New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2026

23-26 June 2026, London, UK and online


About NIME 2026

New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) is an international conference about new musical interfaces, their artistic use and the technologies involved in building them. Researchers from all over the world share their knowledge and late breaking work during the conference. The conference started as a workshop at the CHI conference in 2001 and, since then, has been held annually around the world.

NIME 2026 will be held from June 23rd to 26th in London, UK. This year’s conference is jointly organised by the Augmented Instruments Laboratory at Imperial College London and Loughborough University London (LUL). The physical conference will take place in East London. The workshops and daytime programme will be held at the LUL Here East Campus in London’s Olympic Park, and the evening concerts will take place at the Rich Mix cultural centre in Shoreditch. NIME 2026 is a hybrid conference, and all authors will have the option to attend in person or online.


NIME 2026 Theme: Communities

This year’s theme acknowledges the incredible diversity of music-making amongst communities large and small, around the world and in our own hometowns. Throughout its history, NIME has fostered its own internal artistic communities and traditions, while also exchanging ideas and forging alliances with other sites of musical practice.

The theme of NIME 2026 focuses outward: what can NIME contribute to other musical and technical communities? How can we work more closely with musicians, artists and designers outside the academic realm, and what can we learn from rich traditions of design and experimentation outside academia? How can NIME research and practice be more responsive to the values, aesthetics and priorities of specific, geographically or culturally-situated communities? How could we share our artistic and technical work more widely?

We welcome submissions to all NIME tracks which address these questions. We also encourage submissions which feature the active participation of individuals or communities outside of academic research. The Call for Participation suggests some specific topics for paper and music submission related to this year’s theme, but authors are invited to interpret the theme in their own ways.


Inclusion and Accessibility at NIME

NIME seeks to bring together an outstanding worldwide community of musical and technical researchers, open to all people regardless of age, nationality, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or disability status. Further details on accessibility arrangements for NIME 2026 will be shared closer to the conference. If you have any specific access needs, concerns or suggestions, please contact us to discuss.

We note that NIME submissions (papers, music, workshops) are subject to the NIME Principles & Code of Practice on Ethical Research and we ask all submitters to consider accessibility implications that may be relevant to their proposals. We welcome conversations regarding accessibility potential of submissions and look to ways to promote embedded accessibility in all that we do.


Important Dates:

All dates are 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).

  • 4 December 2025: Submission CMT Site opens
  • 5 February 2026: Papers and Music - Titles, abstracts and author lists due
  • 12 February 2026: Papers and Music - Final submissions due
  • 5 March 2026: Workshop, alt.NIME and Student Consortium submissions due
  • 9 April 2026: Acceptance decisions and reviews released
  • 30 April 2026: Camera ready and presenter registration deadline
  • 23 June 2026: NIME Workshops and Student Consortium
  • 24-26 June 2026: NIME Conference


About this Site

These pages will be regularly updated with additional information as the submission deadlines and conference approach. Please check back regularly or contact us with any queries. Thanks to Charles Martin and Yichen Wang for the web template and materials from NIME 2025.