Qwartz Electronic Music Awards is a promotional and supportive program dedicated to new and electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

. It recognizes and awards grants to independent labels and artists. It brings together the different waves of new and electronic music, from the most demanding to the most festive, from electro-acoustic to techno. Qwartz creates and enhances the links between the 20th century’s pioneers and the contemporary artists using new technologies in their work. The program rewards the different aspects of digital culture: music, graphic-design, audiovisuals and graphics, technological innovation, and new media arts.

Two international contests are held each year in order to promote, support and enhance the work of independent artists and labels. The first is dedicated to music and the second one to new media arts.

An annual event takes place in Paris. Besides the Awards Ceremony, Qwartz organizes an International New and Electronic Music Market, concerts, parties and conferences.

Qwartz Goals

Qwartz aims to promote and support new and electronic music scene. It gives the opportunity to (re)discover unknown and known artists and enhance the artistic creation and variety.

The designation of the prize-winners

Both Professional and Official Juries make their selections blindfold, that is to say without knowing the names of the artists or labels. The selection is based on artistic criteria only. After the Juries nominate several releases or tracks in the different categories, Internet users are invited to listen to the nominated works and then vote for the prize-winners.

The International New and Electronic Music Market

Qwartz organizes since few editions the International New and Electronic Music Market. The event gathers labels, artists, collectives, festivals, institutions, agencies, Hi-Fi firms during coming from 15 to 20 countries. It invites the visitors to discover the artistic creation and support by purchasing releases - rare- and limited-editions only. The Market gives the opportunity of professional networking as well. Performances, screenings, round-tables and talk-series are scheduled during the event.

The awards categories

Qwartz attributed by the Juries

• Qwartz Album
• Qwartz Experimentation/Research
• Qwartz Discovery
• Qwartz Compilation
• Qwartz Track
• Qwartz Dancefloor
• Qwartz Artwork and Packaging
• Qwartz New Media Arts
• Qwartz Artist
• Qwartz Label

Qwartz attributed by the Qwartz Direction/Honour Committee

• Qwartz d’Honneur
• Qwartz Pierre Schaeffer
• Qwartz Max Mathews (technological innovation)

Qwartz 7 (2011)

Under the chairmanship of Alva Noto

Alva Noto

Alva Noto is a stage name of sound artist Carsten Nicolai who uses art and music as complementary tools to create microscopic views of creative processes. Another alias he uses is Noto...

 and with Matali Crasset and Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr as Juries' Presidents

• Official Jury: Matali Crasset (President), Gilles Berquet, Mïrka Lugosi, Didier Varrod.
• Professional Jury: Alexis Alyskewicz & Aurore Menu, Yannick Blay, Frédéric Malki, Eric Mattson, Thomas Meinecke, Erik Minkkinen, Edouard Rostand, Christine Webster.
• New Media Arts Jury: Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr (President), Gilles Alvarez, Charles Carcopino, Régine Debatty, Benoît Guérinault, Anne Roquigny, Gerfried Stocker, Alain Thibaut.
  

Awards

• Qwartz Album - Doll Divider by Olivia Louvel
  Olivia Louvel
  Olivia Louvel is a French born, England based composer, producer and performer, crafting electronic songs from laptop and voice.-Early years:...
  
   [France] - Optical Sound [France]
• Qwartz Experimentation/Research - Antichamber by Yannis Kyriakides
  Yannis Kyriakides
  Yannis Kyriakides is a composer of contemporary classical music, and sound art. His music explores new forms and hybrids of media, synthesizing disparate sound sources and highlighting the sensorial space of music...
  
   [Cyprus] - Unsounds [Netherlands]
• Qwartz Discovery - Peste by Sturqen [Portugal] - Kvitnu [Ukraine]
• Qwartz Compialtion - A Man and A Machine 2 by Le Son du Maquis [France]
• Qwartz Track - Fine Mouche by Khan (feat. Brigitte Fontaine
  Brigitte Fontaine
  Brigitte Fontaine, born in 1939 in Morlaix in the Brittany region of France, is a singer of avant-garde music. During the course of her career she has employed numerous unusual musical styles, melding rock and roll, folk, jazz, electronica, spoken word poetry and world rhythms...
  
