Recently a recipient of a grant from the Culture Association of Finland, Charlie spent a month in residence at the Arteles Foundation developing new-media work which earned him a cultural knighthood. Lately he has also performed video, electronics and piano work e to one million places at King's Place in London; his series of pieces Bíldudalur/Silence was exhibited at Gallerie Dynjandi in Bíldudalur, Iceland; his film Auto Video: The Cedar screened at the Museum of Rome, the Shanghai Expo, and the Larkhall Festival in Bath (UK); and his sound work A Capsule Held Static was performed as part of Sweden's Dragonfly Festival of ambient music.
He has held faculty positions in the USA at Northwestern University and Columbia College Chicago's MFA program in Music Composition for the Screen, where he spoke with Danny Elfman on Halloween evening and conferred Apple Logic Pro certification on many students. Concert performances include John Corigliano's Concerto For Piano and Orchestra with the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra as winner of that school's concerto competition, and the 2nd International Shostakovich Piano Competition in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he was awarded a jury prize for performance of new music. A fan of Frederic Rzewski and Antonio Bibalo, he has performed Midwest and American premieres, respectively, of works by both composers. In less-notated musical realms, he has also played in chamber/pop intersection group Mira Mira, as well as in Argentine tango electronic-fusion quartet Truco.