workshop
  by Adam Schmidt (Imperial College London)*; Andrew McPherson (Imperial College London); Jeff Snyder (Princeton University)
  

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