Performances

Performance is central to how we do research. Playing music with intelligent instruments — on stage, in galleries, and at festivals — is both a research method (studying musical AI outside the lab) and a creative output in its own right. Below is a record of concerts, installations, and productions involving lab members. Lab members (current and former) are shown in bold.

2026

• Concert 回溯 (Retrace): Co-constructing a Dual Feedback Apparatus Yichen Wang and Charles Martin NIME 2026 musical program · London, United Kingdom
• Festival Performing with intelligent instruments at SoundOut Charles Martin and Yichen Wang, with world-leading improvisers SoundOut Festival 2026 · Canberra, Australia
• Concert series SMCClablive #2 — Andromeda is Coming (Hyphae album launch) Charles Martin and Alec Hunter, with SMCClab students and staff SMCClablive #2, Big Band Room, ANU School of Music · Canberra, Australia · 3 June 2026
• Installation 别敢搏，爱无毁 (Don't Dare Gamble, Love Is Indestructible) Sandy Ma — mixed textiles, electronics, and timber Haunted Treasures, Platform (Canberra Contemporary) · Manuka, Canberra · 26 June – 19 July 2026

2025

• Concert series SMCClablive #1 — featuring Charlie Roberts SMCClab researchers with Charlie Roberts (WPI, USA) and Ben Swift (ANU) SMCClablive #1, Big Band Room, ANU School of Music · Canberra, Australia · 7 November 2025 watch video
• Installation Oh… What a Joy It Is to Be Held (Touching Wires) Sandy Ma — IMPSY-based commission Science Gallery Melbourne · Melbourne, Australia
• Live soundtrack Magic Lantern show — Heritage in the Limelight Charles Martin (live music), with Martyn Jolly and collaborators River of Art Festival, Narooma Kinema · Narooma, NSW · 4 October 2025
• Installation Dream Tent: a sonic reconstruction of a 19th-century mind therapy device Charles Martin and Martyn Jolly ANU Drill Hall Gallery (Light Source exhibition, RGB+ events) · Canberra, Australia · 17 September 2025

2024

• Concert Andromeda is Coming and Artificially Intelligent Friends Alec Hunter, Charles Martin, Yichen Wang, and Sandy Ma Big Band Room, ANU School of Music · Canberra, Australia · 29 May 2024
• Concert Unspoken Yichen Wang and Sandy Ma NIME 2024 musical program · Utrecht, Netherlands
• Live soundtrack Wrecked — magic lantern show Charles Martin and Alec Hunter, with Martyn Jolly Headland Writers Festival · Tathra, NSW · 19 October 2024

2023

• Concert Music(re)ality: A Collaborative Improvisation between Virtual and Real World Yichen Wang and Charles Martin NIME 2023 musical program · Mexico City, Mexico
• Concert 破境 (pò jìng) // beyond realms Yichen Wang and Sandy Ma ACMC 2023 (Australasian Computer Music Conference) · Parramatta, Sydney, Australia watch video

2022

• Creative work Cubing Sound Ensemble Yichen Wang and Charles Martin OzCHI 2022 creative program · Canberra, Australia
• Live soundtrack Magic Lantern performance — Heritage in the Limelight Charles Martin and Alec Hunter, with Martyn Jolly and Rachael Thoms Dynamo Hub, Gorman Arts Centre · Canberra, ACT · March 2022

2021

• Live soundtrack Magic Lantern performance — Heritage in the Limelight Charles Martin and Alec Hunter, with Martyn Jolly, Elisa deCourcy, and Rachael Thoms PhotoAccess · Canberra, ACT · 18 February 2021