Sound Designer
I’ve been sound designing since 2011, drawing on experience as a pit musician, arranger, composer, interactive programmer and music director/band leader. Expert computer and data networking skills facilitate advanced system integration between lighting, projection, sound and physical hardware devices/triggers, for example:
audio reactive lighting systems; on-the-fly live recording where the recordings are using in the production; triggering to and from remote wired/wireless hardware; complex integration of interactive hardware (art installations); elaborate underscoring with controllable “vamps”; network analysis and troubleshooting for complex cueing between lights, sound, projection and Smart Caption Glasses.
Software: Qlab versions 2 to 5; Dante (level 3 certified); Max/MSP; DAWs: Reaper, Luna, Ableton Live; Network integration with ETC EOS; TouchOSC; Yamaha LS/QL/CL/DM; OBS; NDI; Syphon; Arduino & Raspberry Pi programming
Andrew Nelson Sound Design and Adjacent Experience
| Lehigh University | Highlights from 18 productions: Wolf Play, Trouble in Mind, Proof, This Is Not The Play, Brown Face, The Salonnieres, I and You, Smart People, Clybourne Park, Stupid F*%#ing Bird, God of Carnage This Emancipation Project (built system to incorporate live show recordings to subsequent shows) | 2014-present | |
| Hippodrome Casino, London | Magic Gramophone (designer/programmer) – Archive & Myth Bar | 2024 | |
| Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium | All That Fall – Philadelphia Fringe Festival | 2023 | |
| People’s Light Theatre Company | Smart Caption Glasses Programmer/Trainer | 2023-Present | |
| Wilma Theatre | Minor Character (audio reactive lighting system) | 2021 | |
| Michael Kiley | Close Music for Bodies (audio reactive lighting system) | 2017 | |
| Martha Graham Cracker | Pandemic quarantine video designer, engineer & arranger | 2020 | |
| Azuka Theatre | The Arsonists (World Premiere, Barrymore nominated), Dutch Masters, Nerve (composer) | 2010-2017 | |
| Byron Karabatsos | Post production audio for award winning film: A Drag Queen for Kids | 2015 | |
| George Urgo | Live from Juniper Commons – Record, mix, bass | 2015 | |
| Mazeppa Productions | Xanadu, Closer Than Ever (sound design and bass), Sweet Charity | 2014-2016 | |
| PIFA | Time Tunnel (Interactive designer/programmer) | 2013 | |
| White Box Theatre | The Weavers – The Barnes Foundation | 2012 | |
| American Philosophical Society | The Astronomer Collapses | 2012 | |
| Pig Iron Theatre Company | Balladina, One Day I’ll Be French (composer/performer) | 2009-2011 | |
| Brat Productions | MEANWHILE | 2011 | |
| Shakespeare in Clark Park | Composer: Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Comedy of Errors, As You Like It | 2008-2012 | |