Johannes Marx

Johannes Marx is producer, singer and guitarist of the german/japanese electro pop band Pitchtuner.

Pitchtuner performed more than 500 shows in the last decade all over Europe, Asia and USA. One highlight was, that the band was chosen to represent the city of Berlin at EXPO Shanghai in 2010. At the moment Johannes focuses on the production and release of the 4th album on the recently founded music label 'Burning Friends Records'. This label evolved from the network of creative people in the area of Berlin called 'Burning Friends'. It was founded by Johannes and aims to promote the collaboration and exchange of talent and services between different groups. It should allow professionalization for low budget productions.

Johannes also designs and produces his own instruments and MIDI controllers for his live shows. Improvement of Man-Machine interaction and refinement of Musician-'Electronic Instrument' interaction is crucial: How might we make electronic music performable more intuitively and physical?

Johannes Marx is psychologist, has special interest in Cognitive Psychology and is 2010 alumni of the 'School of Design Thinking Potsdam', the first school for innovation in Europe, which is designed according to the d.school at the Stanford University.