CLOVIS MCEVOY

Virtual Music. Live Electronics. Sound Art.

NEWS

ARMADILLO GALLERY

June 10, 2020

My acousmatic work Flâneur was exhibited as a binaural installation at Armadillo Gallery in Leipzig

NEW COMMISSION FOR VIRTUAL REALITY

May 26, 2020

Hugely grateful and excited to be commissioned be Creative NZ to develop a new work of sound art for virtual reality - more details coming soon!

KUNSTRAUM REUTER GALLERY

May 24, 2020

My acousmatic work, Death Warmed Up was exhibited as a binaural installation at Kunstraum Reuter Gallery in Berlin

THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN: SOUNDSCAPE MUSIC FROM AOTEAROA NZ

March 2, 2020

My multi-channel acousmatic work, Fläneur, was performed at the Christchurch Arts Centre as part of an exciting program of New Zealand Soundscape music

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE AT THE TAKT INSTITUTE, BERLIN

February 10, 2020

Excited to begin my 6-month residency at the TAKT Institute in Berlin

DRAWING ROOM - VOID

January 5, 2020

Beginning work on a new commission to create sound and music for a virtual reality project to be debuted at the Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch

ZEITGEIST AT THE AUDIO FOUNDATION

November 22, 2019

Touched to have a full house for the Zeitgeist concert. Imogen Morris and Kristian Larsen gave a enthralling premier of my new work - Effector//Attractor//Captor

PILLARS OF INTROSPECTION WINS THE DOUGLAS LILBURN COMPOSITION PRIZE

October 25, 2019

Pillars of Introspection, written for the emerging medium of virtual music was awarded the top honour at the Douglas Lilburn Composition Prize concert.

AWARDED THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND BLUES AWARD FOR MOST MERITORIOUS PERFORMANCE IN THE ARTS

September 27, 2019

Honoured to have been selected out of 130 potential candidates for one of 8 major awards given by the University of Auckland

PILLARS OF INTROSPECTION AT CONVERGENCE FESTIVAL, UNITED KINGDOM

September 12-15, 2019

My new virtual music work will exhibited for 4 days at the University of De Montfort, Leicester as part of the Convergence Festival

PILLARS OF INTROSPECTION PREMIERE AT BIFEM, AUSTRALIA

September 6-8, 2019

Pillars of Introspection Premieres at the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music in Bendigo, Australia

AWARDED THE DONNY CHARITABLE TRUST SCHOLARSHIP

July 12, 2019

Honoured to be awarded the Donny Charitable Trust Scholarship to fund the tour of my new virtual music work - Pillars of Introspection - to Australia and the UK and my residency at the TAKT Institute in Berlin, Germany

BIO

Clovis McEvoy is an award-winning composer, sound artist and researcher.

Clovis specialises in music for virtual reality and works for instruments and electronics, creating customised algorithms for interactive installations and performances. Clovis also writes for dance, theatre, short film, acousmatic and ensembles. His works have been performed in America, France, England, Italy, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and Switzerland.

An active researcher, Clovis has presented papers on audio-visual relationships, virtual music and compositional practice at conferences in Japan, Italy and New Zealand.

Currently based in Berlin as an Artist-In-Residence at the TAKT Institute, Clovis is in the process of developing a new interactive work of sound art for the emerging medium of virtual reality.