Collaboration is foundational to McCorkle’s artistic practice. Collaborating with other artists, organizations, and foundations brings his distinctive style to a variety of different topics and themes.

A lone figure wanders through virtual wetlands where the human voice has vanished, collecting fragments of lost sound to reawaken the world.

Sound artist Matt McCorkle composed the immersive score in collaboration with Jakob Kudsk Steensen and vocalist Lyra Pramuk. He shaped a responsive soundscape that blends field recordings, synthesis, and spatial acoustics to mirror the rhythm of the environment. The result turns the gallery itself into a resonant instrument where sound carries the memory of song.

Lead Artist: Jakob Kudsk Steensen

Exhibited at Fondation Louis Vuitton

Two silhouettes reach across a luminous screen, meeting through motion, reflection, and sound.

Composer Matt McCorkle created the responsive audio in collaboration with Lisa Jamhoury, shaping a score that reacts to the movement of participants in real time. Harmonies bloom when bodies align and gentle tension returns when they drift apart. Through spatial sound and careful pacing, McCorkle transforms digital interaction into an intimate, shared experience of connection.

Lead Artist: Lisa Jamhoury

Exhibited at Onassis ONX Studio, New York City

eco-narratives amplified through dreams

In collaboration with Jakob Kudsk Stenseen, Boreal Dreams explores how different changes to our climate also impact changes within us, how we dream, think and sleep. Presented in two parts, a virtual world and online interactive artwork, Boreal Dreams traverses the boreal, from North America to Scandinavia, a realm of where environments are shifting and with this, so are intelligences and consciousness.

Commissioned by the Fondation Beyeler as part of the historical painting show Northern Lights curated by Helga Christoffersen and Ulf Küster, whilst Northern Lights celebrates the boreal’s historical past from national perspectives, Boreal Dreams conjures ecological futures to be considered - a hugely influential ecological region for stabilising our planet climate internationally.

You can explore a digital version of this installation at BorealDreams.live.

Lead Artist: Jakob Kudsk Steensen

Exhibited at Beyeler Foundation & Tribeca Film Festival

lived experiences amplified through XR

In collaboration with Cameron Kostopoulos, this haptic VR experience shares the true story of Carolyn Mercer, a survivor of electroshock conversion therapy aimed at 'correcting' her gender identity. Through wearable haptic vests, sleeves, and gloves, participants physically connect to the rhythm of Carolyn’s heartbeat, the cadence of her breath, and the tremors of the procedures she endured. Her journey confronts the inhumanity of these practices and highlights the extraordinary strength it takes to live authentically.

eco-narratives amplified through magical realms

“Nocturnal Fugue”, in collaboration with Jiabao Li, is an immersive world of bats. Their social vocalizations transform into evocative music set to imaginative digital recreations of their natural habitats. Each digital habitat crafts a different sense of scale and time, creating a mood centric to the social vocalizations that are being heard and felt. As their sounds are transmogrified into imaginative soundscapes you are transported into the unique sonic world of bats through spatial sound, immersive projections, and haptic vibrations.

American Museum of Natural History

McCorkle sound designs and composes music for all of the American Museum of Natural History special exhibitions since 2017. His work can be heard when the shows are on display in New York City or when the exhibitions travel the world to other natural history museums.

“Senses: An Immersive Experience”

“Unseen Oceans”

“T.rex The Ultimate Predator”

“Color”

“Sharks”

“The Secret World Of Elephants”

XR Installation Collaborations

McCorkle frequently collaborates on XR installations with other artists and institutions. From small scale AR interactives to large scale sound installations with 30+ speakers. Selected artists and their XR installations include:

Frost Museum’s “Power Of Science”

Ali Sanata’s “WALLS”

Tyler Pridgen’s “Luxury Escapism”

Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s “The Deep Listener”

Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s “Berlberl”

Virtual Reality Collaborations

McCorkle frequently collaborates on virtual reality projects providing immersive sound design that enriches the story being told. Selected artists and their virtual reality projects include:

“When Brooklyn Was Queer VR”

Xin Liu’s “Living Distance”

Jiabao Li’s “Once A Glacier”

Wa Lui’s “Devil’s Ivy”

Rada Studio’s “Changing Same”

Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s “Liminal Lands”

A.M.N.H’s “T.rex Skeleton Crew”