Bobby McElver is a sound designer, composer, and spatial audio artist working in theatre, dance, and installation art. He builds his own tools, including wave field synthesis loudspeaker arrays with hundreds of speakers. He can create “sound holograms” that float in space and fly around the room. More about him here.
NOMINATED FOR A 2024 HELEN HAYES AWARD
for Outstanding Sound Design for Moisés Kaufman / Tectonic Theater Project’s Here There Are Blueberries, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist
“Ace sound design.”
- Alexis Soloski, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Excellent sound design.”
- Ben Brantley, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Ominous...”
- LOS ANGELES TIMES
“A haunting score.”
- LOS ANGELES TIMES
"McElver best exemplifies the weird rightness of [Richard] Maxwell's aesthetic experiment."
- Charles McNulty, LOS ANGELES TIMES
“A clever, pop-inflected score.”
- GOTHAMIST
Wave Field Synthesis
Wave Field Synthesis is a spatial audio rendering technique that creates “sound holograms” in 3D space.
EVENT & CONCERT DESIGN
Audio reactivity for video and lights. Interactive tools for artists. Playback engineering.
