NIME 2027
Call for Contributions
Whether you’re a researcher, musician, artist, instrument builder, or simply exploring new ways to make music, we’d love to see your contribution at the conference. There are many ways to get involved, grouped around two main deadlines.
Theme
Sensorial Symbiosis
NIME 2027’s theme, Sensorial Symbiosis, explores how musical expression emerges through relationships among performers, instruments, computational systems, environments, and audiences.
How do bodies, instruments, machines, and environments shape one another? What forms of musical expression emerge when sensing, agency, and authorship move between people, materials, and machines? How can interfaces extend, substitute for, or reshape perception, or allow us to encounter traces across time?
Each submission track approaches these questions through its own forms of contribution, presentation, review, and exchange.
Engaging with the theme is welcome but optional. Work on any NIME topic is reviewed by the same criteria, listed on each of the call pages.
Peer reviewed
Due Sunday 31 January 202723:59 AoE
Every submission receives double-blind peer review by at least three reviewers, and a meta-reviewer leads the discussion, writes a summary review and recommends a decision.
Papers
Research, such as a study of musical gestures, a new instrument design or a reflection on performance practice.
Read moreMusic / Performance
Concert works, such as a piece for a custom controller or a human–machine duet.
Read moreArt / Installations
Artworks, such as an interactive sound sculpture or a room that responds musically to visitors.
Read moreJuried
Due Sunday 4 April 202723:59 AoE
Juried tracks are selected by a jury rather than through peer review. Jurors give brief assessments and the track chairs make the final decision, so authors may expect lighter feedback than a peer reviewed track provides.
alt.nime
Work that fosters critical dialogue about the field and its practices, or challenges established academic formats, conventions, and ways of presenting or sharing knowledge.Full call later in November 2026
Read moreArtifacts & Ideas
Work without an accompanying research paper, such as a DIY instrument presented as a demonstration or a musical-interaction concept presented as a poster.Full call later in November 2026
Read moreWorkshops
Shared activities, such as exploring collaborative live coding, discussing accessible music-making, or bringing NIME subcommunities together.Full call later in November 2026
Read moreDoctoral Consortium
Feedback on a developing thesis from peers and senior mentors.Full call later in November 2026
Read moreThe steps that are the same whichever track you choose are on submission instructions. Every deadline is on key dates.
Review for NIME 2027
Every peer reviewed submission gets three reviews from peer experts and a meta review from an experienced member of the community. That only works if enough people volunteer, so we ask everyone who submits to review as well. Reviewing runs through February 2027.
Sign up on the reviewing page.