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.

Radio Music
Tom Whitwell

November 15-20, 2026
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.

A residency exploring visual music, treating sound and image as interdependent elements that evolve together through time, gesture, and improvisation.

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.

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

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

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. 

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. 

Nature Writing and the Landscapes That Define Us

What draws us to stone? What does it mean to write from a landscape shaped by rock and earth, by the weight of what endures? From mountains and caves to stone circles and quarries, from Neolithic carvings to the buildings we live and work in, stone is everywhere beneath us and around us, shaping not only our landscapes but our imaginations and the ways we live together. 

Sonic Rituals
A Man Called Adam

March 30–April 03, 2024

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.

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.

1. Impossible Stories, 8 January 2024
2. Sonic Rituals, 29 March 2024
3. Sound Maps, 13 April 2024
4. Seas & Trees, 9 September 2024
5. 3 Day Writing (R&D), 30 March 2025
6. Composing with Tape 1, 21 April 2025
7. Sound Maps, 26 April 2025
8. Cinematic Sounds, 7 July 2025
9. Composing with Tape 2, 27 September 2025
10. Biophilic Sound, 13 October 2025
11. Radio Music, 2 November 2025
12. Impossible Stories, 1 February 2026
13. Sound Maps, Toronto, 2 March 2026
14. Weekend Modular with Loula Yorke, 13 March 2026
15. Visual Music, 18 April 2026
16. Works in Progress, 24 April 2026
17. Weekend Modular with RYK, 22 May 2026
18. Weekend Modular with Mylar Melodies, 3 July 2026
19. Writing Stone, 7 September 2026
20. Composing with Tape, 19 September 2026
21. The Mixing Residency, 12 October 202
22. Radio Music 2, 15 November 2026