Photo by Óscar Bärbosa for ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS "Homecoming - Greatest Hits!"
Mars is someone you could meet on a train, or on the sidewalk, or through friends, or through this sentence.
As an intermedia sound artist, Mars' hybrid background includes multi-channel sound performance, electronic music production and sound design, and further interdisciplinary / conceptual media in an often research-driven practice bent on historical analysis.
Mars has an extensive career history working as a solo sound artist, club DJ, musician and sound designer in the choreographic and performing arts community in Berlin, with comissions and performances at the Spinnerei Leipzig, Sophiensaele Berlin, Haus der Kunst Munich, PopKultur Festival Berlin, Creamcake Berlin's 3hd Festival, Kunsthaus KuLe, e-werk Luckenwalde, Ballhaus Ost, as well as the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, the Institute for Electronic Arts, ABC No Rio, Brooklyn College, and further locations in the United States. Mars' work has been supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Musikfonds e.V., Alfred University, Creamcake Berlin, Amplify Berlin, and most recently Makerspace NYC. Mars performed as a resident DJ and collective member of BODYSNATCH, a monthly underground club night in Berlin focused on bass-forward music that sustained a dedicated cult following from 2011 - 2022.
In 2025, Mars is developing an improvisational live electronic practice utilizing appropriated bagpipe tunings with "West Coast" synthesis techniques, while thinking about outdoor sound, electromagnetic and RF signals, accessible event organizing, the past, and the present. Mars is the co-editor of Honey vol. 2, a zine about friendship, together with artists Opashona Ghosh and Dylan Spencer-Davidson, launched in Berlin, London and New York.
Mars is honored to be a current artist in residence at MakerSpace NYC, working on a year-long, outdoor composition for a custom 70v horn system to be installed near the shores of the Narrows, the very tidal strait along which Mars was born and raised.
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