Qwartz is an organization that promotes and supports independent musical creation by managing a worldwide network of 3,000 labels and 10,000 artists, organizing of an international competition and producing an incomparable annual event.
Qwartz creates and enhances the links between the 20th century's pioneers and the contemporary artists using new technologies in their work. The Qwartz program rewards all aspects of contemporary artistic creation: music, audiovisuals and graphics, technological innovation, and new media art. It brings together the different waves of new and electronic music, from the most demanding to the most festive, from electro-acoustic to techno.