About
Aaron Dees is a researcher and multimedia artist based between Ireland and London. Working across visual, spatial and sonic media, he creates interconnected works that explore phenomena of the natural world, using computational tools and data as material.
Exhibitions / Awards
- 2025 How to Break a Broken Cistem, Group Exhibtion, PADA Gallery, Portugal.
- 2025 PADA 49 International Residency, Barreiro, Portugal.
- 2024 Research Residency, Ircam, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
- 2024 Hivernal, Group Exhibition, Roscommon Arts Centre, Ireland.
- 2024 Donegal Artist Bursary, Donegal County Council.
- 2023 In-formation, Solo Exhibition, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Ireland.
- 2023 Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland.
- 2023 LSC Exhibtion Residency, Manorhamilton, Ireland.
Workshops & Talks
- 2025 Generative Latent Spaces of Audio Textures, DAFx, Ancona, Italy.
- 2025 Audio Texture Synthesis Talk, Ircam, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
- 2025 Creative Coding Workshop, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Ireland.
- 2024 Data to Art Workshop, FABLAB & Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Ireland.
Research
Research Interests
- Computational Creativity
- Field recording and soundscape studies
- New technologies in Creative Arts.
- Digital Instrument Design
- Interactive systems for sound art and installation
PhD Project
I am currently a PhD candidate at TU Dublin, working at the intersection of field recording, generative synthesis, and digital instrument design. My research explores how the structures found within environmental audio can be used as generative sources for new sonic systems. Rather than treating recordings solely as sound material to be transformed, the research investigates how their temporal, spectral, and structural characteristics can inform generative processes that produce new and evolving sound. These ideas are realised through software-based instruments and sonic artworks, exploring new relationships between recorded environments, generative systems, and synthetic sound.
Early works made with the systems can be listened to here.
I am open to collaborations exploring these themes and related areas - please get in touch if you are interested in working together.