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

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”

AI generated narratives

“The Last Algorithm”, in collaboration with John Fitzgerald, is an immersive world of AI and emotion. In this generative environment, you'll discover unique areas to explore, each populated by distinct AI avatar characters. Powered by ChatGPT, these characters believe they are unique individuals. Your ability to infuse various emotions — anger, love, fear, joy, anxiety — into their dialogues allows you to influence the course of these AI interactions. Potentially bolstering or derailing their conversations. As you infuse emotions, the world starts to shift into different emotional states.

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.

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:

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”