[NIME 2026] Workshops announcement (sign-ups, calls for participation and deadlines)

[Teresa Pelinski Ramos]

Dear NIME community,

The workshop programme for NIME 2026 is now online: https://nime2026.org/programme-by-track/. The workshop day will be held on June 23rd at Loughborough University of London. 

Workshops with open calls for participation 

Some workshops have open calls for participation with internal deadlines, if you want to attend them, please make sure to complete their submission requirements before the listed deadline:

Full day:

• #660 – Collective Attachments and Community Responsibilities: The Impact of NIME Research --> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (deadline: June 9th AoE) – 
• #669 – The Third Bank of the River Lea: Listening to Waterbodies in East London --> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (deadline: June 19th AoE) 

AM slot (9 am - 1 pm) 

• #649 – From Tacit to Tokenised: Critical Perspectives on AI Text-to-Audio Interfaces --> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (deadline: June 9th AoE) [HYBRID]
• #666 – Workshop on Haptic Musical Artifacts: Availability, Replicability, Sustainability of Force–Feedback Devices --> CALL FOR DEMOS (deadline May 29th AoE)

PM slot (2 pm - 6 pm)

• #642 – LATAM NIME GATHERING 2026 --> OPEN CALL (deadline: June 14th AoE) [HYBRID]
• #644 – I Resist The Body Electric: Subverting the Capture of Musical Gestures to Train AI Models --> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (deadline June 8th AoE)
• #692 – What Makes it Fun? Mapping Playful Interaction in Music-Making with AI --> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (deadline June 2nd AoE)
• #693 – Feedback-Actuated String Instruments Workshop -> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (deadline June 19th AoE – first-come, first-served basis)

Workshops without open calls for participation 

To attend a workshop without an open call for participation please register here: https://forms.gle/wqXE9jFXPeV5ZcBk7 . The form will be open until June 19th AoE but workshops will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis, so please do sign up as early as possible to secure your place. 

AM slot (9 am - 1 pm) 

• #638 – Data Knot: Machine Learning for low latency real-time performance [HYBRID]
• #652 – It’s Play NIME: Mapping Playfulness in NIME [HYBRID]
• #686 – Tilde: Collaborative Multi–Modal Music Making on the Web [HYBRID]
• #703 – Sounds Like Rain: Prototyping Flexible Electronics for Wearable Interactions with Water

PM slot (2 pm - 6 pm)

• #327 – Textile Testimonies: Feminist Sonic Practices with Domestic Instruments
• #641 – Respiratory Musical Interfaces (RMIs) in NIME [HYBRID]
• #658 – Future NIME Leaders Workshop
• #667 – Zero-Code Rapid Prototyping of Wireless MIDI Devices with ESP-NOW MIDI
  
  

Please be aware that only those who have registered for the full conference or the workshop day can attend the NIME 2026 Workshops. If you would like to attend, please see https://nime2026.org/registration/. For information about both physical and financial access to support your attendance see the Accessibility FAQ.

For any questions or concerns please email us at work...@nime2026.org.

Best wishes,
Teresa Pelinski & Pete Bennett
NIME 2026 Workshop Chairs

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https://teresapelinski.com

PhD student at the Augmented Instruments Laboratory and the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), Queen Mary University of London
Research Fellow at MusAI, Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London