SMCClab Sound, Music, and Creative Computing at ANU

SMCClablive #1 wrapup

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The first of our smcclablive concerts was held at the Peter Karmel Building Big Band Room on 7 November 2025. Works were presented from researchers and students in the ANU SMCClab with guests Charlie Roberts from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) and Ben Swift from the ANU School of Cybernetics.

The video from our concert is available here (YouTube) and below.

It was a great evening with a busy audience of interested folks at the intersections of art, music, and computing in Canberra.

We plan to run smcclablive as an end-of-semester event every six months featuring visiting artists and researchers from Australia and around the world.

Program

  1. Yijia Wang - Objects in VR
  2. Ben Swift - Live Code
  3. Sandy Ma and Suhani Narang - Webcam Duet
  4. Charles Martin and Yichen Wang - Beep Duet
  5. Charlie Roberts - Live Code in Mutter (world premiere performance!)

Images

A performer in an AR headset reaches into the air while their tracked blue hands and floating spheres are projected on the screen behind them

Overhead view of the Big Band Room stage: one performer seated at a laptop while another speaks to the audience beside tables of synthesisers and controllers

A live coder seated at a laptop on stage with Scheme code projected on the large screen above

Two performers in the Webcam Duet — one seated at a laptop, one crouched on a patchwork cushion — with the webcam face-tracking interface projected above

Close-up of a performer’s setup: a laptop with a NIME 2025 sticker, a patched modular synthesiser, effects pedals and MIDI controllers on a black cloth

A performer lit by a single spotlight, playing a keyboard and patched synthesiser between two laptops

Screenshot of the Pure Data patch driving the Beep Duet, with a latent-space visualisation window and a video feed of the two performers on stage

Wide view of Charlie Roberts live coding at a laptop on stage, with his Mutter language and browser console projected above

Charlie Roberts live coding at a standing laptop, silhouetted against projected Mutter code reading “this is my debut performance using my new language, called mutter!”

The six SMCClablive #1 performers standing together on stage for a group photo after the concert