Welcome to the website of artist, multi-disciplinary technologist, director, hacker, and composer Martin Backes

Exhibition Cadavre Exquis

I will be part of the groupshow “Cadavre Exquis” where I will show my artwork “Pixelhead”. The exhibition takes place at former Sparkassenfiliale Rupprechtstr. 35 in Berlin from Friday, 10 June 2011 to Friday, 2 July 2011.

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Sound Direction “The Lost”

In my role as Sound Director for Reynolds Reynolds new work “The Lost” I will be responsible for the whole sound and music of the entire movie. Following our successful collaboration “Six Easy Pieces”, I am really looking forward to the new collaboration.

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Exhibition neunundneunzig

I will be part of Exhibition #5 neunundneunzig at Gallery im namen des Raumes. There will be 99 surprise packages each for the price of 99 Euros. Every package is filled with one art work made by selected artists including myself. At the moment I can`t tell what […]

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Exhibition KlangLand 2010

I will be part of the groupshow KlangLand 2010 – KLANG ALS SPRACHE ALS KLANG. The exhibition takes place at Kunsttempel in Kassel from Thursday, 2 December 2010 to Thursday, 9 December 2010.

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New Sound Art Composition

I created this composition called Dron:ing especially for the third edition of the Hydrophonia sound art festival. Hydrophonia is a festival dedicated to hydrophonic sound art and raising public awareness of how man-made ocean noise affects marine life. The festival will take place on 29-30 October 2010 in […]

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Lectureship @ btk

The new semester starts and I am again responsible for the “Sound Communication and Design” course at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin…..great!

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