The scale of what’s happening has temporarily blown my fuses, and being painful aware of the need to get programming right and my unpreparedness for this…. I am broadcasting a stopgap program of beautiful sounds for brutal times
Category: Isotopica: The Resonance Series
Experimental radio, sonic detours, and cultural curiosity, with Simon Tyszko broadcast on Resonance FM, London’s most delicious Arts Radio Station
This week’s programme faces towards Gaza, the unspeakable, the unimaginable, but the reality of what’s happening day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute…. is unimaginable.
I present these remixed archive programs as imageless witness, in which our imaginations may fill in the ‘unimaginable’ forms. They comprise a series of live streams recorded from Gaza over the past several years, focusing on the sounds of armed…
An engaged post-human episode today, flowing naturally from our recent cross-species collaborations with Elo Masing and her avian friends, ‘Kakaduu,’ in Berlin. These explorations have deepened our sensitivity to the beings around us—how long we have lived in the dark!…
Lacuna, blank space, Silent void of the unknown, Whispers yet untold. I don’t care what the people might say, people might say I’m gonna keep all love, I love this way, love this wayI don’t care what the people might…
isotopica broadcast 30 July 2023 It’s going to be a happy year in Britain this year in the future. It’s going to be a happy year in Britain this year in the future. It’s going to be a happy year…
This week Simon Tyszko brings us an extended and captivating work in progress from Berlin based Estonian Composer Elo Masing, exploring post-human and cross-species themes, and commissioned for performance in Switzerland in the coming weeks. This preview has been remixed, attenuated,…
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…
exchange | ɪksˈtʃeɪndʒ, ɛksˈtʃeɪndʒ |noun1 an act of giving one thing and receiving another (especially of the same kind) in return: negotiations should lead to an exchange of land for peace | [mass noun] : opportunities for the exchange of…
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…
It’s now always a late 1970’s Sunday afternoon in the in the days of the contemporary Pest A mechanical timer prised from a discarded kitchen in a Bruxelles back street, provides an analogue rhythm around which we build today’s program. …
From lockdown we take a phantom stroll with Jimmy Fox, inspired by Walter Benjamin, who, drawing on the poetry of Baudelaire, made the Flâneur an emblematic archetype of the modern urban experience. The Flâneur of course evolved into the psychogeographer via Guy debord and his theory of the derive, to Iain Sinclair in twentieth century London, to the pandemic aetheric and haunted steps of Zigmund Freud’s great great grandson Jimmy Fox.
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).
From Chile to Chatham both haunted and alive.
Some field recordings and ambient sounds from summer 2019.
A zoom recorder balanced just below the pendulum of an ancient yet working grandfather clock in a central room of a venerable Kent House, picks up the steady yet illusory passage of time along with snippets of my extended (Small) family life and conversations.
We feature the story of a piano in Chile played by spirits, after stumbling across Julian*s* evocation of those very ghosts on an old detuned upright piano in an apparently lost bedroom, bringing us perhaps to consider the inner life and the meaning of an unprepared piano. after which
Peter Suchin riffs on the semiotics of image via Roland Barthes, and an endless vortex filling of a narrow boat water tank punctuates a summer day on the last pirate island of London (as far as we know), as the clock tic toc tic tocs us along to almost certain extinction, and we wonder how to, or even if to, make art, as time is undeniably running out.
*Julian Burger Visiting Professor at University of Essex, Human rights and indigenous law
A Radio impression of VOCALIS, an irregular performance event at the delicious Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall London.
VOCALIS places emphasis on giving voice in many forms; sharing ideas, drawing on collective memory and Beaconsfield’s long engagement with text, time-based/live art, performance and sound. Informal and open, Vocalis happens in Beaconsfield’s intimate cafe space – where food and fluids mix with electrical impulses and vocalised concepts.
99.7% scientific consensus 414 parts of CO2 per million, the highest in earths history. Once in a lifetime weather events every week. Mass extinction and loss of natural habitat happening now. Short term profits in place of life as we know it.
We are facing an unprecedented global emergency. Life on Earth is in crisis: scientists agree we have entered a period of abrupt climate breakdown, and we are in the midst of a mass extinction of our own making.
this is not a drill this is not a drill this is not a drill
A play on words Zoe Zarkovsi and Simon Tyszko engage in Word play or wordplay (also: play-on-words) being a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the…
Today’s program is a conversation and absolutely not a documentary… as the sheer longevity and variety of Anne’s practice utterly defies that within a 55 minute radio slot… We are in a walking conversation in annes recent exhibition in a…
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…
Ken Livingstone ……is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until…
The world feels like it’s spinning faster every day as we head towards such radical climate disruption that most everything as we know it will simply fall to pieces. Therefore I have simply not had the time to upload and…
we prepared a saucepan,and played it as a semi autonomous instrumentby lighting and adjusting the gas.we added a partial recording of a new text by jimmy fox (16 and a half)… we then added some wax cylinder recordings and other sound…
Subtitled Radio is an accompanying visual project to the Isotopica Radio series.
Originating from a study of Leni reifenstahl’s Fascist Epic ‘Olympia’, the first modern propaganda olympic games in 1936 Berlin, Tyszko rendered the films in reverse, whereby medals were returned, competitors un-achieved and by the end, everyone was equal.
Ingredients. An impending anniversary of revolution, one of the great films of the 20C, an assembled group of musicians, some professional, some not, a beautifully restored 150yr old cinema, a mastermind or two. Mix the ingredients without any rehearsal or…
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
dudley sutton and i converse live whilst raising funds for resonance fm dot com…… dudley imdb dudley wikipedia
a field recording of a moving event in bishops park fulham at a memorial for the local lives lost and the wider struggle of the international brigade in their historic fight against the facists in spain. the memorial was placed…
as britain heads towards the cultural cliff edge of the foul brexit, isotopica considers this fate with a kind of ‘carry on’ number stations edition…. early edison wax cylinders, field recordings and judiciously selected samples make up this edition, as well as…
another long slow one, a glimpse of an even longer pice in progress, filmic reference, field recordings, spectral effects, and moods…….
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…
my dark mood presents time stretched early music, ivor cutler, gina birch and a treacle thick drone, what’s not to like?
REVOLTING a collage of political spoken word collected from 1960’s radical cinema (heavily from jean luc goddard’s sounds of england), field recordings and attenuated recordings of installation at of wall mounted airflow instruments.
The “LionMan” is the earliest known work of figurative art, reliably dated to before 40,000 BCE, this mystery piece was fashioned from a mammoth tusk, and depicts a leonine head with a human mouth, atop a leonine body with human arms, standing…
2016 & very left wing At the end of 2016 isotopica find’s itself politically twisted, exhausted, and for virtually the first time ever, almost stunned into a radio silence.. As the banal and reactionary forces breaths a foul new life…
Isotopica today takes a detour around Radical Voices, an exhibition of radical literature in UCL’s Senate House library with artist in residence Orlando Harrison and secret guests, we also do a little secret urban exploring via tiny book lifts around…
today we are featuring GOLDEN DARK which….. was born out of the serendipitous meeting of two musical dyslexics – Elo Masing and David John Hull – who had been feeling their way through seemingly radically different musical traditions: psychedelic folk…
Martin Stone born 11 December 1946, died November the 7th 2016 at home in his apartment in Versailles on the outskirts of Paris. He died quietly in his sleep after a year long fight against cancer and was cared for by…
a post reality episode including poetry, abortion, god & it’s patriarchy, references to st tropez and more
David Ellis and Simon Tyszko groan and moan about the utter banality & sheer absurdity of brexit ad nauseam and infinitum… they try not to swear
who am eye. Post unnecessary plebiscite, handed down to the uk by simply the most arrogant and incompetent prime minister we have ever experienced, this silly little island is in search of an identity….. like an early teenager trying on new…
eye sea Personally, i find the whole notion of engerlund (as it is now to be known) leaving the eu to be both absurdist and obscene.a political car crash so obvious in the making yet one this little land has…
cunt It’s a perfectly nice little word, a word with 800 years of history; a word used by Chaucer and by Shakespeare. Semantically, it serves the same function as “dick” or “prick” – a signifier…
Isotopica today is in conversation with Zelda Cheatle, Photographer, Curator, Academic and the woman who influenced and oversaw the rise of Fine Art photography thru her time at the Photographers gallery and her own eponymous Gallery. A fine time was…
Pour le Europa A Raga with Love speechless after the insane and dirty vote to leave the european union i can only play a beautiful indian raga and cry my elite urban tears into my multicultural tea in my world…
today on isotopica we speak with Thaddaeus Ropac,owner and director of the eponymous european galleries….. we converse and let our toes skim the surface of what is a deep mystery to many contemporary artists….. the art market and the gallery system..…
Mr David Ellis & Mr Simon Tyszko continue their random journeys thru the strange ephemera of empire past….. Today in the i ha
Pour le Europa A Raga with Love r yes, i am part of the urban elite… i like experts, i love reason, i cherish civilisation, and socialism, and countries without borders, i loath the state of this interesting yet marginal country,…
electro shock in the age of stupid a Hadean Eon (formally known as pre cambrian) Eoarchean Paleoarchean Mesoarchean Neoarchean Mesoproterozoic Neoproterozoic Paleozoic Mesozoic Cenozoic Subatlantic Subboreal, Atlantic, Boreal, Preboreal, which is subdivided into Holocene Anthropogeny and finally…… Homo-amathês = the…
Nahum Mantra in conversation with Simon Tyszko about his time at CERN, some hypnosis and the measurement of forever……
This is not what I said…. Okay well I’m in kind of taking us back to Hyde Ashbury when I remember we were there and comparing it to now here we are in Lake Central London and dislikes his neoliberal still.…
An Episode about Nothing, absolutely Nothing Featuring egg alan lomax haitian field recordings charles bukowski clapTON ensemble simon tyszko north end road fulham field recordings Basil Kirchin – Heart Of The North On A Clear Day – The Tony Hatch…
Asymmetrical MonoLocution Is a new and experimental process where we attempt to re(create) meanings from just one side of a complex conversation, and in this instance one spoken in a second language. Dr Lucilee Bach (Sorbonne Paris), is engaged in…
Peter Tatchell is a delightful and seemingly ever present (at least within my political consciousness) human rights campaigner, originally from Australia, best known for his work with LGBT social movements. a genuinely frontline campaigner for a fairer world, peter has twice attempted a…
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…
: An Autotuned Political Re-Education Q. Miss Heart, may we assume that the tape recorded message which you referred to earlier in your testimony was recorded a day or two before it was discovered on April 24th, of 1974, to…
Isotopica is today in conversation with the wonderfully named Nahum Mantra a composer, multi instrumentalist, and Artist, who also coordinates the technical committee for the cultural and artistic utilisations of space (ITACCUS) at the International Astronautical Federation in Paris. Nahum…
The “body without organs” (French: corps sans organes) is a concept used by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. It usually refers to the deeper reality underlying some well-formed whole constructed from fully functioning parts. At the same time, it may also…
Despite soaking our main studio microphone in the cat water overnight, Isotopica steams ahead, with a cut and paste commentary, a water themed edition, ships horns, ocean currents, Suicide live and some vintage ether….
