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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

2002 he started working with real time-animation and improvisation of video & audio

Participation at Video Art Festivals:
- His video work - zylinder – has been chosen for the OPTICA: International Encounters of Photography and Experimental Cinema 2006 in Gijón - Spain 11-13 November
- dancing chair - for the One Minute Film & Video Festival Aarau - Switzerland 18-20 August 2006
- tünnel - Simultan Festival May 2006 Timisoara - Romania - bodyparts - ran at the videofest of the Metu Cinema Society Ankara - Turkey 2-4 March 2006
- a monks' phone - festival of the Proyecto Cultural BigBang Montevideo - Uruguay 15 December 2005
- 23 seconds - One Minute Film & Video Festival Aarau - Switzerland 19-21 August 2005
- spool - OPTICA: International Encounters of Photography and Experimental Cinema 2005 Gijón - Spain 1-3 July
- 23 seconds - Simultan Festival May 2005 Timisoara - Romania

Exhibitions / Galleries:
Gallery Rebhüüsli Kreuzlingen - Switzerland 18.01.- 09.02.2008
Installation Hotel Palmland
- Gallery Rebhüüsli Kreuzlingen - Switzerland 13 February 2007 Feature Night - Siberian Project Space London - Great Britain Dezember 2006
- Lux 2006 Seville - Spain 16-31 May 2006 Festival Internacional de Videojockeys y Videoartistas exposition at the Sala de Exposiciones Santa Ines

Publications:
- tinah#4 CD Rom 2004, - tinah#5 CD Rom 2005, - tinah#6 CD Rom 2005, - tinah#8 CD Rom 2007 CD Rom magazines of the artist group TINAH Berlin - Germany
- Simultan Video / Sound Experiment DVD 2005 and 2006 Timisoara - Romania

Video & Sound Live Performances:
- Art night Schorndorf 23.September 2006
- Lux 2006 Seville - Spain 16-31 May 2006 Festival Internacional de Videojockeys y Videoartistas performance at the Sala de Exposiciones Santa Ines
- Club Tearoom Stuttgart 2004 / 2005
- Expo Winterbach 2004
- Technikmuseum der Stadt Schorndorf 2004
- Toccata Aeterna Sankt Michael Kirche Schwäbisch Hall 2003