Austin, TX · available for production work

Nicolas Sosa.

I'm a sound designer, composer and live sound engineer in Austin. I write and build sound for theatre, dance and games, and I've mixed 50+ bands at SXSW showcases and events around town.

Sound Design & Music Live Sound Podcast & Post

01 · Theatre, dance & games

Sound Design & Music

Scores, cues and sound effects for performance and picture.

Composer & Sound Designer · Original score

Least of You

Dance piece · Iden B. Payne Theatre, Austin

An original score for a dance piece about love: the passion, the faithfulness and the lying. It draws on a conversation between James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni about how loving someone can mean protecting them from reality, choosing the comforting falsehood over the painful one.

The music moves from stillness into full release and back, built as much from sound design as from melody. I wrote it from the choreographer's requests and coordinated the cues with the lighting designers.

Watch on YouTube ↗

It ends in a dissolve, not a resolution, because that feeling never really resolves. It just quiets.Composer's note

Composer & Sound Designer

Putrworm

Team video game

I composed the music and designed the sound effects for the game in Ableton, then implemented the audio in Wwise.

Ableton Live
Wwise

Play the game ↗ Trailer on YouTube ↗

Sound Designer

Hollow Knight sound redesign

Personal project · redesign to picture

A full sound redesign of a gameplay clip from Hollow Knight, with every effect rebuilt to picture.

Watch on YouTube ↗

02 · Shows & events

Live Sound

FOH, monitors, patching and setup to strike, usually as the only engineer and on my own gear.

50+bands mixed at SXSW and around Austin

3SXSW seasons with Happen Twice

Live Audio Engineer

Happen Twice at SXSW

SXSW showcases · 3 years running

I set up and ran the SXSW lineups for Happen Twice, an independent record label and production company in Austin, on my own equipment. 40+ bands with them so far, including 60 Juno, Cardinal Bloom, Bershy and John Roseboro.

Live Audio Engineer · Mix & Master

Meet Me Here

Docu-style performance series · Austin

A series where musicians, tattoo artists, poets and other unconventional artists share their process from one room. I recorded a jazz fusion band inside a house in front of a ticketed audience, ran the show on my own mixer, tracked everything into Ableton, then mixed and mastered it for YouTube.

Behringer X Air XR16
Ableton Live
Multitrack

Watch on YouTube ↗

32channel multitracks from the Midas M32

2024to present at LAITS

Assistant Audio Engineer

LAITS, UT Austin

Conferences · lectures · livestreams · special events

I run live sound for conferences, lectures and campus events: FOH mix, stage patching, monitor sends and full PA setup and strike. I also run broadcast audio for livestreamed classes with wireless mic systems over Dante, and keep signal-flow docs and run sheets for every event.

Midas M32
A&H GLD-80
Dante
Wireless systems

03 · Podcast & post-production

Post

Dialogue editing, cleanup, mixing and mastering, delivered at streaming loudness.

RX 11noise reduction and repair

Pro Toolsedit and mix

Post-Production Engineer · LAITS

15 Minute History and Liberal Arts media

Podcasts and video · College of Liberal Arts, UT Austin

I edit, clean and mix podcasts and videos for the College of Liberal Arts, including the 15 Minute History podcast, and deliver loudness-normalized masters for streaming platforms.

Listen to an episode ↗

Experience

Résumé

Sound Designer & Composer

Theatre, dance, games and picture

Least of You: original score, Iden B. Payne Theatre
Putrworm: music, sound effects and Wwise implementation
Hollow Knight sound redesign to picture

Assistant Audio Engineer

LAITS, UT Austin · 2024–present

Live sound for conferences, lectures and events: FOH, patching, monitors, PA setup and strike
Livestream audio with wireless systems over Dante
Podcast and video post in Pro Tools and RX 11, delivered loudness-normalized
32-channel multitrack recording from a Midas M32 into Ableton

Freelance Live Sound Engineer

Austin, TX · 2023–present

50+ bands at SXSW and events around Austin
Happen Twice SXSW showcases, three years, 40+ bands
Meet Me Here live sound, recording, mix and master
Sole operator on my own rig: FOH, monitors, patching, logistics

Education

The University of Texas at Austin
B.S., Arts & Entertainment Technologies
Certificate in Programming and Computation
Class of 2026 · GPA 3.7

Coursework

Sound Design
Digital Musicianship
Video Game Audio
Sound and Space
Audio Processing
Virtual Instruments
DIY Synthesizers

Tools

Midas M32
A&H GLD-80 / QU-16
Behringer XR16
Dante
Pro Tools
Ableton Live
Logic Pro
iZotope RX 11
FabFilter
Wwise
FMOD
Unity
Unreal

Languages

Spanish (fluent) · Portuguese (conversational)

Let's work on your next show.

nicolightyear@gmail.com