Continuing our cross species experimentation (with Elo Masing in Berlin), we present today a new composition by Simon Tyszko specifically made for, and with the help of, other kinds of people. We start with the sublime Leo Ferré song “L’étoile…
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episode near the top of the class, yet in a classless society, who is judging?
This week Simon Tyszko (again) channels Mark Fisher and Jacques Derrida, within a composition of texture and spectrality of (Vinyl) Surface Noise, and extended through copious echos.Our working title……….: Spectral Snap, Crackle, Pop, and Echo. Simon Tyszko this week takes Isotopica further into the mysteries…
The Train Rolls On. Chris Marker’s Le Train En Marche (1971) First the eye, then the cinema, which prints the look…. A stunned episodepost tory election landslide,in which we listen simultaneously,to both the French and English soundtracks,of Chris Marker’sLe Train…
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Isotopica this week was recorded just three days ago (27th. May 2022) in a (secret) Berlin park. Simon Tyszko was in conversation with comPoser Elo Masing, accompanied by some songs from Berlin’s legendary visiting nightingales, in this walking field recording.
In this episode we meet death and death falls in love with us, and despite her parent’s plans Grazia also falls for Death, and Death falls for Grazia, her fiancé get’s confused and perhaps we find ourselves in a love…
The song Mr Dante Fontanna, comes from the 1966 film Fumo Di Londra a vehicle for Alberto Sordi and was composed by Piero Piccioni who was in turn pianist, organist, conductor, composer, and architect, he was also the prolific author of more…
Performed by humans, Produced by birds.
An international phone conversation, London to Berlin, with Elo Masing representing Berlin based WIG (improvisational trio), and Simon Tyszko in London, discussing the world’s first musical transcription produced by birds,
Music For Birds by WIG, and It’s genesis within the glamorous and rarefied world of cross species art with avian tandem Kakaduu.Agapornis Fischeri, better known by the artist name Kakaduu, is originally from Central Africa and now based in Berlin, Germany. They established themselves as artists in London, UK, where they lived from 2010 to 2015.
“As part of the UCL psychedelic research team, Iv’e been legally administered LSD, Psilocybin, DMT, ketamine, and MDMA in the past ten years ” (by Professor David Nutt no less).
This particular episode revolves around a trip to the vet with Idoru the cat, during which we share a delightful conversation around topics of the day. Our cycling conversation perfectly sets the scene for a program approaching the cutting edges…
Dartmouth professor and astrophysicist Stephon Alexander describes his jazz epiphany as occasioned by a complex diagram Coltrane gave legendary jazz musician and University of Massachusetts professor Yusef Lateef in 1967. “I thought the diagram was related to another and seemingly…
mind control through sound… beta and gamma radiation…. a radioactive thunderstorm… past life regression…. and much much more on isotopica…. like wow!
simon tyszko in conversation with dudley sutton, in which dudley tells us about his experience of the english middle class, censorship and the queen
sometimes a piece of music just grabs the moment and right now for me it is la vie moderne by Léo Ferré,who was a French-born Monégasque poet and composer, and a dynamic and controversial live performer, whose career in France…
Ultra high frequency (UHF) the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 MHz and 3 GHz, also known as the band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one. UHF television broadcasting is the use of…