Visual Music with Lea Fabrikant and Tarik Barri
April 18–22, 2026
Create real-time visuals that move like music
For musicians who want to add a visual dimension to their work, and visual artists who want to work musically with sound, structure, and live systems.
The Basics- Five nights accommodation in Cornwall
- Four full days of workshops, shared sessions, and guided exploration
- All meals included, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and drinks, with all dietary requirements accommodated
- A small group setting, allowing time, space, and focused exchange
The Highlights
- Work closely with Lea Fabrikant and Tarik Barri throughout the week, learning through shared experimentation rather than formal instruction
- Explore live audiovisual systems where sound and image respond to each other in real time
- Work hands-on with video treated as musical material inside Ableton Live
- Develop your own audiovisual practice through individual and collaborative work
- Share processes, test ideas together, and learn through collective experimentation
- Optional time to walk, reflect, and reset within the surrounding woodland and river landscape
This residency costs from £1250
The fee brings together an expert-led, curated residency programme alongside accommodation and full catering for the week.
Shared room £1250
Private king £1600
Private king with en suite £1700
Non residential £600
The non residential option includes full participation in all workshops and shared sessions, plus all daytime meals and refreshments.
This week-long residency is an invitation to step inside a space where sound and image share one language. Where visuals pulse, breathe, and phrase with the music.
Led by Lea Fabrikant and Tarik Barri, the residency explores the idea of visual music and how it might connect to your own creative interests and ways of working. Across the week, sound and image are treated not as separate layers, but as interdependent elements that evolve together through time, gesture, and improvisation.
At the heart of the residency is hands-on experimentation. The focus is on video synchronisation and live visual tools that connect directly to musical structure, rhythm, and movement. Visuals are approached as instruments in their own right, capable of phrasing, variation, and responsiveness, rather than as decoration or fixed media.
We will work with Videosync, co-developed by Tarik, which allows video to be treated like audio inside Ableton Live. Using familiar musical tools such as Warp Markers, Racks, Macros, Simpler, automation, and modulation, visuals can be warped, looped, layered, and shaped through time. This creates fluid, playable relationships between sound and image, suitable for live performance, installation, and studio practice.
Improvisation and experimentation are central to the week. Some work may remain rough, provisional, or unfinished. That is part of the practice. Alongside technical exploration, there will be space to reflect on creative process, including how ideas move from initial intuition into realised form, and how doubt, fragility, and imperfection can become productive forces within creative work.
Who this residency is for
This week is open to musicians who want to add visual dimensions to their live performances, visual and installation artists interested in working with sound and musical structure, artists curious about live audiovisual practice and generative systems, and anyone drawn to the space where audio and visual arts meet, whether in performance, installation, or studio contexts.
You might arrive with a clear project in mind, or with only curiosity. Both are welcome. The residency is open to everyone from beginner to expert. What matters most is a willingness to experiment.
What we will explore
Across the week, we will move between shared sessions, individual work, and collaboration. Together, we'll explore how visuals can function as instruments rather than fixed media, and how timing, structure, and synchronisation deepen the relationship between audio and image. We’ll share processes, test ideas together, and learn through doing.
We will also focus on the delicate process of transforming a creative idea into reality, from initial inspiration to practical realisation, involving navigation of doubts, expectations, inspirations, and comparisons, allowing space for constructive criticism, and embracing fragility and mistakes as sources of strength and uniqueness.
The setting
The residency takes place on a private 50-acre estate of meadow and ancient woodland overlooking the Helford River. There is space to work indoors and outdoors, with the surrounding woodland and river offering quiet focus and room to step away from screens when needed.
The residency is fully catered, with breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided each day.
By the end of the week
You will leave with:
This residency is about testing ideas, developing audiovisual worlds, and learning how sound and image can think together.
Led by Lea Fabrikant and Tarik Barri, the residency explores the idea of visual music and how it might connect to your own creative interests and ways of working. Across the week, sound and image are treated not as separate layers, but as interdependent elements that evolve together through time, gesture, and improvisation.
At the heart of the residency is hands-on experimentation. The focus is on video synchronisation and live visual tools that connect directly to musical structure, rhythm, and movement. Visuals are approached as instruments in their own right, capable of phrasing, variation, and responsiveness, rather than as decoration or fixed media.
