Bobby McElver is a sound designer, composer, and spatial audio artist working in theatre, dance, and installation art. He builds custom wave field synthesis loudspeaker arrays to create "sound holograms"—sounds that fly through three-dimensional space and whisper into a single ear from across the room.
RECIPIENT OF THE 2026 FLAGSHIP GRANT FROM BOBBY ANSPACH STUDIOS FOUNDATION
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
“Excellent sound design.”
- Ben Brantley, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Ace sound design.”
- Alexis Soloski, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Ominous...”
- 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
“A haunting score.”
- LOS ANGELES TIMES
