Giga-Hertz Award for Electronic Music
The Giga-Hertz Award distinguishes renowned composers for their lifetime achievement.The Giga-Hertz Production Awards serve the initiation and promotion of new projects, which are realized during a residence and are aimed at sound artists and composers.
Giga-Hertz Award in 2019, © ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe
The Giga-Hertz Award exists since 2007. International artists like Pierre Boulez, John Chowning, Brian Eno, Laurie Anderson or Pierre Henry have received the award in the past. It is the aim of the Giga-Hertz-Award to foster the innovative creativity in the field of digital music.
As an Icon of analogue synthesiser music with super long durations and one of the few women in this field was Eliane Radigue award in 2019. Here are some words of her thoughts in an interview with the composer in her apartment in Paris.
Rückschau auf den Giga-Hertz-Preis 2018, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst Medien Karlsruhe, 2018-11-24
"The Hub" was awarded the Giga-Hertz-Award for their exceptional influence in genres like Live Coding, Network Music, Circuit Bending and interactive improvisation at a time were most of these genres were not existing.
Impressions from the Giga-Hertz Award 2016, © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
In 2016 Curtis Roads received the Giga-Hertz Award. His influence on compositional thinking, and technical creation was quite strong. As one of the inventors of granular synthesis and editor of the "Computer Music Tutorial" he has influenced many composers.
"The Love Letters?", a concert for the Giga-Hertz Prize (2018-11-24) by Daniel ZeaZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
The Love Letter - Daniel Zea
During the Festival for the award ceremony many new audiovisual works are premiered in a series of concerts.
Trophy of the Giga-Hertz Award
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