Copenhagen-based Australian composer–instrumentalist. After years of approaching the pipe organ like a modular synthesizer, he built the (Re)constructed Pipe Organ from salvaged pipes taken from decommissioned churches across Northern Denmark. Its mechanics are fully exposed: motor, bellows, windchest, tubing. An organ laid bare.

His album Although Changed, I Arise the Same (Thanatosis) follows Poor_in_Spirit (OOH-Sounds, 2025), listed in Boomkat’s Discoveries of 2025, where his music was described as having “vibrant new energy…comparable to Éliane Radigue.” His work has also received a full six hearts in Politiken, described as “a beautiful and overwhelming experience.”

He has performed with the (Re)constructed Pipe Organ in churches, industrial spaces and concert halls across Europe — Marmorkirken and Brønshøj Water Tower in Copenhagen, Ballhaus Ost in Berlin, Grand Hospice in Brussels, Stavanger Konserthus — and festivals including Organ Sound Art, Labor Sonor and N:ear.

Makes music in Copenhagen under the name Blue Luminaire. His work spans choirs, chamber music and orchestras, alongside film — contributing music to Harpiks, the Zentropa-produced film by Daniel Borgman, and to Alexander Tovborg: Troens Ridder (2019), a documentary by filmmaker Andreas Johnsen.

Separation (GLIO, 2018) was his debut: instrumental, self-made. Terroir (Bella Union, 2022) followed — fourteen musicians, two days in Koncertkirken, and Martin stepping in front of a microphone for the first time. Louder Than War called it “almost intoxicating in its elegance”; KLASSISK gave it five stars.

Paul Morley has written about his music in The Guardian, placing it alongside Sigur Rós, Morton Feldman and Jon Hopkins. His work has been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Barbican, Wigmore Hall and DR Koncerthuset, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Danish Radio P2, Deutschlandradio Kultur and ABC Classic.