Werner Hasler is a composer, trumpet player and electronic musician who is known for his emphasis on live sampling and spatialisation. In addition to his sustained collaborative engagement with Jubran, he has engaged in numerous additional collaborative endeavours (in collaboration with Hugo Ryser, Carlo Niederhauser, Vincent Courtois and numerous additional artists) to create hybrid forms combining exhibition and installation with live performance. The OUT works (2016, 2018, 2019, 2022) comprise space-filling audio-visual installations, incorporating live sets with audio-surround. In the series of OUT Sessions, the artist creates site-specific hexaphonic audio surround sound bubbles in collaboration with the cellist Carlo Niederhauser. Werner Hasler is currently engaged in a number of collaborative projects. These include work with the composer, piano and synthesizer player Stefan Schultze, as well as 'Discontinued Rhythm' with the drummer Jim Black. Werner Hasler has also collaborated with a number of notable artists and composers, including Karl Berger, Jon Hassell, Sidsel Endresen, Hardi Kurda and Don Li, amongst many others. Furthermore, he is engaged in academic instruction, lecturing at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern, specialising in the fields of electronics and music.
