Summary
The research field of Innovative Computer-based Music Interfaces (ICMI) deals with a wide variety of topics: from novel musical instruments to audio-video installations and 3D sound to performances. At the ICMI Workshop 2025 on August 31 at the Mensch und Computer in Chemnitz, we would like to consider the entire area of "Musical Interaction" and address the diverse target groups in this exciting field.With the regularity of our workshops, we would like to offer a forum to present and discuss new artistic approaches and research projects on Music Interaction. The primary goal is to bring the different groups of expertise, which usually deal with this topic independently, closer together and to get to know, try out, and exchange ideas, experiments, and developments in a joint event.
The ICMI Workshop has previously been held at the Mensch und Computer in the years 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2022 and was in high demand there.
Target Audience
International conferences such as NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression), ISMIR (International Symposium for Music Information Retrieval), and ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) demonstrate with their attendance numbers the rapid growth and interest in the research branch of physically-based interaction and, in particular, "Sound and Music Computing." The target audience for this workshop include various disciplines who are creative, work, research in the field of interaction with music and sound.The target audience is therefore relatively broad:
- Artists, musicians, composers, music and media producers, as well as DJs and VJs, who are interested in expanding their creative possibilities and exchanging ideas with technology, design, and art.
- (Media) computer scientists and technicians who deal with the software-specific implementation and technical realization of interfaces.
- Human-machine interaction experts and interface designers who operate in the field of user design for computer-based music.
- Music and media scientists who use or want to use new forms of input and output of non-textual content.
- Other participants of Mensch und Computer who are interested in this field of human-machine interaction or simply want to try out new input technologies and experience them audiovisually in practical demonstrations.
Motivation and Invitation – Call for Papers
We invite to a full-day workshop where new approaches to interaction with computer-based music interfaces are presented, tried out, and discussed. The primary goal is to bring the different groups of expertise, which usually deal with this topic independently, closer together and to get to know, try out, and exchange ideas, experiments, and developments in a joint event.Focused are contributions to the following topics:
- Tangible computer-based musical instruments
- Interactive and adaptive music/installations
- Interfaces for music/-ology
- Media production and composition
- Artistic development projects and workshop reports
- Application in artistic practice
- Auditory Displays and Sonic Interaction Design
- Auditory Feedback for Accessibility
- Interactive Music Information Retrieval
- Humanities, philosophical perspectives
- Psychological aspects
- Music and sound in immersive media
- Internet of Musical Things
We particularly welcome demos, hands-on sessions, and presentations that promote interdisciplinary exchange between development and artistic practice.
Submissions
Proposals (talks/music/demos) on relevant workshop topics can be submitted. These may be up to four pages long and must follow the writing guidelines for short papers of Mensch und Computer 2025: Writing Guidelines / Template for Short Papers.Submissions are made exclusively in electronic form in the ConferenceTool as contribution in the Track "MCI-WS06: Innovative Computerbasierte Musikinterfaces (ICMI)".
Please submit your contribution anonymously via the conference tool of Mensch und Computer 2025.
Contributions will be reviewed by a program committee. Accepted contributions will be published in the workshop proceedings of Mensch und Computer.
For artistic/practical contributions, we ask for an assessment of the possibility and technical effort of a demonstration during the workshop (e.g. space and hardware. You need to bring your own specialized equipment).
It is also possible to submit short abstracts for artistic positions or development projects and workshop reports (e.g., two pages). These will also be reviewed, but accepted contributions will not be published in the workshop proceedings but only mentioned on the ICMI website.
Participants in the workshop, especially at least one person whose contributions are to be published in the workshop proceedings, must register for the main conference.
Important Dates
| 10.06.2025 AoE | Submission of contributions according to the writing guidelines. |
| 08.07.2025 AoE | Notification of acceptance or rejection of the submission |
| 16.07.2025 AoE | Submission of the final version of up to 4 pages for the workshop proceedings |
| 31.08.2025 | Workshop at Mensch und Computer in Chemnitz |
Organization and Program Committee
The program committee consists of the organizers and additional members.Organizers on-site at the workshop:
Dr.-Ing. Lars Engeln, Technische Universität Dresden, Chair
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Berndt, Universität Paderborn
Prof. Dr. Miriam Akkermann, Freie Universität Berlin
Prof. Dr. Aristotelis Hadjakos, Center of Music and Film Informatics (cemfi)
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Trump, Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg
Prof. Holger Reckter, Hochschule Mainz
Additional members of the program committee:
Prof. Dr. Cornelius Pöpel, Hochschule Ansbach
Prof. Dr. Norbert Schnell, Hochschule Furtwangen
Dr. Egbert Jürgens, Music Technology Consultant
Contact: info@icmi-workshop.org