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Nick Batterham is an AFI/AACTA award nominated sound designer and ARIA nominated musician, based in Naarm / Melbourne, Australia.

Most recently, Nick is known for his contemporary classical soundtracks and immersive sound design for the artist Rone. Rone's Time (2022-23) installation at Melbourne's iconic Flinders Street Station was experienced by over 100,000 visitors. Time was subsequently installed at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Nick also collaborated on Rone's previous projects, Rone In Geelong (2021) and Empire (2019) which won Best Collaboration at the TDF Design Awards in 2019.

In October 2025, Batterham released an album of contemporary classical music called First Snow (music for piano and strings), with a premiere concert at Tempo Rubato in Brunswick. He has previously released three classical soundtracks from his Rone installations.

In 2024, he created the music and sound design for the web series Buried, which won the AACTA award for Best Online Drama or Comedy.

He has provided musical score to many films, including feature documentaries Bromley: Light After Dark (2023) and Queens Of Concrete (2024), and sound design for feature films The Plains (2022), All This Mayhem (2014) and Lionel (2009), which was nominated for an AFI award for best sound in a documentary. He has won Best Sound at Flickerfest twice and Best Sound in a Documentary at the Australian Screen Sound Guild Awards.

At his recording studio in Pascoe Vale South, Nick has created music for commercial clients including Cussons Morning Fresh, Bank Australia, Puma, Rip Curl, ACTU, Worksafe and Emporium Melbourne.

Nick is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts school of film and television. As writer-director of the AFC funded short film, The Audience, Nick was nominated for a prestigious Dendy Award at the Sydney Film Festival in 2005.

Nick has released seven albums as a solo singer-songwriter, most recently The Sentimentalist (2024, Cheersquad Records) and Lovebirds (2021, Cheersquad Records) which he launched with a live performance at Melbourne Recital Centre's Primrose Potter Salon.

Throughout the 1990's, Nick toured extensively as guitarist and co-songwriter with indie-rock band The Earthmen. Their album Love Walked In (1997, Warner Music) received 5-star reviews and an ARIA nomination for best debut album. Since 2009, Nick has been guitarist and producer with the band Cordrazine.

Nick Batterham — current to February 2026