As an intermedia sound artist, Mars' hybrid background includes multi-channel sound performance, research-driven sonic arts, electronic music production, and sound engineering, with a long history of interdisciplinary collaboration in choreography and theatre alongside a solo career.
Mars' sounds range from textural essayistic sonic works often sampling speech from lectures, interviews and other sources, to highly rhythmic improvisational electronic performances making use of repetition and energy control drawing from years of experience as a club DJ. Mars specializes in work with granular synthesis, digital and analog feedback methods, virtual modular environments utilizing West Coast synthesis techniques, DJing, improvisation, and conceptual and interdisciplinary dialogue. Mars was a resident DJ at BODYSNATCH Berlin, a monthly underground club night at Monarch Berlin that sustained a dedicated cult following from 2011-2023.
Mars' work is influenced by a history of deep professional immersion and collaboration in contemporary choreography, and is inflected with Mars' prior training in fine arts and performance art. The shape of every work is driven by concept, with thought given to audience arrangement, staging, and installation. As a result, work takes different forms, from a live set, to a radio broadcast, to an event series, to a year-round outdoor sonic sculpture, for example.
The work is often, but not always, research-driven, touching on topics such as climate catastrophe (Detuning, 2025) interdependency and responsibility (Transpires among us, 2022, PLAGUE!, 2020-2021, Outer Listening, 2025-), the fallout of extractivism (Wismut: A Nuclear Choir, 2019, shred the means, 2019), and coerced confession (Freedom from Speech, 2018), for example.
Mars has had solo commissions, interdisciplinary collaborations, and performances at the Spinnerei Leipzig, Sophiensaele Berlin, Haus der Kunst Munich, PopKultur Festival Berlin, Creamcake Berlin's 3hd Festival, e-werk Luckenwalde, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, the Institute for Electronic Arts, Brooklyn College, and further locations in the United States and Europe. Mars' work has been previously supported with grants and residencies from the Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Musikfonds e.V., Alfred University, Creamcake Berlin, Amplify Berlin, and most recently Makerspace NYC.
Mars works locally as a solo performing artist; as the General Manager of Tamizdat Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to international artist mobility; as the founder of Outer Listening, an atelier-like collaborative event series in New York City dedicated to the combination of words and sounds, together with Andrea Atehortua, Ana Bozicevic, danilo machado and Saar Shemesh; and the host of Edge Case, Mars' open format DJ-centric radio show on Maker Park Radio NYC. Mars is co-editor of Honey Vol. 2, a zine focused on friendship, together with Opashona Ghosh (UK) and Dylan Spencer-Davidson (DE). Mars is available as a sound engineer for live events and does tutoring for beginner DJs.
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