These days, besides working in a hearing aid laboratory he also makes time to give talks at multi-media festivals around Australia.
Performing at festivals such as Queensland Art Week, ADAPT, and MAAP, (Multi-media Art Asia Pacific) Andrew's reputation is fairly well established in the Brisbane art scene.

Last year he did a performance called 'The Turing Test' at the Zoo in Fortitude Valley which involved eight electric organs purchaced through the trading post, and placed in a circle. A weight was holding down one key and Kettle ran around the circle moving the weight up one key as he passed. He says it was interesting to see how people responded.

"It was really quite strange to see how people interacted," he says.

Some didn't appreciate the interruption to their beer drinking, others continued playing pool seemingly oblivious, while a few even followed him around the circle. The marathon run took him about 30 minutes.

Part of the performance can be found on Kettle's self titled album which also features pictures of the 8 organs on the front cover.

Kettle does his own recordings and promotion but said that his focus is not just on selling his music but selling himself. He mostly does performances, which are not like watching traditional musicians play their instruments, but are about the sounds which art can create.

Last month a performance he did at the Angry Mime Theatre involved wearing a black tai-chi outfit with inductive pickups fashioned as rings and wires running up his arms and back to the mixing desk. He had a variety of modern appliances which, as his hands moved near, enabled viewers to listen to the sounds of their electromagnetic fields.

Kettle says he wanted the performance to be educational and to build on peoples awareness of what's going on around them.

"We're siting in this amazing soup of radiation and broadcasts," he says.

For somthing a little light hearted, Kettle's interactive "Lotto" CD is the way to go. It's sports 45 tracks which are each only about 15 seconds long.

What you need to do is get a lotto ticket, pick your seven numbers and then put the CD on random. If your numbers are picked then you're a winner. Alternately you could use it to pick your real lotto numbers.

Although what Kettle and other sound artists like him create doesn't rival products produced by the mainstream music industry, he says that when you group the multiple styles together it produces quite an extensive range of art.