Reinier Rietveld,
Initially educated as drummer and computer programmer, Rotterdam-based and born sound
artist Reinier Rietveld has worked with sound and music since the early 80s, working with
both live and studio based music, as well as with television sound. He first refined his musical
skills with bands like Spasmodique, a hardcore cult-outfit which he framed with tight
syncopated drum work Rietveld has tested his live mixing skills at the television studios of
world famous production company Ende-Mol and subsequently became heavily engaged in
the live music circuit, from local venues to intercontinental tours. Throughout this period,
he developed his own sound studio, studio2x2, for (re)mixing, mastering and producing
soundscapes for movies and art projects.
Both in the studio and live, he has worked with the cream of avant garde and pop musicians,
including Mecano, Defunkt, Brett Anderson and many others.
In 1999, a new challenge presented itself through an engagement with the Soundworks series.
The result of a collaboration with art photographer Craigie Horsfield, site-specific soundscapes
are produced to fill exhibition spaces of which monumental photographic images. At first,
this collaboration included Ruitger Wolfson, Camille Dings and Spasmodique’s singer
Mark Ritsema, culminating in Soundwork 4.0, an extensive sound art project at in de
Vleeshal in Middelburg, Netherlands and Relation Soundwork in New York Since 2002,
Rietveld has been Horsfield’s main sonic collaborator, leading in 2007 to the memorable
Relation exhibition at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, followed in 2010-11 by
Soundwork 6.1 at MKAH in Antwerp, Belgium.
Flexible to context yet exactingly precise in his approach, developed as second nature
through decades of live and studio mixing, Reinier Rietveld instinctively creates
idiosyncratic, yet hauntingly beautiful, site-specific sonic dream work.
As such, he has been invited to fill the Turbine Hall on Cockatoo Island for
the 2012 Sydney Biennale.
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