Hannes Kretzer

Hannes Kretzer is a German composer, producer and sound artist whose music is shaped by resonance, distortion and the emotional weight of physical sound. His work is built from dense layers of texture: analog synthesizers, distorted guitars, organs, processed recordings and the Cristal Baschet, an acoustic glass-and-metal instrument that has become a central element of his live performances. These sounds move between intimacy, weight and decay. Rather than treating atmosphere as something distant or decorative, Kretzer approaches it as something bodily and emotional. Beyond his solo work, Kretzer has composed music for award-winning nature documentaries, while his existing catalogue has been licensed for film, television and game projects connected to Netflix, HBO, Paramount and others.