Mars is someone you could meet on a train, or on the sidewalk, or through friends, or through this sentence. Mars was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York before living briefly in Portland, Oregon and for a long time in Berlin, Germany. Mars lives in Brooklyn today.
As an intermedia sound artist, Mars' hybrid background includes multi-channel sound performance, electronic music production and sound design, with a long history of interdisciplinary collaboration. Sounds range from rhythmic, club-inflected music to atmospheric sound, data sonification and musique concrète. The work is often, but not always, research-driven, touching on topics such as climate catastrophe (Detuning) interdependency and responsibility (Transpires among us, PLAGUE!, Outer Listening), the fallout of extractivism (Wismut: A Nuclear Choir, shred the means), and coerced confession (Freedom from Speech), for example.
Mars has had comissions, 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 by the Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Musikfonds e.V., Alfred University, Creamcake Berlin, Amplify Berlin, and most recently Makerspace NYC. Mars was a resident DJ at BODYSNATCH Berlin, a legendary underground club night at Monarch Berlin that sustained a dedicated cult following from 2011-2022.
In New York, Mars is the founder of the new event series Outer Listening, a format dedicated to the combination of words and sound. The series brings together writers, poets, thinkers, and other artists of the word, with sound artists, musicians, and technologists in collaborative and solo guest performances bookended by experimental DJ sets from resident DJs blending danceable music with field recordings of weather events or archival recordings. Outer Listening is realized in collaboration with danilo machado, Ana Božičević, Saar Shemesh and Andrea Atehourta.
Photo by Óscar Bärbosa for ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS "Homecoming - Greatest Hits!"
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