The School of Film, Music & Theatre is delighted to announce artist Joshua Dyson as the 2024-25 recipient of the UCC-Cork Opera House MRes Studentship.

20 Nov 2024

Dyson (he/him) is a sound researcher, metalworker, performer and installation artist whose practice operates between critical spatial theory, sound studies, and site-specific interventions in relation to the phenomenology of place and maintenance. 

Jools Gilson, Professor of Creative Practice said “Joshua’s work is distinctively interdisciplinary having trained in visual art, but working within sound installation, we’re looking forward to Joshua bringing his artistic research to the architecture of Cork Opera House.”

Dyson’s previous exhibitions include ‘GRAS Vernissage’ at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design’s Kafkárna in Prague (2023); ‘Graduate Show’ at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (2021); ‘Figure 6: Non-Linear Implosions’ at MEME in Athens (2020); and ‘I Might Be Staring At Infinity (Or The Backs Of My Own Eyelids)’ in Baku (2020)(Online). 

Dyson’s current research aims to develop a multichannel sound system that bridges  data, memory, cyclicality, and temporality. When composing sound for architectural spaces, Dyson draws from archival material to field recordings and contemporary testimonies, cultivating a layered cultural understanding of each site and its greater context. With multichannel sound, tactile materiality of structures guides speaker arrangements and functionality, allowing sound and architecture to engage interdependently, attuning the space to its unique acoustic sensibilities. His MRes research will explore responses to the unique spaces of Cork Opera House – work which will be shared on Culture Night in 2025.