Tom Arthurs is an internationally acclaimed trumpeter and composer who has been leading the jazz and contemporary music department at HKB Bern since 2018. His doctoral thesis, “Secret Gardeners: An Ethnography of Improvised Music in Berlin (2012-13)”, is an in-depth study of avant-garde music-making in Berlin. As a performer, he has recorded for Clean Feed, ECM, Ozella, Act, Intakt, Jazzwerkstatt, Babel, and Not Applicable, and has appeared at numerous festivals and cities, including North Sea, Cheltenham, Moers, Victoriaville, Jonquieres, Bath, Jazzdor, London, Jazz Jantar, Jazztopad, and Jerusalem. His work has been broadcast by BBC, Radio France, SWR, WDR, RBB, ARD, P2 (Denmark), and Ö1 (Austria). He has delivered lectures, talks, and workshops at institutions such as the Jazz Institut Berlin, the University of Oxford, the University of Edinburgh, the Hochschulübergreifende Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT/UdK), the University of Potsdam, and the International Jazz Platform (Lodz).

Isambard Khroustaliov is the pseudonym of electronic musician, composer, and sound artist Sam Britton. His work spans composition, musical performance, sound design, installation, and software development. He holds a PhD in music and electronic composition and has been a composer-in-residence at IRCAM in Paris and STEIM in Amsterdam. Isambard Khroustaliov has also collaborated with the London Sinfonietta as part of the Writing the Future commissions, with Aphex Twin for the Remote Orchestra project, and is an associate member of Matthew Herbert’s New Radiophonic Workshop. Since 1997, he has recorded and released music through various independent electronic labels in the UK, Europe, and the US (PAN, Temporary Residence, The Leaf Label, and Output Recordings) and performs internationally with his ensembles, as a solo artist, and in collaboration with numerous improvisers and ensembles. Notable past projects include Long Division, a suite for two improvising musicians and autonomous electronics, and Fake Fish Distribution, an album in 1,000 variations created using generative and parametric software techniques.

Britt Hatzius is a visual artist working across film, video, sound, and performance. Her works have been exhibited internationally at performance and media arts festivals, institutions, and galleries. Her research explores ideas surrounding language and the potential of discrepancies and mistranslations. She graduated in Fine Art Media from Chelsea College of Art in London in 2002 and earned a Master’s degree in Photography and Urban Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2005, where she occasionally engages in academic research. She has collaborated with numerous visual artists, performers, theater directors, and sound artists and is actively involved in visual-sound collaborations with the Not Applicable Artists collective. She is currently based in Heidelberg, Berlin, and Brussels.

Ph. Credits: Britt Hatzius