Bobby McElver is a Southern California-based sound designer, musician, and spatial audio researcher working with theater, dance, film and media. A former member of the theatre company The Wooster Group, he has toured internationally for over a decade and presented works in many major cities. As an artist-engineer, McElver’s research focuses on developing new spatial audio technology — specifically Wave Field Synthesis and “sound holograms” — and applying the technology in context of an artistic work. He has recently joined the department of Theatre & Dance at UCSD.