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 Online application Giga-Hertz Award 2018
Summary:Electroacoustic Competition
Deadline: 31 May 2018
Date Posted: 24 May 2018
Details: Since 2007, the Giga-Hertz Award for electronic and acousmatic music has been jointly awarded by the ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics and the Freiburg EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO of the SWR.

In 2018, the Giga Hertz Prize is endowed with a total of 20,000 € prize money. The two internationally oriented Giga Hertz Production Awards, endowed with 5000 €, serve to initiate and promote new projects. Candidates are judged on the basis of a composition not more than five years old and a proposal for a projected work. The focus of the Special Prizes is to honor a work, and not a person. The competition is advertised publicly each year and is open to composers of all ages.

All compositions submitted should meet at least one of the following criteria:
• Compositions using live electronics
• Composition for fixed media
• Mixed music
• Concert installation
• Transmedial composition
• Experimental sound performance
• Interdisciplinary performance (with relevant music or sound components)

This year, the topic area of artificial intelligence should be given particular attention in the selection of the working scholarship. In this context, artists should be motivated to apply in particular with musical works which have been realized through the use of artificial neural networks. Alongside this, other works which have been realized with digital or electronic technology can also be submitted.

Prize Money
The Special Prize of 5.000 € consists of a project realization grant with which the award winners realize their submitted exposé at the ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics (IMA) in Karlsruhe. This includes technical support and guidance by the studio.

The realization grant covers the costs for travel to and from the location of realization, plus board and accommodation while working there. The scholarship is used to realize a work with electronics in a studio selected by the jury. The decision about where the work will be realized is taken by the jury on the basis of the aesthetic orientation of the composer and the specific details of the submitted project. The working stay should not be less than two months at the ZKM | IMA or two to four weeks at the SWR Experimentalstudio respectively. It is envisaged that the new work will be premiered at the award ceremony of the Giga-Hertz-Award the following year and also broadcast on the radio. However, recipients of the special prizes have no legal entitlement to specific services from the ZKM or the SWR Experimentalstudio or to the performance or radio broadcast of their prize-winning works or the new works resulting from the realization grants.

Application deadline: May 31, 2018!

Please read the following information carefully before you enter. Registration is via online application: You enter all the necessary information on an online form. Send it online, together with your complete application documents and material before May 31, 2018.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact: gigahertz@zkm.de.

The following are required for your application
• For the online-upload (formats: doc, pdf, rtf, tiff, jpg, txt):
• biography with details of artistic career
• portrait photograph of the artist
• description of the submitted work (work should not be more than five years old), technical information on this work, and optional, the score and image files of the work

Web Site:zkm.de/en/research-production/awards/giga-hertz-award/online-application-giga-hertz-award-2018