We will work with Videosync, co-developed by Tarik, which allows video to be treated like audio inside Ableton Live. Using familiar musical tools such as Warp Markers, Racks, Macros, Simpler, automation, and modulation, visuals can be warped, looped, layered, and shaped through time. This creates fluid, playable relationships between sound and image, suitable for live performance, installation, and studio practice.
Improvisation and experimentation are central to the week. Some work may remain rough, provisional, or unfinished. That is part of the practice. Alongside technical exploration, there will be space to reflect on creative process, including how ideas move from initial intuition into realised form, and how doubt, fragility, and imperfection can become productive forces within creative work.
Who this residency is for
This week is open to musicians who want to add visual dimensions to their live performances, visual and installation artists interested in working with sound and musical structure, artists curious about live audiovisual practice and generative systems, and anyone drawn to the space where audio and visual arts meet, whether in performance, installation, or studio contexts.
You might arrive with a clear project in mind, or with only curiosity. Both are welcome. The residency is open to everyone from beginner to expert. What matters most is a willingness to experiment.
What we will explore
Across the week, we will move between shared sessions, individual work, and collaboration. Together, we'll explore how visuals can function as instruments rather than fixed media, and how timing, structure, and synchronisation deepen the relationship between audio and image. We’ll share processes, test ideas together, and learn through doing.
We will also focus on the delicate process of transforming a creative idea into reality, from initial inspiration to practical realisation, involving navigation of doubts, expectations, inspirations, and comparisons, allowing space for constructive criticism, and embracing fragility and mistakes as sources of strength and uniqueness.
The setting
The residency takes place on a private 50-acre estate of meadow and ancient woodland overlooking the Helford River. There is space to work indoors and outdoors, with the surrounding woodland and river offering quiet focus and room to step away from screens when needed.
The residency is fully catered, with breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided each day.
By the end of the week
You will leave with:
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A deeper understanding of live audiovisual practice and real-time systems
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Practical tools and workflows to take back into your own creative work
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New ways of thinking about the relationship between sound, image, and performance
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Connections with artists working across disciplines
This residency is about testing ideas, developing audiovisual worlds, and learning how sound and image can think together.
Join us for a week of focused experimentation, shared learning, and audiovisual exploration.
Residency Leads
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Lea Fabrikant is a multidisciplinary artist. She works as a sound artist, performer, DJ, curator, and photographer, compiling and creating expressions that embrace and feed on errors as fragile necessities. Her practice centers on improvisation, using her voice, instruments/ objects and field recordings. Merging coincidences, intentions, sounds and visuals, both pure or heavily processed, into something deeply personal.
︎︎︎ leafabrikant.com
︎ leafabrikant
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Tarik Barri is an audiovisual composer and software developer working across composition, coding, performance, and visual art. He creates live audiovisual works using tools he programs himself, and has collaborated with artists including Thom Yorke, Ben Frost, Nicolas Jaar, and Monolake. His performances explore tightly integrated relationships between sound and image, where visuals behave musically and respond in real time.
︎︎︎ tarikbarri.nl
︎︎︎ showsync.com
︎ tarik_barri
Together, Lea and Tarik perform as Zo, creating and improvising within 3D audiovisual worlds.
Links:
Explore some of their wider work here. As Zo, Lea Fabrikant and Tarik Barri create live audiovisual performances where sound and image evolve together in real time, including Ka’et, described by Fact Magazine as a virtual universe built from sound and light.
Tarik has also performed live visuals with Thom Yorke on Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, and develops Videosync, a software instrument for treating video like music.
He has also collaborated with Sote on Sacred Horror in Design, an intense audiovisual work that combines distorted electronics, ritualistic rhythm, and live visuals to create a visceral, physical performance space.
Residency Support :
Dyski founder Dion Star, a writer and musician who develops and hosts the Dyski residency programme and works across experimental sound, creative process and collaborative practice.
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︎︎︎ dionstar.co.uk
︎ dionstar
Lea Fabrikant is a multidisciplinary artist. She works as a sound artist, performer, DJ, curator, and photographer, compiling and creating expressions that embrace and feed on errors as fragile necessities. Her practice centers on improvisation, using her voice, instruments/ objects and field recordings. Merging coincidences, intentions, sounds and visuals, both pure or heavily processed, into something deeply personal.
