QUEEN OF KATWE
Music mixer on Disney's Kampala-set feature, one of the first times Ugandan sound reached a studio release this size.
MUSIC MIXERUGANDA · EST 2004 · SOUND FOR SCREEN & STAGE
AHUURRA ANDREW
Composer · Sound designer · Re-recording mixer · FOH & systems engineer. Twenty years in African cinema sound and live production.
0Years in sound
0Screen credits
0Film & TV scores
0Award wins & nominations
0Soundtrack releases
0Countries of direct work
Twenty years in, the work still comes down to one idea: African stories deserve to sound as good as they look, on screen and in the room. That thread runs from scoring festival shorts in Kampala to mixing Burna Boy's 3 Cold Dishes, and from a jazz stage in Kampala to an isolated broadcast feed handed to an OB van. It is why I was named one of the top 10 composers out of Africa for the Red Sea Festival Labs. Quad-A now runs the first certified Dolby Atmos facility in East Africa and holds the Dolby training partnership for the region, so work that once had to leave the continent to be finished gets finished here. Credits with Disney and Prime Video open doors most engineers on this continent never get offered. I use them to put African sound in rooms it hasn't been in before, and to prove the stories don't need to change for the rest of the world to hear them.
01
FILM
FILM
SCORING
33 scores for film, TV and documentary so far, from small festival shorts to Burna Boy's pan-African feature, 3 Cold Dishes.
02
SOUND DESIGN
SOUND DESIGN
& POST
Supervising sound editing, Foley, ADR and Dolby® immersive re-recording mixes, handled the same way whether the budget is festival-size or studio-size.
03
LIVE SOUND
LIVE SOUND
& SYSTEMS
Front-of-house and systems engineering since 2008, from jazz rooms to open ground: coverage and delay design, RF coordination, Dante networks, and an isolated broadcast feed handed to the OB van.
04
EDUCATION &
EDUCATION &
MENTORSHIP
Masterclasses at Durban FilmMart, workshops across East Africa, and the Quad-A Academy, where I teach the craft to people who didn't grow up with access to it.
05
SOFTWARE
SOFTWARE
& AI
Custom software and AI systems for companies, built on an Information Technology degree and years of shipping the tools that run my own businesses: web platforms, internal dashboards, and AI assistants that answer from a company's own data.
SOUND BEYOND
THE SCREEN
Film and TV are one part of what I do. Another is making physical spaces sound right: acoustic consultation on building and construction projects, AV installations, and acoustic solutions for industries most audio people never touch, including medical ENT audiology booths. A large part of that work is with churches: front-of-house, monitor and broadcast management for Houses of Worship that need their sound and stream to hold up every week, not just on a good night.
01
Building & Construction Acoustics
Working alongside architects and contractors from the design stage, so a room's acoustics are planned in rather than fixed after the fact.
02
AV Installations
System design and installation for spaces that need to sound as good as they look, from planning through to commissioning.
03
Specialized Acoustic Solutions
Acoustic treatment for medical and clinical environments, including ENT audiology booths, where accuracy isn't negotiable.
04
House of Worship Consultation
FOH, monitor and broadcast management for churches running live services and streams week after week, not just on the big Sundays.
CLIENTS INCLUDE
Phaneroo
The City Church
Makerere Full Gospel Church
All Saints Cathedral
St Andrew's Church Bukoto
and others
SOUND WITH NO
SECOND TAKE
Before any of the screen work there was a stage, and it never went away. I have run front-of-house and systems engineering since 2008, and from 2012 that has meant headline touring production across five houses in East and West Africa, joined over the years by Buzz Group Africa in 2017 and Show Gear in Lagos in 2023. A live rig is a network, a clock, a frequency plan and a gain structure long before it is a console, and the Information Technology degree is what lets me treat it that way. On a big show, most of what fails is one of those four things.
