
ZKM and the EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO of the SWR have been awarding the Giga-Hertz Award for electronic music since 2007. In 2018, the prizewinners will again be celebrated with concerts, performances and award ceremonies as part of a two-day festival.
This year, visionaries from the fields of »Network« and »Live Coding« as well as for the first time from the field of »Artificial Intelligence« will be honored.
In addition to the festive award ceremony followed by a reception, the production prize winners of recent years will perform performances and concerts.
The Giga-Hertz Award is dedicated to the world-famous physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894). He taught at the Technical University of Karlsruhe (now known as the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) at the end of the 19th century and discovered electromagnetic waves there. The objective of the award is to promote electronic music and to provide an impetus through new tonal and compositional possibilities.
Retrospective Thoughts on the Giga-Hertz Award
Preface

Special Award Artificial Intelligence 2018 | Martino Sarolli (Italy)
The Special Prize for an AI-related work is given to Martino Sarolli for his work »Lapidario_E01«. This is the first half of a distich about mineral life, conceived as a multi-channel piece for live electronics. Sarolli uses state-of-the art machine-learning technologies to re-synthesize a complex sound material under live control. »Lapidario_E01«, on the theme of silicon crystals - the very basis of computer technology - is composed by a human, but combines the best of both worlds. It is elegant, organic, and powerful.
– Author: Palle Dahlstedt

Program
Saturday, November 24, 2018
7 pm | Giga-Hertz Award ceremony
| Media Theater | ||
following | Concert of the award winners 2018
| Cube |
Sunday, November 25, 2018
4 pm | Lecture of the Giga-Hertz main award winners 2018 with subsequent conversation | Cube | ||
6 pm | Concert of the winners 2016 and 2017 with presentation of the works of Elvira Garifzyanova and Daniel Zea (2016) created by the production prizes and Maurilio Cacciatore (2017) | Cube |
Flyer
Giga-Hertz Award 2018
Program
Giga-Hertz Award 2018
- Project Team
Ludger Brümmer (Artistic Direction)
Dorte Becker, Sophie Caecilia Hesse (Project management, program brochure)
Benjamin Miller, Anton Kossjanenko (Sound engineer)
David Luchow (Sound technician)
Anton Kossjanenko (Sound recordings)
Hans Gass, Manuel Weber, Hartmut Bruckner (Light and event technology)
Christian Berkes, Marco Kempf, Manuel Urrutia (Hands Light and event technology)Jury
Ludger Brümmer (Composer, Head of ZKM | Hertz-Lab)
Christiane Riedel (Managing Director of ZKM | Karlsruhe)
Alexandra Cardenas (Composer, Improviser, Programmer)
Detlef Heusinger (Artistic Director of SWR Experimentalstudio)
Palle Dahlstedt (Composer, Professor for »Art & Technology« at Aalborg Universität)
Björn Gottstein (Muscologist, Artistic Director of Donaueschinger Musiktage)- Organization / Institution
- ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Accompanying program
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- Sun, November 25, 20186 pm
- Giga-Hertz-Preis 2018: Konzert II
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Concert
Kubus
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- Sun, November 25, 20184 pm
- Lecture of the Giga-Hertz main award winners 2018
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Kubus
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- Sat, November 24, 20187 pm
- Giga-Hertz Award 2018: Award Ceremony
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Medientheater
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- Sat, November 24, 20187 pm
- Giga-Hertz Award 2018: Concert I
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Concert
Kubus