Bert Barten has been played on NTS in shows including The Lunacy of Flowers w/ Dave ID, featured first on 23 January 2024. Songs played include Alleen Met Z'n Tweeen.

Bert Barten is an enterpreneur, composer and musician based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Having toured Europe with his psychedelic rockband, Marsh Mallow, in the 1970s and 1980s, he released a solo album entitled Buried Alive in 1982. He composed and played keyboards on a Clan of Xymox album, worked with Pete and Greg Welsh at their Rich Farm Studios in Sussex and was part of the electronic dance project NYX with Hans Meijer. In 1995, Barten wrote the music for a Dutch TV series by environmental organisation, 'Natuurmonumenten'. The music was also released on CD.

Meanwhile, Barten worked as a director and producer on performances based on works by Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe and Homer. He won awards for breaking artistic boundaries in theatre, film and composing.

After a few years with relatively little musical output, Barten was captured by music again in 2016, when working (with Pieter Nooten and Stephen Tayler) on the project, 'Das Hinterland', which led to his most recent musical project, 'Talking Trees', an electronic/ambient project using recorded tree sounds. A studio album and a live recording of the project were released in 2018.