01
Front-of-House Mixing
Headline concerts, festivals and mass gatherings. Jazz at acoustic levels, Afrobeats at full output, choirs and a band sharing one stage. One chance each night to get it right.
02
Systems Engineering
Array design, delay alignment and coverage across open ground, tuned by dual-channel FFT measurement so the correction answers what the venue is actually doing to the sound.
03
Broadcast & Feed Delivery
An isolated feed to the OB van carrying none of the house correction, held to EBU R128 and ATSC A/85, with language-split paths where a broadcast runs multi-lingual and multi-track capture for the mix afterwards.
04
RF & Audio Networking
Frequency scanning, intermodulation analysis and coordinated wireless for handhelds and in-ears, running over Dante networks I can configure down at the switch. Certified Dante Levels 1 and 2.
PRODUCTION HOUSES
Fenon Entertainment · Kampala · 2009
Silk Events · Uganda · 2012
Buzz Group Africa · 2017
Live Gigs · Kenya · 2012
Show Gear · Lagos · 2023
ON STAGE WITH
Isaiah Katumwa
Angelique Kidjo
Hugh Masekela
Kirk Whalum
Morgan Heritage
Davido
Burna Boy
Diamond Platnumz
Fally Ipupa
Boyz II Men
Sauti Sol
Don Moen
Kirk Franklin
Travis Greene
Maverick City
Hillsong
CeCe Winans
Juliana Kanyomozi
Eddy Kenzo
Bebe Cool
Sheebah Karungi
Rema Namakula
Ganda Boys
and others
STAGES & GATHERINGS
Kololo Airstrip
Lugogo Grounds
Ndere Cultural Centre
Phaneroo
Worship Harvest
Miracle Centre
CODE THAT
RUNS THE BUSINESS
I hold a degree in Information Technology, and the same discipline that goes into a film mix goes into the software I build. Most of that work now is AI integration for companies: connecting language models to the systems a business already runs on, so the people inside it get real answers from their own records instead of another chat window. Web platforms, internal tools, automation, and the AI layer that ties them together, written in code so it can be tested, versioned and trusted.
01
Custom Software & Web Platforms
Web applications, internal tools, client portals and learning platforms designed around how a company actually works, then built to keep working after launch.
02
AI Integration for Companies
Connecting AI models to your own data, documents and workflows: assistants that answer from company records, automate the repetitive work and leave the decisions to people.
03
AI Programming & Automation
Agents, pipelines and integrations programmed against the model APIs directly, with the guardrails, logging and fallbacks a business needs before it can rely on them.
04
Systems & AI Strategy
An honest look at what a company runs on, where AI fits and where it doesn't, and a roadmap a small team can actually deliver.
RECENT BUILDS
Q, the AI company brain inside QUAD-A's operations room
Quad-A Academy online learning platform
QUAD-A Command Center
XP Africa sound library store
BUILT WITH
PHP · WordPress
JavaScript · Node.js
Python
Claude & OpenAI APIs
Progressive Web Apps
MySQL · REST APIs
3 COLD DISHES
Original score and full audio post for Burna Boy's pan-African thriller, shot across three countries.
COMPOSER · SUPERVISING SOUND EDITOR · RE-RECORDING MIXERGANGS OF LAGOS
Re-recording mixer on Prime Video's Nollywood crime saga, one of the platform's biggest African originals.
RE-RECORDING MIXERALL WORKS
THE SCORES
11 soundtrack releases and counting, streaming everywhere.
ALSO STREAMING
- 3 Cold Dishes2026
- Boundary Mwisho2026
- Replay2026
- Infinity2023
- Building 622023
- Ubuntu Uppercut2023
- I Hate It Here2023
- The Blind Date2022
MOST PLAYED
- Ruhanga
- Shemezana Ruhanga
- Akampene Island
- Lets Train
- Tononza
- The Fight
- Abakikuru
- Iron Lady's Friends
- Fresh Start
- The Mission