Rettnoise - Harald Rettich is a Noise & Visuals artist from Schorndorf / South Germany.
Video works for - festivals - installations - CD/DVD Roms
Live solo performances - realtime improvisation with sound and picture data
He uses exclusively his own audio & video data, consisting out of digitally generated and field recorded sources.
Retts attention and energy are directed towards innovative projects, which in the first line are designated by the improvisational approach to the interaction of visuals and sound.
Vita:
Born 1965 Schwäbisch Gmünd / Germany
German Abitur 1984, civil service
1987-93 composition and music theories studies with Siegfried Eipper and Helmut Lachenmann at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart.
Performance of his compositions at the Filmfestival Esslingen, Jazzfestival Nürtingen, ...
1994-95 contact studies at the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg.
Since then freelance artist
Price holder of the - Animago 1999 - with GUD Process
2003 he started working with real time-animation and improvisation of video & audio data
Participation at Video Art Festivals:
- newmediafest - Köln 2010
- GIGUK - Gießener Festival for Video Art 2009/2010
- Crosstalk Video Art Festival - Budapest - Ungarn 2009
- CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival 2009/2010
- 100 Seconds Film Festival Lowell - Massachusetts - USA 2007/2009
- Simultan Festival 2005/2006/2007/2009/2010 - Timisoara - Romania
- OPTICA: International Encounters of Photography and Experimental Cinema -2005/2006/2007 - Gijón - Spain
- One Minute Film & Video Festival - Aarau - Switzerland 2005/2006/2007/2008/2009
- Videofest of the Metu Cinema Society - Ankara - Turkey 2005
- Festival of the Proyecto Cultural BigBang - Montevideo - Uruguay 2005
Exhibitions / Galleries:
- Filmcontainer Ehrenkirchen - 2010
- Kunstverein Schorndorf - Rue des Arts 2009
- Gallery Rebhüüsli Kreuzlingen - Switzerland 2007/ 2008 / 2009
- Kunstverein Friedrichshafen 2007
- Siberian Project Space London - Great Britain 2006
- Lux 2006 Seville - Spain 2006 Festival Internacional de Videojockeys y Videoartistas
- exposition at the Sala de Exposiciones Santa Ines
Publications:
- Documentation - Rue des Arts – Kunstverein Schorndorf 2009
- rettnoise noise + visuals dvd 2007
- CD Rom magazines 4/5/6/8 of the artist group TINAH Berlin - Germany
- Simultan Video / Sound Experiment DVD 2005 / 2006 / 2007 Timisoara - Romania
Video & Sound Live Performances:
Festival Experimentelle Musik - Munich 2010 / Blackbox Gasteig - Munich / franzK - Reutlingen 2010 / TonArt Festival 2010 - Esslingen / Domagkateliers Munich 2010 / Rote Sonne Munich 2010 / Art night Konstanz - Kreuzlingen 2009 / Stadt im Fluss - Esslingen 2009 / Transmediale 08 Berlin 2008 / TonArt Festival Esslingen 2008-2010 / WIM - workshop for improvised music - Zurich - Switzerland 2007 / Art night Schwäbisch Hall 2007 / Art night Schorndorf 2007 / One Minute Film & Video Festival - Aarau - Switzerland 2007 / Theater Steckborn - Switzerland 2007 / Cinema - Lindau 2007 / Art night Schorndorf 2006 / Lux 2006 Seville - Spain 2006 Festival Internacional de Videojockeys y Videoartistas / Club Tearoom Stuttgart 2004-2005 / Expo Winterbach 2004 / Technikmuseum der Stadt Schorndorf 2004 / Toccata Aeterna Sankt Michael Church Schwäbisch Hall 2003