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Giga-Hertz Festival for Electronic Music and Sound Art 2023

»Radical Polytronics«

Wed, December 06 – Sun, December 10, 2023

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ZKM | Center of Art and Media Karlsruhe, graphic: 2xGoldstein
Location
Cube
Media Theater
Music Balcony
Foyer

Zum Projekt

Concerts, DJ sets, artist talks and workshops for all ages: For five days in December, you can experience the entire spectrum of contemporary electronic music and sound art. The highlight is the presentation of the Giga-Hertz Award on Saturday evening.

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»Radical Polytronics«

At the Giga-Hertz Festival 2023 we celebrate together with composers and musicians the radical power and fascinating diversity of electronic music and sound art. The name of this year's festival understands the ZKM | Karlsruhe as a laboratory for forward-looking experiments, open to the whole variety and range within electronic music.

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Program (Times are still subject to change)

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    Wednesday, Dezember 06, 2023

    8 pm, Concert, Cube
    »Sonic Moods«
    Opening concert with Oren Ambarchi & Puce Mary

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    Thursday, December 07, 2023

    7 pm, Concert, media theater

    John Croft »...ne l'aura che trema«, German premiere
    Beatrice Dillon »Seven Reorganisations«
    Christian Mason »Hölderlin's Madness«, World premiere

    Performers
    Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano)
    Thorwald Jørgensen (theremin)

    Explore Ensemble
    Taylor MacLennan (flute), Sam Roberts (clarinet), George Barton (percussion), Siwan Rhys (piano), Sam Cave (guitar), David López Ibañez (violin), Deni Teo (cello), Nicholas Moroz (electronics)

    SWR Experimentalstudio
    Tim Abramczik, Joachim Haas & Maurice Oeser (Sound Director)
    Mirella Weingarten, Wiebke Pöpel (video installation)

    The concert is funded by the state of Baden-Württemberg as part of the aGLOBE project.

     

    9 pm, Concert, Cube
    »Acousmatic Dreamland«
    By and with Ludger Brümmer
    Pieces: »La cloche sans vallées«, »Deconstructing Double District«, »Nyx«

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    Friday, December 08, 2023

    2 pm, BÄM
    Workshop Sound@BÄM – special edition of the BÄMlab as part of the Giga-Hertz-Festival

    6 pm, Lecture Hall 
    Book Presentation
    The future viability of acoustic ecology: On the new edition of R. Murray Schafer's »The Tuning of the World« presented by Prof. Sabine Breitsameter

    PopExperimental concerts
    8 pm, Cube 
    Thomas Köner »Compendium Narcoticum« (Premiere)

    9:15 pm, Media Theater
    bela (PopExperimental Honorary Mention 2023)
    This Machine! (Advancement Award PopExperimental 2023)

    10:30 pm, Foyer 
    Get Together & DJ Performances I:
    luxxuryproblems b2b agnes

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    Saturday, December 09, 2023 (Free entry)

    2 pm, Concert, Cube
    »Uncharted Interactions«
    World premieres of the production award winners 2021/2022

    Yu-Jung Chen »After the Ashes«
    with Yangkai Lin (cello)

    Yvette Janine Jackson »EXTANT«
    Sam Dunscombe (clarinet), Judith Hamann (cello),
    SWR Experimentalstudio: Joachim Haas & Maurice Oeser (Sound Directors)

    3 pm, artist workshops
    Media workshop
    Live Coding: Sonic Pi with Michael Vierling

    Media theater 
    »Sonic Meditations« after Pauline Oliveros by and with Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell & Hannah White) 

    From 6:30 pm
    Welcome Address

    Arne Braun,
    State Secretary, Ministry of Science,
    Research, and the Arts, Baden-Württemberg

    Dominika Szope,
    Head of the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Karlsruhe

    Awarding of the Giga-Hertz Award 2023
    with concerts of the 2023 award winners, Cube 

    • This Machine! »Someplace Safer«, 7'30'' 
    • Jessica Ekomane »Manifolds«, (2022), for electronics & acousmonium, 17'28''
    • Lea Bertucci »A Visible Length of Light«, (2021 - 23), for alto saxophone, flute & electronics, 20'
    • Laurie Spiegel »East River Dawn«, (1976), for GROOVE (minicomputer connected to an analog sound synthesis system), 14'16''


    Get Together & DJ Performances II (from 9:30 pm)
    OHNOSIGNAL b2b CXXX

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    Sunday, December 10, 2023 (Free entry)

    From 3 pm, Cube
    Lifetime Achievement: Laurie Spiegel 

    Panel discussion »The Great Unknown: Musicking in the Age of Early Computer Music«
    With Bettina Wackernagel, Dorit Chrysler & Ludger Brümmer
    in German language

