
As part of a two-day event, the ZKM | Karlsruhe and SWR EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO will present the 2022 Giga-Hertz Award for Electronic Music and Sound Art (€ 25,000)—the fifteenth time the honor will be bestowed.
In addition to the main prize, two production prizes will also be awarded. This year is the first time that the new PopExperimental Advancement Award, donated by the ZKM/HfG e. V. association, will honor experimental electronic pop and club music.
The Giga-Hertz Award is named in honor of the world-famous physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), who discovered electromagnetic waves during his tenure at the Karlsruher Technische Universität (today the KIT) in the late nineteenth century. The award was instituted on the initiative of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.
The award winners
This year, the main prize of € 10,000 for lifetime achievement goes to Argentine composer Daniel Teruggi. Taiwanese sound and multimedia artist Yu-Jung Chen and Peter Gahn, who has been researching and teaching as Professor of Composition/New Media/Sound Studies at the Nuremberg University of Music since 2015, receive the Giga-Hertz Production Awards (€ 5,000 each). The new PopExperimental Advancement Award (€ 5,000) goes to the Ugandan collective Nyege Nyege. Oslo-based Hungarian sound tinkerer Bálint Laczkó, Colombian sound and media artist Claudia Robles-Angel, and U.S. composer Timothy Roy are recognized with honorable mentions.
The award ceremony will take place on November 26.
Overview of the program
Friday, Nov 25, 8 pm
aGLOBE > Natur Morte – A Concert by Ensemble Experimental
Saturday – Sunday , Nov 26 – 27 all day, first floor
Installations:
Claudia Robles-Angel »REFLEXION – In sync/out of sync«, (2019)
for electroluminescent wires, pulse sensors & 8 channel electronics
h0nh1m »MindFlux«, (2022)
for electronics, magnets & fluorescent tubes
world premiere
Jury Statements on the Award Winners
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- Main Award to Daniel Teruggi
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- Production Award to Yu-Jung Chen's audiovisual work »Lightscape of the Silence« | Ludger Brümmer
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- Production Award to Peter Gahn for »De-escalating Skies I+III« | Detlef Heusinger
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- Giga-Hertz PopExperimental Advancement Award to the Nyege Nyege collective | Zuri Maria Daiß & Nahuel Stoppa
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- Honorary Mention for Bálint Laczkó and his composition »Itara« | Elsa Justel
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- Honorary Mention for Claudia Robles-Angel and her installation »REFLEXION – In Sync / Out of Sync« | Huihui Cheng
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- Honorary Mention for Timothy Roy and his audiovisual piece »dans les dents de la guivre« | Huihui Cheng
- Credits
- Ludger Brümmer (Artistic director)
- Dominik Kautz (Project management)
- Jury
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Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Peter Weibel (Artistic-scientific director ZKM | Karlsruhe)
Prof. Ludger Brümmer (Composer, ZKM | Hertz-Lab, Professor of Composition for Digital Media, HfM Trossingen)
Detlef Heusinger (Composer, director, conductor, artistic director Ensemble Experimental & artistic director SWR Experimentalstudio until Sept. 2022 )
Huihui Cheng (Composer)
Elsa Justel (Composer)PopExperimental
Prof. Udo Dahmen (Artistic Director and CEO Popakademie Baden-Württemberg & Vice President German Music Council)
Zuri Maria Daiß (Music Curator, Freelance Cultural Worker CTM Festival, etc.)
Stefanie Schäfer (SWR3 Music Editorial Office)
Nahuel Stoppa (Pop Culture Editor, Arte TRACKS Berlin)- Organization / Institution
- ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe