Prize/Award
Giga-Hertz Award for electronic music
- Presented by: Institute for Music and Acoustics and the SWR EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO
- Further information: http://www.giga-hertz-preis.de/
- Awarded: since 2007
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Giga-Hertz-Award for electronic music and Giga-Hertz-Award for Sound Art - Sound as medium of visual arts
In 2007, the ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics and the SWR EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO inaugurated the annual Giga-Hertz-Award for electronic music. The Giga-Hertz-Award aims at composers working in the fields of electronic and acousmatic music. With a total prize money of 94.000 € the Giga-Hertz-Award for electronic music and now for sound art is one of the most highly endowed awards of the genre. A Grand Prize and four Special Prizes are awarded once a year by an international jury.
Recipients of this award
Year | Placing | Awarded to | Awarded for |
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2013 | Winner | Daniel Blinkhorn | frostbYte: red sound |