  ) [Germany] – I’m a single Records [Germany]
• Qwartz Dancefloor - The Beat of the Heart by Daniel Meteo [Germany] in Working Class – Shitkatapult
  Shitkatapult
  Shitkatapult is a German record label which focuses on electronic music, spanning both IDM and techno. The label was founded by Marco Haas and Marcus Stotz in 1998, and is now run by Haas and Apparat ....
  
   [Germany]
• Qwartz Artwork/Packaging - Loafnest (Andrew Lange + Michael S. Carlson) [United States] for Fever Dream by MAP
• Qwartz Artist - Sturqen [Portugal]
• Qwartz Label - Kvitnu [Ukraine]
• Qwartz New Media Arts - Dust by Herman Kolgen [Canada] / Special Mention to Deshérence by ANTIVJ [France]
• Qwartz d'Honneur - Matthew Herbert
  Matthew Herbert
  Matthew Herbert , also known as Herbert, Doctor Rockit, Radio Boy, Mr. Vertigo, Transformer, and Wishmountain, is a British electronic musician...
  
   [United Kingdom]
• Qwartz Pierre Schaeffer - Eliane Radigue
  Eliane Radigue
  Eliane Radigue is a French electronic music composer. She started her work in the 1950s and her first creations were presented in the late 1960s. Until 2000 her work was almost exclusively created on a single synthesizer, the ARP 2500 modular system and tape...
  
   [France]
• Qwartz Max Mathews - Harpe MIDI Camac [France]
• Qwartz Special - Christine Groult by KM Pantin [France]

Qwartz 6 (2010)

Under the chairmanship of Gudrun Gut

Gudrun Gut

Gudrun Gut is an electronic musical artist from Germany.She grew up on the Lüneburger Heide and moved to Berlin in 1975, where she studied visual arts at the Hochschule der Künste from 1978 to 1984. She was an early member of experimental act Einstürzende Neubauten and a founding member of Mania...

 and with Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...

 as Jury's President

• Official Jury: Christophe, Bernard Parmegiani, Patrice Renson
• Professional Jury: Jocelyne Auzende, Alain Brohard, David Chauveau, Marek Choloniewski, Jean-Marc Clogenson, Hubert Michel, Damien Moreno, Kevin Ringeval, Remco Schuurbiers

Awards

• Qwartz Album: Fedayi Pacha - From the Oriental School of dub [Hammerbass]
• Qwartz Experimentation/Research: Hughes Germain - Esprit de sel [Volume-Collectif / Césaré]
• Qwartz Discovery: Cercueil - Shoo Straight Shout [Optical Sound]
• Qwartz Compilation: Alec Empire
  Alec Empire
  Alec Empire is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, producer and DJ, he has released well over a hundred albums, EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk...
  
   Plays Staubgold: Rauschgold (Staubgold)
• Qwartz Anthology: Francisco Lopez - Through the Looking-Glass [Kairos]
• Qwartz Track: Fractional - Tansw extrait de Still Life [The Centrifuge]
• Qwartz Dancefloor: Daniela La Luz - Elle Routine extrait de Musik Non Stop Uno [Syncopated Musik]
• Qwartz Artwork/Packaging: Mounir Jatoum (La Commissure) - Split d’Arnaud Rivière & Antoine Chessex [Le Petit Mignon]
• Qwartz New Media Art: Kurt Hentschlager
• Qwartz Artist: Arnaud Rebotini
• Qwartz Label: Shitkatapult
  Shitkatapult
  Shitkatapult is a German record label which focuses on electronic music, spanning both IDM and techno. The label was founded by Marco Haas and Marcus Stotz in 1998, and is now run by Haas and Apparat ....
  
  
• Qwartz Max Mathews: Olivier Sens - logiciel Usine
• Qwartz Pierre Schaeffer: François Bayle
  François Bayle
  François Bayle is a composer of Musique concrète or acousmatic music.In the 1950s he studied with Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1960 he joined the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française, and in 1966 was put in charge of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales...
  
  
• Qwartz d’Honneur: Laurie Anderson
  Laurie Anderson
  Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s...
  