︎︎︎ leafabrikant.com
︎ leafabrikant
Tarik Barri is an audiovisual composer and software developer working across composition, coding, performance, and visual art. He creates live audiovisual works using tools he programs himself, and has collaborated with artists including Thom Yorke, Ben Frost, Nicolas Jaar, and Monolake. His performances explore tightly integrated relationships between sound and image, where visuals behave musically and respond in real time.
︎︎︎ tarikbarri.nl
︎︎︎ showsync.com
︎ tarik_barri
Together, Lea and Tarik perform as Zo, creating and improvising within 3D audiovisual worlds.
Links:
Explore some of their wider work here. As Zo, Lea Fabrikant and Tarik Barri create live audiovisual performances where sound and image evolve together in real time, including Ka’et, described by Fact Magazine as a virtual universe built from sound and light.
Tarik has also performed live visuals with Thom Yorke on Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, and develops Videosync, a software instrument for treating video like music.
He has also collaborated with Sote on Sacred Horror in Design, an intense audiovisual work that combines distorted electronics, ritualistic rhythm, and live visuals to create a visceral, physical performance space.
Residency Support :
Dyski founder Dion Star, a writer and musician who develops and hosts the Dyski residency programme and works across experimental sound, creative process and collaborative practice.
︎︎︎ dionstar.co.uk
︎ dionstar
Accommodation options
We offer a small number of room types. Each option is booked separately and subject to availability.
Private King with ensuite (1)
Private King (3)
Single bed (6)
Shared twin (x 1)
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We offer a small number of room types. Each option is booked separately and subject to availability.
Private King with ensuite (1)
Private King (3)
Single bed (6)
Shared twin (x 1)
Private Rooms
Private King with ensuite
A private room for one person with a king-size bed and ensuite bathroom. Includes patio doors out to a terrace and garden. Light-filled and peaceful.
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Private King
A private room with a king-size bed and shared bathroom. First-floor, light-filled, with garden or creek views.
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Private King with ensuite
A private room for one person with a king-size bed and ensuite bathroom. Includes patio doors out to a terrace and garden. Light-filled and peaceful.
Private King
A private room with a king-size bed and shared bathroom. First-floor, light-filled, with garden or creek views.
Shared rooms
Single bed in a room shared with up to three other guests. Each person has their own recessed alcove with a bed, reading light, and storage. Shared bathrooms are light-filled and beautifully designed.
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Shared twin
One twin room is available for two people travelling together. This option is by request. Please email us if you would like to share.
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Single bed in a room shared with up to three other guests. Each person has their own recessed alcove with a bed, reading light, and storage. Shared bathrooms are light-filled and beautifully designed.
Shared twinOne twin room is available for two people travelling together. This option is by request. Please email us if you would like to share.
Funded places and access
There are two fully funded places available for this residency, intended to support those who may need financial assistance to attend.
Funded places cover the residency fee, accommodation, and all meals for the week. Travel costs are not included.
Access is important to us. If there is anything that might make attending difficult, including access to Ableton Live or a suitable laptop, please let us know when applying. We will do what we can to support access, including sourcing a loan system where possible.
How to apply
To apply for a funded place, please submit a short statement of no more than 300 words explaining why you would like to take part, what you hope to gain from the experience, and how it would support your practice.
Grant deadline: March 13, 2026.
Apply for a funded place
Dyski
Pronounced [dɪski], a Cornish Verb which means to learn, or to teach.
Creative residential workshops in Cornwall with a focus on immersive, experimental & place-based learning.
Pronounced [dɪski], a Cornish Verb which means to learn, or to teach.
Creative residential workshops in Cornwall with a focus on immersive, experimental & place-based learning.
Grants
We offer cutting-edge immersive workshops that nurture creativity, emphasising community support and giving back. Each Dyski workshop includes two grants, designed to assist those who may need financial support to attend.
We offer cutting-edge immersive workshops that nurture creativity, emphasising community support and giving back. Each Dyski workshop includes two grants, designed to assist those who may need financial support to attend.