Housing two large rooms with floor-to-ceiling walls of LED panels for the display of visual imagery, Adelaide’s Immersive Light and Art (ILA) is a unique venue for the performance of all kinds of music.

It was here, in November 2022, that the inaugural PianoLab concert series took place, a groundbreaking four day extravaganza of performances of piano music accompanied by spectacular visual imagery.

Curated by pianist Benjamin Nicholls (who performed in the inaugural PianoLab series) and ILA creative producer Lewis Godwin, this year’s PianoLab concert series comprised five concerts over 14 and 15 June, offering a more condensed but no less diverse, innovative and high-quality program.

The music is presented together with imagery that characterises the music’s thematic material, and the visuals can be designed to complement an existing composition or to combine with a new composition to approach a gesamkunstwerk.

PianoLab commenced with Korean-born pianist Vivian Choi Milton’s recital entitled Flight, featuring compositions inspired by or representing birds in flight.

Flight: Vivian Choi Milton. Photo © Oscar Lewis

Milton began with Franz Liszt’s Deux Légendes, No. 1, St. Francis of Assisi’s Sermon to the Birds and No. 2, St. Francis of Paola...