Masqualero [alternate take] miles davis Burlington hacker farm Squash 1 Person Rec On Court Je suis parti sur un de ces bateaux Table Tennis Amateurs Playing Cancer charles bukowski Roulette Wheel Spinning Small Ball Dada For Now Russolo Dada For…
Les psaumes sont écrits sur les magnétophonesLes chorus ont un nègre à chaque mélopéeLes bouches font des langues sept fois retournéesMiserere Seigneur du fond des microphones La nature d’acier pousse des fleurs chroméesLe juste en Cadillac s’encense du cigareLe courrier…
International Miss Curation (algorithmic erotica) re generative musics and some glitched imagery ˈɪmɪdʒ(ə)ri noun 1. visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. “Tennyson uses imagery to create a lyrical emotion” 2. visual images collectively. “the impact of…
basically dudley sutton and simon tyszko natter around dudley’s adventures in new york in the early sixties, discuss his starring role in entertaining mr sloane and his subsequnt friendship with joe orton. dudley performs some of his new poems, and…
Isotopica – 8th December 2015 by Resonance Fm on Mixcloud Sprachregelung is a German language term meaning “convention of speech”. It refers to a formal or informal agreement, or order, that certain things should be expressed in specific ways in…
Rough Notes contact me twitter @simontyszko Simeon ten Holt (24 January 1923 – 25 November 2012) was a Dutch contemporary classical composer. Éliane Radigue (born January 24, 1932) is a French electronic music composer. She began working in the 1950s…
So First We loose Lemmy…… 2016 has turned into the year of the cultural cark, although Lemmily is but a footnote compared to David Bowie.. So here are some of the accompanying tyszko phases to watch along with the episode
Rough Episode notes….. lemmy, fruit machines, hawkwind, lsd, my first heroin overdose, post bomber tour christmas party after hammersmith odeon gig (1980?) hauntology points to brazil being possibly the last film ever made, even featuring Scarfolk style posters including ‘ we are all in this…
a gentle reflection after the horrific events in paris on friday the 13 2015 featuring lucilee, ivor cutler, and humphrey bogart… “Tous les ans, vous fêtez les mêmes fêtes, les mêmes anniversaires ; tous les ans, nous en sommes au…
An gentle and informal conversation with James Lingwood, co-director (along with Michael Morris) of ArtAngel, almost certainly the commissioning body responsible for some of the most interesting art projects we have seen in the past 20 plus years… An article in The Daily Telegraph described…
Hoorah to Greece OXI OXI OXI do drugs cloud our judgement? Is science a big fake? obviously not, but just try asking some of your friends on drugs (even tho science provides some of the most delux drugs) Ken kesey…
a funny thing happened to me on the way to the studio i had the results of my second opinion hearing tests today (NHS vrs boots) and it seems it’s true….. Way back in the late 90’s when i first…
today is a preview of some work being prepared for a performance at the beaconsfield 20th birthday event on thus day evening, it’s a flow drawing thoughts towards the modernism of the 20th century and one that we must reclaim…
isotopica today considers data, the glitch, the algorithm, the random, the boolean. in the age of increasingly total data the simple yes or no can take us on a journey way beyond. Perhaps the fictional biblical arc was actually an accurate…
We Start with Das Original Oberkreuzberger Nasenflötenorchester, segue thru to the delightful Professor Edzard Ernst, World leader in evidence based research into Alt-Med treatments……out into an Estonian field recording from Elo Masing, into an attenuated and space echoed flute in…
Today we relax, or sink, or wallow, in the glorious darkness of Bohren & der Club of Gore, (self described as an “unholy ambient mixture of slow jazz ballads, Black Sabbath doom and down tuned Autopsy sounds) an unusual almost…
In conversation with the rather wonderful and total obscurantist Mr David Ellis…… Friend, collaborator, inspiration, & mystery, mostly mystery….more text to follow Tribute to Jonas Mekas on his 90th birthday: from Serpentine Galleries London David Ellis and Simon Tyszko, “Detour”,…
Isotopica today treats with good friend and (official) national treasure Dudley Sutton, to mark the end of his lino cut illustrated poem exhibition at the Chelsea Arts club. We talk of his 1960’s adventures in New york with Joan Littlewood,…
As an artist I have, over the years attended my fair share of openings and events, a see and be seen, inhaling the rarified airs and experiencing the frisson and glamour of the big game in art. I have sold work, and…
UN’s François Crépeau on the refugee crisis: ‘Instead of resisting migration, let’s organise it. A more Humane world view than neo liberal media would allow… read on [ ] shortcode
A contemporary mystery, sub-judice, too hot to handle, unrepeatable.. yes, it’s Isotopica investigative reporting at it’s very best and most oblique…….
