NIME2025 Townhall

NIME 2025 Town Hall Slides

Friday, 27 June 2025
Cinema, Lowitja O'Donoghue Cultural Centre, Australian National University, Ngunnawal Country (Canberra), Australia
Text from slides provided below.

Conference Attendance

Total attendees: 199
By presence:
Remote: 50 (-ish)
In person: 149 (-ish)
By type:
Non-Student: 58- Student: 106
Committee: 14
Guests: 8
Volunteers: 13

*1 remote participant saves up to ~3000 kg of carbon emissions (based on London-Sydney economy air fare). So we saved up to 150000 kg of carbon emissions.*

N.B.: in person attendance numbers are approximate as some people did not check in at the registration desk and some people were not able to attend in person as a last minute decision.

Submissions and Acceptance

Paper Track (Short, Medium, Long)
Submissions: 195
Accepted: 96 (49%)
Music Track (Live/Remote Performances + Installations)
Submissions: 104
Accepted: 44 (42%)
Workshops Track
Submissions: 12
Accepted: 9 (75%)
Total submissions (all tracks): 311

Committee

*General Chairs:* Charles Martin, Pia van Gelder
*Paper/Poster Chairs:* Florent Berthaut, Doga Cavdir, Yichen Wang
*Music Chairs:* Sophie Rose, Nicole Carroll, Jos Mulder
*Workshop Chairs:* Minsik Choi, Alon Ilsar
*Accessibility:* Alexander Hunter
*Hybrid:* Albert-Ngabo Niyonsenga
*Proceedings:* Sam Trolland
*Student Volunteers:* Sandy Ma
*Social Media:* Patrick Hartono

Special Thanks to PhD students on the committee..

ANU SMCClab (sound, music and creative computing lab):

Yichen Wang (posters!)
Sandy Ma (ambassadors/volunteers!)
Minsik Choi (workshops!)
Albert Niyonsenga (hybrid STREAMING!)

Monash Sensilab:

Sam Trolland (proceedings!)

These folks were crucial for the success of NIME2025! Thank you all so, so much.

Sponsors

The Australian National University
School of Computing
School of Music
School of Art and Design
MusicACT (Closing Concert)
Prize Sponsor: Bela

A word from the NIME board

The NIME board is NIME’s governing body. It presently has 8 members and meets ~10 times per year.
NIME is an informal collective (no legal organisation or bank account), but board provides continuity, develops community and manages procedural issues (publishing proceedings etc).
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Nominate for the board! (next elections will be in 2026)
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News from Committees (Juan!)

Prizes

Three categories:

Best Paper (winner + two highly commended)
Panel: Paper + General Chairs
Best Music (winner + two highly commended)
Panel: Music + General Chairs
Pamela Z Award for Innovation, Diversity and Inclusion
Panel: Paper + Music + General Chairs

Prize Sponsor: Bela! https://bela.io/gem

Category winners (Paper, Music, Pamela Z)
Bela Gem Multi (10 in / 10 out)
Highly commended
Bela Gem Stereo (2 in / 2 out)

Best Paper

*Winner:*

(10) Looping slowly: Diffraction through the lens of nostalgia by Benedict Gaster; Nathan Renney; Jasmine Butt

*Highly Commended:*

(137) The Imperfect Copy: Role Playing Reenactments of Historical Electronic Sound Instruments by Derek Holzer; Henrik Frisk; André Holzapfel
(78) Towards Neurodiverse Sensemaking: Pluralizing Agency in Wearable Music and Participatory Workshopping by Seth Thorn; Anani Vasquez; Corey Reutlinger; Margarita Pivovarova; Mirka Koro.

Best Music

*Winner:*

(178) Carpet Entanglement by Joseph Burgess

*Highly Commended:*

(292) Playing the Sound Image by risako shibata; miki kanda; kenta tanaka; ryoho kobayashi; yuta uozumi; shinya fujii
(190) Orbis by by Yukihiro Sugawara; Kotaro Watanabe; Shinnosuke Hirose; Moe Miyake; Kenshiro Taira; Sakura Takada; Ryoho Kobayashi; Yuta Uozumi; Kei Fujiwara; Shinya Fujii

Pamela Z Award for Innovation, Diversity and Inclusion

*Winner:*

(68) Between Garment and Prosthesis: The Design of an E-Textile Musical Interface by Qiaosheng Lyu; Ryo Ikeshiro.

*Highly Commended:*

(43) State Change by Molly Joyce
(253) The Sound Tree Project: Developing Personal and Collective Expression with Accessible Digital Musical Instruments by Steph O’Hara; Alon Ilsar.