I am a New Zealand born writer, composer, audiovisual artist, and researcher based in both Auckland, New Zealand, and London, England.
I write for a number of music and culture focused publications, and regularly profile electronic musicians, composers, visual artists, software developers, and hardware manufacturers. My opinion pieces have touched on issues as diverse as the impact of AI on labour rights, sexism in VR hardware design, and the balance of power between independent musicians and majors labels.
Currently, I'm working on a research paper that places music for virtual reality within the historical context of sonic arts and proposes a practical framework composers can use to effectively engage with the medium.
For the past three years, I have been developing a virtual reality installation that examines the subjective experience of memory, family, society, and landscape. Realised as a virtual sculpture garden, this large-scale project see’s Clovis taking on the role of composer, visual artist, and interaction designer. Development of the work is financially supported by the national funding body, Creative New Zealand, and its NZ and UK premier is planned for early 2026.
As a composer and artist, I believe the arts have an essential role to play in ensuring that the new communication paradigms of our age are used for more than coercion and consumption, and that the emergent technologies of artificial intelligence and extended reality are harnessed for unconstrained creativity and social good.