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In the week of the Murders in Paris, starting at the offices of satirical Magazine Charlie Hebdoo, Isotoptica considers, with an etherial broadcast, the issues of contemporary free speech, an absolute hypocrisy , insane illiberalism, and the complex meta politics…
A conversation with arch adventurer David Ellis is followed by an algorithmically generated chromatic scale composition. Gentle
You know that moment when you meet someone at the ICA and then find yourself a special guest of an Eastern European Hells Angels chapter as part of an obscure performance art work? Yes, that moment. Today’s guest is uncategorizable…
A grizzled and dystopian Seasonal Serving bah humbug christmas is so unsocial Isotopica strongly suggests you join us for our 100% guaranteed jaded, Nihilist Christmas special. We will attempt a seance, bringing carols and christmas chills from ‘The Other Side’ and…
Isotopica today is a series of compositional performance, plumbing lessons, plumbing lessons that become performance, and collaborations with and excerpts from performances of The Clapton Ensemble. Please do not attempt any of this at home without a doctorate level composer…
restless adjective 1 …. was restless, moving uneasily about the hut: uneasy, ill at ease, restive, fidgety, edgy, on edge, tense, worked up, nervous, agitated, anxious, on tenterhooks, keyed up, apprehensive, unquiet, impatient; Brit. nervy; informal jumpy, jittery, twitchy, uptight, wired,…
Resonance Soundhub contributor, Elo Masing, performs an original composition with simon tyszko, for non traditional instrumentation under an aeroplane wing in west London, followed by a soundscaped existential report from the paris FIAC art fair with contributing editor Jimmy Fox…
An admittedly scatty episode with our fabulous architecture correspondent Herbert Wright, that somehow left Herbert feeling ‘mortified’ by the superficiality of my conversational style or somesuch, yet we cover lots of ground, spin to the left and end up right as…
In a thought experiment, today we listen to some of our earlier Gaza Live streams backwards, we hear heartfelt yet well scripted reports from the earliest days of the NHS, and hopefully, as the best of art should help us…
What do you get when you place a 5.5 ft rabbit (marina sossi) in a 54 year old light aircraft with a famous photographer turned academic (spencer rowell), a maverick artist and broadcaster (simon tyszko), fly it up to 48,…
DATELINE ICELAND Pirates have proposed a congressional statement, directing the Welfare Minister to implement a guaranteed minimum income, what in recent years has also gone under the name of universal basic income or citizen wage. More precisely, the proposal, made…
From the perfume palaces of Persia, through Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, to the anarchist squats of 70’s london, soundtracked to Hawkwind’s Silver Machine: The joss stick has left it’s lingering aroma, and indelibly marked the memory of this…
Episode one investigate an abandoned southern italian mountain village and investigates the possibility of a new artistic colony twinned with West London. set to an algorithmically generated sequences of bleeps and echo’s programmed in a major pentatonic scale, we combine…
Isotopica returns for another critical and cultured season of gently curated sonic detours every Tuesday between 3-4 pm on london dials 104.4fm and www.resonancefm.com streaming. Episode one on the 16th September, investigate an abandoned Southern Italian mountain village and investigates…
In this episode we start out with a clip from Miloš Forman‘s Taking Off, then segue into further re broadcasts of Jahed and Rita Saftawi’s inspiring, horrific yet compelling live feeds from Gaza. We Talk with Icelandic MP and activist…
where to begin with so much coverage, so many horrific images available, and so little effective action.. gaza under attack, a contemporary holocaust, an ethnic cleasing, history… Live stream originally provided by Jehad Saftawi, a photojounalist living with his wife…
Are you a humanist? find out here i simply ask as this episode is a humanist episode. there is no god, this is it, our life, short, sweet and very very finite. we are indeed star dust, so lets be…
Tuesday’s Isotopica features the delightful and loquacious Jean Wainwright (of audio arts fame), talking about all things nautical, from the missing, pretend ‘round the world captain Donald Crowhurst to her family on the Titanic. All of this focused on her…
Isotopica will be broadcasting (a)live every tuesday afternoon between From 20 may To 20 June for a fabulous re-sounding of the UK’s largest ever audio loudspeaker. From 20 May 2014, a full-size reconstruction of the gigantic ‘Denman horn’ will be…