  

Qwartz 5 (2009)

Chairmanship: Taylor Deupree

Taylor Deupree

Taylor Deupree , is an American electronic musician, photographer and graphic designer. He is most known for the founding of the 12k record label, along with his work as a member of Prototype 909, and his collaborations with Savvas Ysatis and Christopher Willits...

QWARTZ ALBUM: krill.minima / urlaub auf balkonien / Thinner Netlabel

QWARTZ EXPERIMENTAL/RESEARCH: Lionel Marchetti / Hadèle et Hadrien : Le Livre des Vacances / Optical Sound

QWARTZ DISCOVER: Pirata / Minimental / The Arrogance of Simplicity / Pueblo Nuevo Netlabel

QWARTZ ARTWORK&PACKAGING: skoltz_kolgen for Silent Room / ARCADI / Optical Sound

QWARTZ VIDEO: skoltz_kolgen for Silent Room / ARCADI / Optical Sound

QWARTZ TRACK: Stefan Mallmann / Chicken and Wings in Interlude Ep / Night Drive Music

QWARTZ DANCE FLOOR: Apparat

Apparat (musician)

Apparat is a German electronic musician living in Berlin and was previously a co-owner of Shitkatapult records. Starting out with dance floor-oriented techno, he later started to create ambient music and more recently became "more interested in designing sounds than beats".In 2004, he appeared at...

/ apparat ibiza version in Things to be frickled / Shitkatapult

Shitkatapult

Shitkatapult is a German record label which focuses on electronic music, spanning both IDM and techno. The label was founded by Marco Haas and Marcus Stotz in 1998, and is now run by Haas and Apparat ....

 

QWARTZ COMPILATION: Autumn Leaves / Gruenrekorder

QWARTZ ARTIST: Lionel Marchetti

QWARTZ LABEL: Kompakt

Kompakt

Kompakt is a Cologne-based electronic music record label and vinyl/CD distributor, owned by Wolfgang Voigt, Michael Mayer and Jürgen Paape. They specialize in microhouse and minimal techno, and are known for their Total compilation series which reached its eleventh installment in 2010.Kompakt...

 

QWARTZ D'HONNEUR : Wolfgang Voigt

Wolfgang Voigt

Wolfgang Voigt is an electronic music artist from Cologne, Germany, known for his output under various aliases on a plethora of record labels, including Warp, Harvest, Raster-Noton and Force Inc...

QWARTZ D'HONNEUR FOR INNOVATION: Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence "Larry" Lessig is an American academic and political activist. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications, and he has called for state-based activism to promote substantive...

QWARTZ PIERRE SCHAEFFER: Åke Parmerud

Åke Parmerud

Åke Parmerud is a Swedish composer, musician, and multimedia artist noted for his acoustic and electronic works, which have been performed mostly in Europe, Mexico, and Canada. He is also noted for the design of stage and acoustics as well as interactive media and software...

, Roger Cochini

QWARTZ MAX MATHEWS: Bert Schiettecatte / AudioCubes Percussa

Audiocubes

The AudioCubes are a collection of wireless intelligent light emitting objects, capable of detecting each other's location and orientation, and user gestures, and were created by Bert Schiettecatte...

  (Belgium)

QWARTZ WEB: Kenneth Goldsmith

Kenneth Goldsmith

Kenneth Goldsmith is an American poet. He is the founding editor of UbuWeb, teaches Poetics and Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania and is Senior Editor of PennSound. He hosted a weekly radio show at WFMU from 1995 until June 2010...

 for UbuWeb

UbuWeb

UbuWeb is a large web-based educational resource for avant-garde material available on the internet, founded in 1996 by poet Kenneth Goldsmith. It offers visual, concrete and sound poetry, expanding to include film and sound art mp3 archives.-Philosophy:...

 

QWARTZ PRESS: Tony Herrington for the magazine The Wire

The Wire (magazine)

The Wire is a British avant garde music magazine, founded in 1982 by jazz promoter Anthony Wood and journalist Chrissie Murray. The magazine initially concentrated on contemporary jazz and improvised music, but branched out in the early 1990s to various types of experimental music...

 

QWARTZ DIGITAL ARTS: Maurice Benayoun

Maurice Benayoun

Maurice Benayoun is a French pioneer new-media artist and theorist based in Paris. His work employs various media, including video, immersive virtual reality, the Web, wireless technology, performance, large-scale urban art installations and interactive exhibitions.-Biography:Born in Mascara,...

EDITION 4 2008

Présidence d'Honneur: Robin Rimbaud

Robin Rimbaud

Robin Rimbaud is an electronic musician who works under the name Scanner due to his use of cell phone and police scanners in live performance...

 aka Scanner

QWARTZ ALBUM: Edith Progue / Timeline / Mille Plateaux

Mille Plateaux

Mille Plateaux is an influential electronica record label founded 1993 by Achim Szepanski in Frankfurt, Germany. It is known for mostly releasing minimal techno, glitch music and other experimental electronic music.-History:...

QWARTZ EXPERIMENTAL/RESEARCH: Laurent Chambert / Suspense

QWARTZ DISCOVER: The Penelope(s) / The Arrogance of Simplicity / Citizen Records
QWARTZ ARTIST: LR & RadioMentale

QWARTZ ARTWORK & PACKAGING: Jon Wozencroft

Jon Wozencroft

Jon Wozencroft is a graphic designer, author and instructor.Wozencroft founded Touch, an independent multimedia publishing company...

, for “l’album 4 Rooms”/Jacob Kirkegaard

Jacob Kirkegaard

Jacob Kirkegaard is a sound artist born in 1975 in Denmark, living in Berlin, Germany. In early 2006 he graduated at the Academy of Arts and the Media in Cologne, Germany. Jacob is exploring sound in art with a scientific approach...

 /Touch

Touch Music

Touch is a British audio-visual organisation, operating the Touch label. It is the main arm of the London-based multimedia publishing company Touch, established in 1982...

QWARTZ TRACK: Long tongue / Micro Audio Waves

Micro audio waves

Micro Audio Waves are a Portuguese band. Micro Audio Waves, originally a duoformed by Flak and C. Morgado , they formed in 2000, and began by developing compositions with a minimal and experimental electronica style, the results of which can be heard in their first album Micro Audio Waves .With...

 in odd size baggage / Magic Music

QWARTZ DANCE FLOOR: Cocotte / Teenage Bad Girl in Cocotte / Citizen Records

QWARTZ COMPILATION: 50 AÑOS (1956–2006) de Musica Electroacustica en Chile
Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes / Pueblo Nuevo / 3 CDs /press1 /press2

QWARTZ LABEL: Citizen Records (France)

QWARTZ HYBRID: Naphtaline, Ez3kiel, Jarring Effects

Jarring effects

Jarring Effects is a French musical label based in Lyon, south-east of France. Jarring Effects encourages musicians to be independent, produce the music themselves, be creative and to make music they enjoy rather than trying to make it commercially viable...

QWARTZ EVENT: Les Nuits Electroniques de L’Ososphère (Strasbourg, France)

QWARTZ D'HONNEUR : Blixa Bargeld

Blixa Bargeld

Blixa Bargeld is a composer, author, actor, singer, musician, performer and lecturer in a number of artistic fields...

QWARTZ PIERRE SCHAEFFER: Jean-Claude Risset

Jean-Claude Risset

Jean-Claude Risset is a French composer, best known for his pioneering contributions to computer music. He is a former student of André Jolivet and former co-worker of Max Mathews at Bell Labs....

, Beatriz Ferreyra, Max Mathews

Max Mathews

Max Vernon Mathews was a pioneer in the world of computer music.-Biography:...

EDITION 3 2007

QWARTZ TRACK: The Ukrainians

The Ukrainians

The Ukrainians are a British band, which plays traditional Ukrainian music, heavily influenced by western post-punk.-Career:The Ukrainians were formed in 1990 by Wedding Present guitarist Peter Solowka, with singer/violinist Len Liggins and mandolin player Roman Remeynes, after all three had played...

