Biography
Kerry Kelekovich is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Cinema And Television Arts teaching Music For Cinema, Post-Production Audio, and many other below-the-line audio courses.
As a veteran of both the music and film industries, Kerry served as Columbia's recording engineer and film mixer, co-managing the Sound Studio in the formerly branded Film & Video Department, while maintaining a dual-career as a performing multi-instrumentalist and composer.
Working as an audio specialist, Kerry's experience includes mixing duties at many of Chicago's legendary music venues as well as North American concert halls from Montreal to Los Angeles. With a background extending to singer-songwriters, bands, and filmmakers, he currently runs Kouderay.com - a music design house and publishing archive, while sporadically producing the works of emerging creatives.
Kerry attended Northern Illinois University to study acoustics with world-renowned, acoustics-researcher, Dr. Thomas Rossing and enrolled at Columbia College Chicago to study Sound Composition with Howard Sandroff and Audio Engineering with the celebrated, Chess Records recording engineer, Malcolm Chisholm, which launched a career in sound and built a resume spanning a broad range of artists and clients in music, television, and cinema.
Instructional Areas
Music Publishing & Supervision, Sound Design, Audio Mixing & Editing, ADR & Foley Recording, Voice-over Production
Creative Practice and Research Interests
Copyright and Fair Use, Streaming Technologies, Graphic Design and Photography
Degrees