In Conversation with Gerard Melanga and Dr Jean wainwright Gerard Joseph Malanga (born March 20, 1943) is an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, curator and archivist. Andy Warhol and The Factory Gerard Malanga worked closely with Warhol during that artist’s most…
Lancaster Court tenants and residents association (TRA) were invited for a lovely day out by our new best friends Fulham Palace Gardens , the delicious and reinvigorated slice of green that used to house the London Bishops. It’s an amazing…
Can you hear that deafening sound echoing through London? It’s the sound of the goodness and the joy being sucked out of our lives and our social fabric by the Neo-Liberal free market. Therefor this week, isotopica gets to meet…
Communist Party Manifesto in Morse Code I believe we have finally satisfied a glaring gap in the great free market, a fully listenable, full rendering of the Communist Party Manifesto in Morse Code, please share this, and then sit back,…
The Isotopica studio during our seance, channeling the magnificent Delia Derbyshire who helps us to understand THERE IS NO GOD, phew! Recording today’s episode required more than the usual studio set up Delia Derbyshire could spot the individual instruments in…
AUCTION ACTION AUCTION ACTION AUCTION ACTION AUCTION ACTION AUCTION The first ever live and utterly made up on the spot ISOTOPICA featuring Marina Sossi Mystic Yogi, fundraising, faith healing, and setting this troubled world to rights with Simon Tyszko for…
Free of One’s Melancholy Self Often prescribed to nervous housewives, a quaalude was something between a sleeping pill and a sedative. First synthesized in the late fifties, by 1965 ’ludes were being manufactured by William H. Rorer Inc., a Pennsylvania…
This week the third marlboro man dies of smoking related disease, therefore we listen to unrelated euphonics and a malboro advert Poly Styrene joins us for a very youthful chat
Welcome to Foul Britannia a country of happy turkeys working hard for a happy Christmas Things couldn’t be better for the Happy couple above, their class has stolen trillion of pounds of public money, while the public from whose pockets…
THe first in the all new 2014 season of isotopica begins with a delicious sample of Richard Burton as Leon Trotsky, the relevance of which, hopefully never quite becomes clear. This was taken from a sadly badly made 1972 film…
The Elegant Art of Falling Apart Suicide (the band) UnFunFair Part too at Beaconsfield gallery FIRST Special guest Jessica Jones tells us about the transformation of her Cancer diagnosis and relationship breakup, into a blog, a book, and now world wide…
ATOMS A Sonic Journey With Terrence Mckenna (Just what did i do to his already unusual voice?) set to a delightful raga By Shiv Kumar Sharma entitled Charukeshi make of it what you will (as ever) below are details of…
Isotopica at 3pm – Dance For Radio June 25th, 2013 · Isotopica at 3pm is a series of cultural sonic detours with artist Simon Tyszko. Today: Dance For Radio. Isotopica considers the body in the context of contemporary dance and…
Todays detour starts at the setting up of the unfunfair at beaconsfield gallery in lambeth, an intervention in the large arch space, a test bed, and a quick show of this years studio works [field name=bframe] Franz Anton Mesmer (May…
episodes above are 1 the visit to phlight 2 the trip to leeds CHANCE: A THROW OF THE DICE Leeds MA Art and Design have worked with the artist and broadcaster Simon Tyszko. His practice is an example of how spoken…
What a treat for me……. Isotopica at 3pm – Stuart Brisley, Godfather of British Performance Art May 7th, 2013 Cultural sonic detours with artist Simon Tyszko in Isotopica at 3pm. Today: the eternal and subversive Godfather of British Performance Art,…
‘We wanted to provide an alternative to the universal formula of mainstream broadcasting,’ says Ed Baxter, one of Resonance’s founders, ‘a laboratory for wild experimentation that’s available to the widest possible range of practitioners, no matter who they are.…
At 3pm in Istopica, artist Simon Tyszko considers madness, using interviews, field recordings and sonic collage in a programme which promises to be very dark. Note: some listeners may find the graphic descriptions of the hazards of drug usage disturbing.…
the foulest legacy Born: October 13, 1925, Grantham Died: April 8, 2013, London t he solution After neoliberalism: analysing the present Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin The founding editors of Soundings set out the framing analysis for our…
