Andrew Cherry — Video Artist & Sound Designer

Education

Advanced Diploma of Music Industry (Sound Production)

RMIT University, Melbourne

Commissioned Audio Work

State Library Victoria — Melbourne, Australia

Selected Professional Work

Sound Designer / Mix Engineer

In The Room Where He Waits — TDM Film, Melbourne · Dec 2022 – Feb 2024

Sound design, audio repair, ADR matching, foley recording, extreme noise floor reduction and cinema mix.

Sound Designer / Audio Engineer

Untitled Memoriam — Chris Luscri, Melbourne · Sept 2021 – Present

Digitising and restoring archival analogue cassette and ¼ inch tape, recording impulse responses and 360 soundscapes on location, final 5.1 surround mix.

Sound Designer / Audio Engineer

Caretakers — Immersive Art Installation, Chris Luscri, Melbourne · June 2021 – Present

Original score for long-form gallery installation. Field recording, experimental techniques including magnetic wave recording, tape speed modulation and reamping. Spatial audio server mix for gallery exhibition.

Sound Designer / Audio Engineer

Cauliflower — Short Film, Aratheia Pictures, Melbourne · Oct 2020 – Feb 2021

Premiered at Prague Independent Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2021. Voiceover recording, dialogue editing, foley, original soundtrack composition, mastering for digital delivery.

Composer / Mix Engineer

Free in Cage — Performance Art, Hill Scene Live Festival, Burrinja Arts Centre · Sept – Oct 2020

Long-form soundscape composition for live and online performance art. Watch on YouTube

Composer / Mix Engineer

Gut Feelings — Generative Soundscape, Melbourne Museum · July 2018 – Aug 2020

Composed, recorded, mixed and deployed 9-channel generative soundscape for temporary gallery. Watch on YouTube

Technical Experience

Technical Coordinator — Rising Melbourne

Apr – Jul 2022

Purchasing, assembly and maintenance of all equipment
Multimedia infrastructure design and install
Lighting infrastructure design and install utilising DMX, ArtNet and sACN
Control and scheduling systems operation and development
Editing of multimedia content

Senior Technician — Museums Victoria

Jul 2018 – Apr 2021

Multimedia and lighting infrastructure design and installation
Control and scheduling systems operation and development
Operational oversight across three venues (Exhibition Spaces, Planetarium, Digital Signage, Meeting Rooms, Education Spaces)
Task allocation, rostering and coordination of full-time and casual technicians
24-hour on-call technical support

Lead Technician — Museums Victoria

Pauline Gandel Children’s Gallery, Ground Up & Beyond Perception · Jul 2015 – Jul 2018

Project and budget management of multi-award-winning galleries (AMaGA 2017 MAGNA Winner)
Interactive exhibit conceptual design and prototyping
Hardware and software development (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Kinect, openFrameworks)
Dante network audio for 60+ channel generative audio system
PCB design and population with KiCAD