I'm Charles Martin.

Charles Martin playing a synthesiser in a dark street.

I'm a computer scientist specialising in music technology, musical AI and human-computer interaction at The Australian National University, Canberra.

I develop musical apps such as MicroJam, and PhaseRings,research creative AI, and perform music with Ensemble Metatone and Andromeda is Coming.

At the ANU, I lead research into intelligent musical instruments. My lab's focus is on developing new intelligent instruments, performing new music with them, and bringing them to a broad audience of musicians and performers.

This website includes my personal blog, portfolio of projects and music, and academic profile.

Recent Posts

Amazing weekend of performances at SoundOut 2026

01 Feb 2026

I had an amazing weekend performing at SoundOut 2026 at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery performing with some incredible Australian and international musicians. SoundOut is described as “one of the gateway exploratory music-art events in Australia” and a gem in Canberra’s yearly music schedule.

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SMCClablive #1 concert

24 Nov 2025

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.

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Concert with Andromeda is Coming and Artificially Intelligent Friends

31 May 2024

Andromeda is Coming, the exploratory music project of (me!) Charles Martin and Alec Hunter recently developed a concert of new works all featuring research into intelligent (or AI-enabled) musical instruments. Incorporating new perspectives in our work, we invited two members of my ANU SMCClab research lab, Yichen Wang and Sandy Ma to join us for a 60-minute concert of live audio-visual performances.

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Photoblogging in 2023 like it's 2008

31 Jan 2023

I’ve been trying to take photos a bit more intentionally a regularly again, helped by a new (to me) Fujfilm X-T2 camera. I’ve ended up posting some images on pixelfed.au regularly, and hoping to put something quick up most days.

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