This weeks Isotopica features a wide ranging and difficult to edit (so much wonderful material) discussion with kinetic/science art/multidisciplinary artist Liliane Lijn. American born, of Russian diaspora parentage Lijn, studied archaeology at the Sorbonne and Art History at the Ecole du Louvre, in Paris. At the…
Once again again the nineteen sixties radiates out from way back when, to mysteriously move things around in my present day. speaking with heather jansch for the first time since 1966 when she was the number one girlfiend in the…
A Fine treat with friend and comrade in (artistic) arms Mr Bob Kingdom. Bob is the one man show, he conceives, he researches, he writes, he presents and performs, holding the stage in an intense and intimate audience with his…
A private view, some public thoughts, in joe strummer underpass ‘it’s so right’ or did he say bright? i was there, i worked as a roady with the clash, small fry, i sold drugs to topper, i once overdosed on…
Relationships, causality, isotopes, Psychoanalysis playlist in incorrect order i) Alap ii) Jorh iii) Jhalla im in love with a german film star the passions Architecture of Loss Valgeir Sigurdsson Angels And Demons At Play Sun Ra Another Time, Another Place…
In Isotopica, as in my wider art practice, i work with and try and reveal a little of the deeply personal in a way that i hope is universal….. it’s not all about me, oh no! Today we start with…
An early morning stroll thought the markets of Paris with antiquarian Book dealer, Rock star, and all round Fine Egg Martin Stone and friends. Martin buys an Elizabethan Manuscript and Adam buys some 1970’s French Men’s magazines, which although there are…
In this the Fund Raising Edition of Isotopica, we feature some delicious Soviet Era advertising from the creative association “Reklamfilm Estonian / Eesti reklaamfilm”. Along With an extended loop of BBC RadioPhonic Workshop Pioneer Delhia Derbyshire
The Dead Dead Month of Feburary. i should be on a beach, yet i am busy with WHAT? Being filmed by BBC directors training program then off to paris in search of the fabled martin stone, so this episode has…
The dead months of the new year can just disappear under grey skies or can be a magical time for travel or sleep. Either way this episode of isotopica takes elements of both to weave a seasonal sonic detour. playlist…
Lost in the archives, as was much of the Seventies, Eighties and through an inverse process (therapy) the Nineties, today’s episode is a simple conceit, as are these Images, especially made for radio during the recording of the show Images…
Don’t spend all your art’s council money on a new apple computer, when you can simply build your own far more powerful hackintosh! Using the collective power of the hive mind and communal hacking it’s as simple as asking the…
Isotopica will be broadcasting a suitably ironic and depressing* Christmas edition to reflect Tyszko’s appalling and tragic year, which managed to combine the loss of a 25 year loving yet enmeshed and codependent relationship to a pair of test tube…
Todays Isotopica is a meditation on ritual, performance and obsession. The fetish of addiction, and the perfect commodity of heroin, are obliquely and amusingly explored in this series of takes and retakes from a recording session for a performance on…
Is an extended minimalist mediation on the nature of class, revolution, and the creation of the perfect Martini, in which master film maker Luis Buñuel’s magnificent musings on the perfect recipe for this classic cocktail, conflates the vitally judged addition of…
Paul Buck, Writer and Artist joins Isotopica to discuss his new book on era defining film ‘Performance‘. Tyszko and Buck detour through marijuana and incense clouded London 60’s countercultural themes from Jorge Luis Borges, the international glamor of Anita Pallenberg…
This week’s Isotopica considers the line, and discusses such with Rootstein Hopkins Research Chair of Drawing at the University of the Arts London, Professor Stephen Farthing. Points are joined from the Ancient Egyptians through, Braque and Duchamp all the way…
This week’s Isotopica features the return of our roving architecture correspondent and blueprint magazine contributing editor, Herbert Wright. Herbert tries to get a sensible word in, and does an admirable job, despite tyszko’s fixation on Portuguese culinary custard We discuss,…
As a counterpoint to my determination to stay in my bed with advanced and dramatic Ennui, isotopica today features some of my previous field recordings from a home away from home, and a monkey Temple in Jaipur, an Indian language…
David Ellis and Tyszko, stroll around the labyrinthine shelves of the Getty Picture Library, where countless millions of prints, negatives, glass plates and every conceivable form of photographic image are stored and documented. At some point we find a trunk…
