
The Giga-Hertz Award for Electronic Music has been awarded since 2007 by ZKM | Karlsruhe and SWR Experimentalstudio. This year’s artists and composers will be honored during a two-day festival.
This year, the Giga-Hertz Production Prizes will be awarded to prize winners with a focus on immersive, audiovisual works. In addition to the festive awards ceremony, the winning compositions will be performed. The award ceremony will take place on the evening of November 28, 2020 in the digital presence of all prize winners. Due to the conditions of this year, the event will be held exclusively online and broadcasted entirely and free via live stream on the ZKM Website.
The Giga-Hertz Award is dedicated to the world-famous physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894). At the end of the 19th century he taught at the Karlsruhe Technical University (now the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), and it was there that he discovered the Electromagnetic Waves. The purpose of the Award is to promote electronic music and to give incentives through new tonal and compositional possibilities.
The event will be held in English.
Festival Program
Saturday, November 28, 2020 (time zone: CET)
7 pm | Giga-Hertz Award Ceremony and Presentation of the Laureates 2020 | |
8.30 pm | Giga-Hertz Award Concert I |
Sunday, November 29, 2020
4 pm | Film Screening | »No Ideas But in Things« | |
5.45 pm | Panel Discussion Prof. Ludger Brümmer, Prof. Dr. Rudolf Frisius, Prof. Dr. habil. Sabine Sanio and Julia Gerlach in conversation. | |
7 pm | Works by the winner of the Main Award |
Jury Statements on the Award Winners
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- François J. Bonnet on Main Winner Alvin Lucier
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- Detlef Heusinger on Production Prize Winner h0nh1m (Chris Cheung)
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- Palle Dahlstedt on Production Prize Winner Mark Pilkington
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- Björn Gottstein on Honorary Mention Anni Rüfenacht & Sandra Schmid
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- Ludger Brümmer on Honorary Mention Siamak Anvari
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- Website
- The event via live stream
- Project team
Ludger Brümmer (Artistic Director)
Dominik Kautz (Project Management & Production Organization, Program Brochure)
Sophie Caecilia Hesse (Project Organization)
Sebastian Schottke (Sound Engineer & Sound Direction)
Hans Gass (Light and Event Technician)
Jakob Schreiber (Assistant Sound Direction & Light/Event Technician)
Gil Monteverde (Intern)Video Studio Team
Christina Zartmann (Broadcast Manager, Camera)
Moritz Büchner (Technical Director)
Andy Koch (Visual Director)
Xenia Leidig (Graphic Art, Camera)
Jule Heinzmann (Camera)
Tim Wenz (Live Stream Support)
Communication & Marketing
Dominika Szope (Head of ZKM | Communication & Marketing)
Lena Becker, Sabine Jäger, Lena Schneider (Website and Communication)
Adrian Koop (Marketing)Jury
Natasha Barrett
François Bonnet
Ludger Brümmer
Palle Dahlstedt
Björn Gottstein
Detlef Heusinger
Peter WeibelMusicians Concert II
Núria Cunillera Salas
Tayuko Nakao-Seibert
Nathan Watts- Organization / Institution
- ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe