Working as a producer, composer, saxophone/reed player and sound designer, Berlin-based TILMAN EHRHORN (aka Werken) appears on many jazz records as well as presenting himself as an electronic artists. Within the last few years he has released several critically acclaimed solo albums on Mille Plateaux and Resopal Schallware. He contributed tracks to several compilations and carried out some remix tasks. In addition to influences from contemporary electronic music, modern jazz is an important source of inspiration for his compositions, creating similarities with the improvisational niveau of jazz and contemporary composed music. Besides his artistic activity he works as head of study programme Audiodesign and professor of music design and music theory at SRH Berlin School of Popular Arts (formerly hdpk).