Archive
A record of all previous Dyski residencies.
If you'd like us to run any of these again, please let us know.
If enough people are interested we'll try to make it happen.
If you'd like us to run any of these again, please let us know.
If enough people are interested we'll try to make it happen.
Weekend Modular
Radio Music
Tom Whitwell
November 2-6, 2025
A hands-on residency exploring radio as both a source of sound and a creative method, working with surprise, unpredictability, and new ways of listening and composing.
Visual Music with Lea Fabrikant and Tarik Barri
April 18–22, 2026
A residency exploring visual music, treating sound and image as interdependent elements that evolve together through time, gesture, and improvisation.
Works in Progress:
Make Your Own Tools
April 24–28, 2026
A collaborative residency for musicians and sound artists designing personal tools, instruments, and ways of working, supported by shared space and open-ended making.
This edition of Works in Progress focuses on developing personal tools for making sound. Participants are invited to experiment with software, hardware, objects, and self-designed systems, exploring ways of working that grow out of their own practice.
Designed for musicians and sound artists who sense that their way of making music is shifting, particularly in relation to the tools, instruments, or systems they work with, and who want time and space to explore what that change might lead to.
This edition of Works in Progress focuses on developing personal tools for making sound. Participants are invited to experiment with software, hardware, objects, and self-designed systems, exploring ways of working that grow out of their own practice.
Designed for musicians and sound artists who sense that their way of making music is shifting, particularly in relation to the tools, instruments, or systems they work with, and who want time and space to explore what that change might lead to.
Sound Maps
with Tom Whitwell
An Album in One Week with Graphic Scores
Three editions of Sound Maps have taken place: two in Cornwall, UK, and one hosted by the Responsive Ecologies Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University, taking place on Toronto Island. The residency focuses on collaboration, experimental scoring, and rapid album making in response to place.
2025
2024
Biophilic Sound:
Helen Anahita Wilson
October 13–17, 2025
Composing with Plants
A residency exploring biophilic sound and plant-derived music, working with plant biodata, bioelectricity, and botanical material to generate sound and develop new compositions. Set in private woodland in Lamorna, West Penwith
Cinematic Sound
July 7–11, 2025
Film, Music & the Spaces Between
A collaboration between Dyski and Zennor Sounds, hosted at Sam Okell's Dolby Atmos studio in Zennor. Composers, musicians, and sound artists worked together on a collective film score and individual sound pieces, with daily sessions from guest artists including film composers, foley artists, and sound designers.
Writing Seas & Trees
Wyl Menmuir
September 9–13, 2024
Exploring the Draw of the Woodlands and Oceans
A writing retreat exploring the draw of woodland and ocean, led by the award-winning Cornish author. Participants wrote in response to the natural landscape, guided by Wyl's own practice and his books The Draw of the Sea and The Heart of the Woods.
Sonic Rituals
A Man Called Adam
March 30–April 03, 2024
Building a Sound Art Practice with Drs Sally Rodgers & Steve Jones
A residency exploring sound art and the Cornish landscape with electronic music pioneers Sally Rodgers and Steve Jones, working with field recording, the natural environment, and the ancient surroundings of West Penwith.
Impossible Stories
Catrina Davies
January 8–12, 2024
February 1–5, 2026
The politics of place and the craft of memoir writing.
A residential writing workshop exploring the politics of place and the craft of memoir, set in the Cornish landscape. Participants worked on developing an authentic voice and the foundations of a new writing practice.
Immersive, place-based workshops and residencies.
Focused on process, experimentation, and learning through practice.
Pronounced ['dɪski], a Cornish verb meaning to learn, or to teach.
Focused on process, experimentation, and learning through practice.
Pronounced ['dɪski], a Cornish verb meaning to learn, or to teach.
Dyski runs residencies and workshops for musicians, composers, writers, sound artists and anyone working at the edges of their practice.
We work primarily in Cornwall, UK and occasionally further afield, led by practitioners across experimental music, sound art, modular synthesis, audiovisual performance, field recording, electroacoustic composition, writing and expanded creative practice.
Our residencies emphasise process, experimentation and close engagement with place, with funded places available to support access.
We work primarily in Cornwall, UK and occasionally further afield, led by practitioners across experimental music, sound art, modular synthesis, audiovisual performance, field recording, electroacoustic composition, writing and expanded creative practice.
Our residencies emphasise process, experimentation and close engagement with place, with funded places available to support access.