    Ludger Brümmer in conversation with Laurie Spiegel
    in English language

     

    6 pm, Concert, Cube

    »A Chronological Retrospective«
    Laurie Spiegel

    Statement from Laurie Spiegel about her music and music tech

    Laurie Spiegel »Four Short Visits to Different Worlds: I. Swells,  II. Mines, III. Crying Tone, IV. A Garden«, (ca. 1971), for Buchla synthesizer

    Laurie Spiegel »Pentachrome«, (1974), for the hybrid system GROOVE (minicomputer connected to an analog sound synthesis system)

    Laurie Spiegel »Three Modal Pieces: I. A Cosmos, II. A Legend, III. A Myth«, (1982 – 83), for computer-controlled analog synthesizer Mcleyvier

    Laurie Spiegel »Passage«, (1987), for Mac IIci, Amiga 1000 & Yamaha TX816 FM Tone Generator System

    Laurie Spiegel »Sound Zones«, (ca. 1988), for »Music Mouse«, Mac & Yamaha TX816 FM Tone Generator System

    Laurie Spiegel »Improvisation on a ‘Concerto Generator’«, (1977), for Alles Machine (Bell Labs Digital Synthesizer) as video recording

    Laurie Spiegel »A Paraphrase«, (2019), for theremin & piano

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Lea Bertucci

An artfully flowing black and white picture of Lea Bertucci on saxophone
© Ryan Collard

Jessica Ekomane

Jessica Ekomane standing at her laptop among a seated crowd during a performance
© Caroline Campeau

Nyokabi Kariuki

Nyokabi Kariuki stands in front of her set during a performance with microphone in hand
© Tojo Andrianarivo

Laurie Spiegel

Laurie Spiegel während einer Performance
© Louis Forsdale Roll

Manuel Rochalturbide

Black and white image of Manuel Rochalturbide sitting at a mixing desk
© Pablo Ortiz Monasterio

Piotr Kurek

Piotr Kurek during a performance at keyboard and mixing desk
© Marta Szewczyk

bela

bela during a performance with microphone in one hand and open book in the other hand
© Grzegorz Jasina / courtesy of Ephemera Festivals

Sophia Mitiku

Sophia Mitiku during a performance with microphone on a dark stage with green and red light
© Nayab Ikram
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Giga-Hertz Award 2023

The Giga-Hertz Award, established in 2007 and endowed with 25,000 euros, is dedicated to composition and offered by the ZKM | Karlsruhe and the SWR EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO. A Main Prize is awarded for lifetime achievement of composers (10,000 euros) as well as two Production Awards (5,000 euros each) for new, not yet realized pieces. In 2022, the PopExperimental Advancement Award, endowed with 5,000 euros, was added. The prize supports artists from the field of experimental pop and club music whose pieces combine the more academic electronic music with contemporary trends in popular music. It is donated by the Fördergesellschaft ZKM/HfG e.V. and awarded this year for the first time together with the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg.

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The winners 2023

U.S. composer Laurie Spiegel receives this year's Giga-Hertz Award for Lifetime Achievement. The Production Awards go to American composer and performer Lea Bertucci and French-born sound artist Jessica Ekomane. The Finnish-German trio This Machine! receives the PopExperimental Advancement Award.

Honorable mentions / Giga-Hertz Award 2023
Manuel Rocha Iturbide // Nyokabi Kariũki // Piotr Kurek 

Honorable mentions / PopExperimental Advancement
Award bela // Sophia Mitiku // Rashaad Newsome

To the Jury Statements

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    Laurie Spiegel, 1982

    Giga-Hertz Main Award

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    This Machine!

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    This Machine!
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Honorary Mentions / Giga-Hertz Award 2023

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Honorary Mentions / PopExperimental Advancement Award 2023

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Credits

Dominik Kautz (project manager and curator), Ludger Brümmer (curator)

Jury

Giga-Hertz Award
George Lewis (Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music & Area Chair of Composition at Columbia University)
Małgorzata Plysa (Co-Director & Curator, Unsound & Ephemera Festival)
Diana Ferreira (Director & Curator, Arte no Tempo Portugal)

PopExperimental
​​Hans Nieswandt (DJ, Music Producer, Author & Artistic Director Institute for Pop-Music 2014–19, Folkwang University of the Arts)
Pamela Owusu-Brenyah (Music Consultant, Program Curator Pop-Kultur & Afro x Pop)
Jovanka von Wilsdorf (Songwriter BMG Rights Management, Creative Consultant, Initiator DIANA AI Song Contest & Female*Producer Price)

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