About

Clovis McEvoy is an award winning composer, sonic artist, interaction designer, and writer. His creative practice incorporates acousmatic and live electroacoustic music, interactive audiovisual installations, and music for virtual reality. His creative practice is driven by a desire to communicate personal, societal, and environmental issues with directness and empathy.

He has received a number of notable distinctions, including the APRA-AMCOS Professional Development Grant, the Donny Charitable Trust Travelling Scholarship, a Developing Your Creative Practice Grant from Arts Council England, the University of Auckland Blues Award for ‘Most Meritorious Performance’, and 1st place in the Lilburn Trust Composition Prize. His creative works have been performed in over 17 countries.

Clovis is currently an Affiliate Researcher at the Shared Hub for Immersive Future Technologies (SHIFT) Lab at the University of Greenwich where he is furthering his immersive artmaking practice.

Recent Performances and Exhibitions

2025 October – Calls for Cages, Acousmatic

Sonic Nomads, TILT, Seoul, South Korea

2025 September – Calls for Cages, Acousmatic

Sound and Environment Symposium, Newcastle University, Newcastle, England

2025 July – Calls for Cages, Acousmatic

NOIS//E Multimedia Festival, Palazzo Santa Chiara, Tropea, Italy

2025 April – Calls for Cages, Acousmatic

Radiophenia, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland

2025 February – Calls for Cages, Acousmatic

MANIFEST:IO Music Festival, Haus Der Visionäre, Berlin, Germany

2024 November – King Tide 皇潮, Audiovisual Installation

Sound/Image Festival, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London, England

2024 September – Calls for Cages, Acousmatic

Seanaps Festival, Online Stream, Cashmere Radio

2024 July – King Tide 皇潮, Audiovisual Installation

Pier-2 Arts Centre, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2022 June – Pillars of Introspection, Virtual Reality Installation

Sound and Music Computing Festival, Saint-Étienne, France [selected, unable to attend]

2022 February – Flâneur, Acousmatic

Radiophenia, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland

2021 October – Death Warmed Up, Acousmatic

Epicentroom Festival, Epicentroom, St Petersberg, Russia

2021 July – Pillars of Introspection, Virtual Reality Installation

International Computer Music Conference, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile [selected, unable to attend]

2021 June – Pillars of Introspection, Virtual Reality Installation

NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival, virtual

2020 November – Edge of Shadow, Virtual Reality Installation

Drawing Room Exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand

Residencies

2025 February-March – Artist-in-Residence, Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany [Selected, unable to attend]
2025 January-April – Artist-in-Residence, Spreepark Art Space, Berlin, Germany [Scheduled]
2020 August – Artist-in-Residence, DME-Seia, Portugal
2020 February-July – Artist-in-Residence, TAKT Institute Berlin-Leipzig, Germany

Grants and Commissions

2022 – Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) Grant
2019 – Creative NZ Arts Commission to Develop a New Musical Work for Virtual Reality
2019 – Donny Charitable Trust Grant
2018 – Creative NZ Quick Response Grant
2018 – University of Auckland Vice Chancellor’s Grant
2017 – Creative NZ Quick Response Grant
2017 – APRA-AMCOS Professional Development Grant
2015 – Creative NZ Quick Response Grant

Awards

2019 – 1st place at the Lilburn Trust Composition Prize
2019 – Creative Arts and Industries Staff Excellence Award
2019 – University of Auckland ‘Major Award’ Blue for ‘Most Meritorious Performance’
2019 – University of Auckland Blue award for Arts
2019 – University of Auckland ‘Most Valuable Professional Staff Member’ award
2017 – University of Auckland Blue award for Arts
2014 – 1st place at the Lilburn Trust Composition Prize
2013 – 2nd equal place at the Lilburn Trust Composition Prize
2013 – University of Auckland Blue award for Arts
2013 – University of Auckland Blue award for Services and Leadership
2012 – 2nd equal place at the Lilburn Trust Composition Prize

Research Presentations

2021 – Virtual Music: a new studio practice, Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS), De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
2021 – Pillars of Introspection: a work of virtual music, IRCAM Forum, IRCAM, Paris, France
2021 – Sound and Music in XR: Current approaches and future possibilities, International XR Workshop, University of Auckland, Auckland New Zealand
2019 – Materiality in Motion: Ecologies of Transformation, ACM Creativity and Cognition (C&C), UC San Diego, USA
2018 – Recomposed Relationships: Isomorphic paradoxes and media pairings, Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS), Florence, Italy
2018 – A Study in Virtual Music: Embodied Interaction, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Daegu, South Korea
2017 – The audio-visual contract within multi-modal virtual reality environments, Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
2017 – Recomposed Relationships: Isomorphic paradoxes and media pairings, Composer's Association of New Zealand (CANZ), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand