Isotopica: The Resonance Series – Isotopica

On Isotopica this week, we meet Haoyue Chen a curator who moves like water.  Her practice drifts between shores: between the discipline of design and the freedom of art, between Ningbo and Hangzhou’’s Zhōngguóhuà traditions and the tidal coastlines of Britain.…

Artists Michael Curran and Ellis Parkinson in conversation.

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.

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

oday on Isotopica we are in conversation with co-founder of Extinction Rebellion Roger Hallam.

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…

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…….

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…

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

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.…

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…

Capitalism farms you and your children  

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…

: 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…

Isotopica’s second thoughts on Bowie

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  

International Miss Curation (algorithmic erotica) re generative musics and some glitched imagery ˈɪmɪdÊ’(É™)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…

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…

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…

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…