In todays isotopica we have a very brief frieze special from under a duvet in West London and we also ask you to consider the concept of Hauntology as recently described online by renaissance man Mark Pilkington and academically introduced at various points…
Serial Digressionist David Ellis Invites Simon Tyszko for an out of hours stroll and chat, through The Wellcome Library which is founded on the collection formed by Sir Henry Wellcome (1853–1936), whose personal wealth allowed him to create one of…
Isotopica Sutton On this weeks isotopic detour, amongst the irregular sounds and samples, tyszko is in conversation with national treasure, actor Dudley sutton. during this chat sutton reads through an excerpt of peter handke’s self accuse. a classic piece of…
Stage Legend Dudley Sutton talks us through the politics and the joys of face paint and footlights circa 1957, we travel to Russia on a train, spit fish scales on the floor of a workers bar and learn the truer…
Dudley Sutton, Joan Littlewood, The Soviet Union, Sheffield, The Committee, Dr Chicago all mixed together, like a family, it’s isotopica
Starting off this week with The barrow poets and their delightful ‘yellowfingered Girl’, We listen to a classic recipe in the old style of the BBC for producing quality Heroin, Listen to some field recordings of one of my recent…
Hanging somewhere between life and death, the ICU episode is perhaps a simple countdown, a meditation, or an outright provocation?
The first in the autumn season of isotopica brings a celebration of britain’s little known visits and continued communications with Mars through our special envoy George King, we investigate the haunting sounds of slowed down bird song and natter a…
in this episode we get really black and white cool cool jazz with some ‘train and others, and i get to speak with an exotic dancer called cecile who came to visit the phlight project
this is how we get a nice old clipping framed by Heidi, we have words with foundations from Our Lovely Architecture Correspondent Herbert Wright, there are some 78’s and more……..
A Beautiful project set in the utopian Really Free School , in a squatted central London Pub, where a delicious old school orange plastic portable typewriter was the locus for a communal writing project. one 20 minute slot followed another…
We launch with some classic black and white style jazz, so cool, experimental and avante guard sound, hear james joyce, an anarchist text, the residents, chanting revolutionaries, a story from the black panthers, a seance, a rare and original tysko…
Featuring Harry Houdin’s wife and Alva Alto and and and Houdini was the most famous escape artist of all time. But was he able to escape Death? If anyone could return from The Other Side, it certainly would have been…
A Single detour this week with a mash up of a dramatized performance of the Badder meinhof Trials, with a 59.02 minute (post) Krautrock classic by Ash Ra Tempel founder Manuel Göttsching
This is the episode that starts off in a delicious amateurism with The Portsmouth Sinfonia, I then ask you to consider what would the world be like if Mick Jagger were french, with a Gallic turner from the classic 60’s…
An Excerpt from a 15 hour performance by the obscure, Dangerous and Influential Austrian (stateless?) Artist Otto Leipzig
This is the episode in which the computer crashed and i threw something together at the last moment. never the less, it’s isotopica
This is the episode that hovers in the deliciously seedy depths of sixties strip-club culture with the first screen appearance of NICO (velvet under ground etc etc ) with music by Serge Gainsbourg and style beyond in the 1963 French…
Episode one Starts off with a discussion of class and privilege with Pippa and Stewart Small somewhere in the Cotswolds, We then veer off at right angles with Wim Wenders to the libraries of Berlin then neatly land somewhere in…
This week a single track by… La MontyYoung is generally recognized as the first minimalist composer.[1] His works have been included among the most important and radical post-World War II avant-garde, experimental, and contemporary music.[according to whom?] Young is especially…
This week we row both up and down the Thames from Brentford to Richmond, or there abouts. We are piloted by John Kenton a lovely old river rat, very long time friend and 50 plus year long resident of the…
Simon in a gentle conversation with Tim Etchells In there own words We are a group of six artists. We started working together in 1984 and in the many projects we’ve created we’ve tried to explore what theatre and performance…