Charles Martin is a specialist in percussion, computer music and interactive media originally from Canberra but currently based in Piteå, Sweden. His music explores formal structures from computing and logic situated in the context of percussive gesture and timbre. He links percussion with electroacoustic music and other media through new interactive technologies. His works, described as “a thing of rare beauty” in The West Australian, have been featured throughout Australia, in Sweden and the USA.
Charles’ work is deeply informed by the processes and structures of mathematics, computing and logic which he studied in his undergraduate degree at the Australian National University along with classical percussion. In 2009, Charles completed a master’s degree in music performance at the ANU. His focus was the interaction between percussion and computer music technology. He is currently undertaking further graduate study in Piteå, Sweden where he has co-founded an international percussion group, Ensemble Evolution.
In his spare time, Charles traverses hidden worlds with his cross-artform group, Last Man to Die, re-writing history to their own future-past specifications. In the spirit of hacker culture, he endeavours to “release early, release often”, prototyping his works through rapid performance and revision.
Events
Electrobinge: a showcase
Last Man to Die’s “Transcendence”