 / Bryce Kushnier / Intr-version (Canada)

QWARTZ ALBUM : Dovetail / Coloma / Klein Records (Great Britain)

QWARTZ DISCOVER: The correct use of pets / Hypo & Edh / Active Suspension (France)

QWARTZ DANCE-FLOOR : Ripple effect / 20for7 / Chocoflash (Australia)

QWARTZ EXPERIMENTAL/RESEARCH : Shaper of form / Dani Joss / Poeta Negra (Greece)

QWARTZ COMPILATION : Bip_Hop generation vol.8 / Bip-hop (France)

QWARTZ CLIP : Under the bridge / Baiyon / Brain Escape Sandwich / Rec-Catchpulse (Japan) and SchnittMenge / Spenza / Stephan Bolch (Germany)

QWARTZ ARTWORK & PACKAGING : Olivier Weber for Zombiparti ! de Kid Chocolat - Poor Records (Switzerland)

QWARTZ ARTIST : Coloma

QWARTZ LABEL : Staubgold (Germany)

QWARTZ HYBRID : Rodolphe Von Gombergh. RVG (France)

QWARTZ EVENT : Synch (Greece) and Nuits sonores (Lyon, France)

QWARTZ MAX MATHEWS : FM3 Buddha Machine (China/USA)

QWARTZ ROBERT MOOG : Haliaetus (France)

QWARTZ D'HONNEUR : Björk

Björk

Björk Guðmundsdóttir , known as Björk , is an Icelandic singer-songwriter. Her eclectic musical style has achieved popular acknowledgement and popularity within many musical genres, such as rock, jazz, electronic dance music, classical and folk...

QWARTZ PIERRE SCHAEFFER : Henri Pousseur

Henri Pousseur

Henri Pousseur was a Belgian composer.-Biography:Pousseur studied at the Academies of Music in Liège and in Brussels from 1947 to 1953. He was closely associated with Pierre Froidebise and André Souris...

 (Belgium) and Otavio Soares Brandão(Brazil)

EDITION 2 2006

QWARTZ TRACK: Sofa / Motel *** / Dazzle and Delight (France)

QWARTZ ALBUM : No Waves / Micro Audio Waves

Micro audio waves

Micro Audio Waves are a Portuguese band. Micro Audio Waves, originally a duoformed by Flak and C. Morgado , they formed in 2000, and began by developing compositions with a minimal and experimental electronica style, the results of which can be heard in their first album Micro Audio Waves .With...

 / N Records (Portugal)

QWARTZ DISCOVER : Scatter Scards / Andrey Kiritchenko / Minusn Netlabel (Ukraine) and 2 / Leonard de Leonard / Leonizer Records (France)

QWARTZ DANCE-FLOOR : No fun (OK Cowboy) / Vitalic

Vitalic

Vitalic is an electronic music artist. He was born in France and is of Spanish and Italian descent.-History:His first singles were released in 1996 and 1997, but were confined to the underground electronic music scene...

 / Citizen Records (France)

QWARTZ EXPERIMENTAL/RESEARCH : Zap Meemees / Satanicpornocultshop

Satanicpornocultshop

Satanicpornocultshop is a Japanese experimental music group known for assemblage-style compositions that incorporate a variety of musical styles and techniques...

 / Sonore (Japan)

QWARTZ COMPILATION : Fax collaborations & remixes / Static Discos (Mexico)

QWARTZ CLIP : Fully Connected / Marco Madruga & Daniela Krts

QWARTZ ARTWORK & PACKAGING : Nicola Bork for "Mimetic Dancing" de Mimetic – Hands (Germany)

QWARTZ PROMISING ARTIST : Murcof (Mexico)

QWARTZ LABEL : Tomlab (Germany)

QWARTZ LIVE ACT : Felix Kubin

Felix Kubin

Felix Kubin is an electronic musician. He has been involved with music since he was 8 years old, when he studied piano, organ and glockenspiel. His youthful experiments really took off in 1980 when he got a Korg MS-20 synthesizer. His early works have been released under the title The Tetchy...

 (Germany)

QWARTZ DJ PRODUCER : Helius Zhamiq

QWARTZ HYBRID : Mladafronta DVD – Parametric (France)

QWARTZ ARRANGEMENT & COMPOSITION : Vitalic (France)

QWARTZ VINYL : "Vista le Vie" de A futuristic family film – F Communications

F Communications

F Communications, also known as FCom, is a French record label based in Paris. It was founded in 1994 by Eric Morand and Laurent Garnier. It produces dance and electronic music like Avril, Laurent Garnier, and Mr. Oizo amongst many others...

 (France)

QWARTZ EVENT : Dis-patch Beograd

QWARTZ D'HONNEUR : Pierre Henry

Pierre Henry

Pierre Henry is a French composer, considered a pioneer of the musique concrète genre of electronic music.-Biography:...

 (France), Klaus Schulze

Klaus Schulze

Klaus Schulze is a German electronic music composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried. He was briefly a member of the electronic bands Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel before launching a solo career consisting of more than 60 albums released across five decades.-1970s:In...

 (Germany), Can

Can (band)

Can was an experimental rock band formed in Cologne, West Germany in 1968. Later labeled as one of the first "krautrock" groups, they transcended mainstream influences and incorporated strong minimalist and world music elements into their often psychedelic music.Can constructed their music largely...

 (Germany)

QWARTZ PIERRE SCHAEFFER : Bernard Parmegiani

Bernard Parmegiani

Bernard Parmegiani is a composer best known for his electronic or acousmatic music.-Biography:Between 1957 and 1961 he studied mime with Jacques Lecoq, a period he later regarded as important to his work as a composer...

EDITION 1 2005

QWARTZ d'HONNEUR : Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician of the 20th century. His innovative work in both the sciences —particularly communications and acoustics— and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end...

QWARTZ ALBUM : Welcome Tourist / B.Fleischmann / Morr Music

Morr Music

Morr Music is an independent record label based in Berlin, Germany, founded in 1999 by Thomas Morr. Most artists on the label fall into the categories of intelligent dance music, electronica and dreampop, but all reflect Thomas Morr's personal taste...

 (Germany-Austria)

QWARTZ DISCOVER : The Exchange / Alix / Les Disques Sérieux/Nocturne (France)

QWARTZ TRACK : Escal in The Exchange / Alix / Les Disques Sérieux/Nocturne (France)

QWARTZ VINYL : A heart & two stars / Music A.M / Quatermass (Germany-Belgium)

QWARTZ COMPILATION : Maximas Texturas / Discos Konfort (Mexico)

QWARTZ REMIXE & REPRISE : High again in Tribute To Remixes / Brain Damage

Brain Damage Sound System

Brain Damage is a French dub band from Saint-Étienne.The band is made up by Martin, sound engineering, and Raphael, bass.Created in the year 1999 by two members of the dub collective and label Bangarang, Brain Damage play a very personal and particular dub music: dark, like their home city, and...

 / Dub Wiser - Hammerbass (France)

QWARTZ CLIP : Hey Bonus ! - Octet / Camille Henrot / Diamond Traxx/Metronomic (France)

QWARTZ ARTWORK & PACKAGING : January / Taylor Deupree / Photographe & Uison Design / Spekk (Japan)

QWARTZ COMPOSER/ARRANGEMENT : Uwe Schmidt

Uwe Schmidt

Uwe Schmidt , is a German composer, musician and producer of electronic music. He is often regarded as the father of electrolatino, electrogospel and acitón music.- Career :...

 (Germany)

QWARTZ LIVE : Dzihan and Kamien - Crouch Records (Yugoslavia-Switzerland)

QWARTZ LABEL : Poeta Negra (Greece)

QWARTZ ARTIST : Coloma - Ware Records (Germany/England)

QWARTZ DJ PRODUCER : Automat - Sounds Around Records (France)

QWARTZ AUTOPRODUCTION : Des hauts & des bas / Lou / Ici (Londres-France)

QWARTZ HYBRID: Cocoon, Optical Sound (France)

QWARTZ MAX MATHEWS : TUB X, Rémi Dury (France)

QWARTZ ROBERT MOOG : Live

Ableton Live

Ableton Live is a loop-based software music sequencer and DAW for Mac OS and Windows by Ableton. The latest major release of Live, Version 8, was released in April 2009. In contrast to many other software sequencers, Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for...

 [software], Ableton

QWARTZ EVENT : Festival MUTEK

Mutek

Founded in 2000, MUTEK is an international festival organization dedicated to the promotion of electronic music and the digital arts. Its central platform is an annual five-day event in Montreal that takes place in late May and early June...

, Québec, Canada

External links

• Qwartz Electronic Music Awards official website