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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

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.

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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, affected, and finally reassembled by Isotopica especially for Resonance 104.4fm.

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 of recent experimentations, examining and pushing the boundaries of what we might consider a contemporary and avant-garde approach to dub, bringing together recordings of radio static and tuning artefacts with extended echoes, creating a unique sonic space almost free of expected gravity, both weightless, and timeless...... and with a cherry somewhere on the top. .I hope you'll enjoy an experiment which is a composition created entirely with the snap, the crackle and the pop from vinyl recordings, from the early trip artists, trip hop artists, and the hauntologists who swarm around Mark Fisher and Jacques Derrida. Vinyl Crackle underpins much of that. And this last week was a programme about Transylvanian dub in which I went on to actually play a whole series of records, which is very unusual for Isotopica. I thought I would take it in a entirely different direction, which today is just the echo because an awful lot of this snap, crackle and the pop will be fed through very extended digital delays.Are you ready for this? I hope so. Oviously there's an academic content, having already mentioned Derrida, we've mentioned Mark Fisher, and the list simply goes on and on. So why don't we just sit back, perhaps put our feet up, perhaps not, and see if we enjoy today's edition of snap, crackle and pop here on Isotopica with me, Simon Tyszko. I'll probably share another word with you all after this. Creative review sonic award winning dub plate installation via Tomato/Underworld

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. Elo Masing and Vincent ************* performing a graphical score by Vincent, at a gallery event not from from Karl-Marx-Allee

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 hexagon.... or some other equally complex shape. Death plays Jenga with a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) in Bergman's classic The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet)

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 animals (apart from the usual Homo sapiens suspects, plus the usual conversation and cultural fillers that so define ISOTOPICA.

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 information. I have always held a fascination for the sheer magic of telephony, with the transmission of disembodied voices across unimaginable distance, combining a direct intimacy with a paradoxical anonymity, a voice speaking directly into ones ear as if relating secrets, with magical powers to connect us across great distances. I would describe this as magic in it's purest form, the transformation of base materials into new forms using the ritualised methods of science

ISOTOPICA 12-04-2020 a step by step glide through psychogeography Jimmy Lux whose feet we listen to in this broadcast, on a shared derive en Paris avec moi a classic psychogeographer Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals." It has also been defined as "a total dissolution of boundaries between art and life 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 In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there… But the dérive includes both this letting go and its necessary contradiction: the domination of psychogeographical variations by the knowledge and calculation of their possibilities. Iain Sinclair Peter Ackroyd Patrick Keiller. Walter Benjamin,  J. G. Ballard,  Nicholas Hawksmoor. Will self Thomas de Quincey. 

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.  Camus provides some words, we tune in to some intercultural networked improvised music from The Ethernet Orchestra, sample a new livestream sound work from Matthew Olden, and all as we gently muse on our world spun upside down on an unfamiliar axis. 7-8PM UTC+01:00 resonancefm.com Ethernet Orchestra  is an Internet-based musical ensemble that explores intercultural improvisation through musical performances in located venues and on the web. Founded by trumpeter Roger Mills, the ensemble was formed to address the underrepresentation of the diverse musical cultures in online music making.  The group combines electronic and traditional instruments, including Mongolian moron khuur (horse fiddle) and throat singing, tabla,  Persian tanbur, tar, balaban, and the Japanese shakuhachi, blended with Buchla synthesizer, DX7, Ableton, voice, guitar, trumpet, and sax.  Oceans between Sound is the second album by Ethernet Orchestra and covers a 4 year period of the groups performances and online jam sessions. It is free to download with artwork and CDR disc prints from the Chilean net label Pueblo Nuevo https://pueblonuevo.cl/catalogo/oceans-between-sound/

The Train Rolls On Chris Marker 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 En Marche,in an attemptperhaps,to revisit,and evenfind a route back to,the utopiandreamsand projectsof both early and latetwentieth century cultural marxism. …the train of revolution, the train of history has not lacked reverse signals and switched points but the biggest mistake one could make was to believe that it had come to a halt. “If Chris asked you to do something you did it: There was no question”, recalls Marc Karlin in one of his last interviews before his death in 1999. ‘Chris’, needless to say, was Chris Marker, Karlin’s friend who he called ‘le maitre’. The task was to provide an English version of Marker’s recent film Le train en marche (1971) – a celebration of the Soviet era filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin and his mythical ‘kino-poezd’ – a ‘cine train’ re-fitted with cameras, editing tables and processing labs, that travelled the breadth of Russia to make films for and with the workers. Films made on the spot, in collaboration with the local people, (workers in factories, peasants in kolhozs), shot in one, day, processed during the night, edited the following day and screened in front of the very people who had participated to its making… Contrarily to the agit-prop trains which carried official propaganda from the studios to the people, here the people was his own studio. And at the very moment bureaucracy was spreading all over, a film unit could go and produce uncensored material around the country. And it lasted one year (1932)!Medvedkin saw his kino-poezd (294 days on the rails, 24,565m of film projected, 1000km covered) as a means of revolutionising the consciousness of the Soviet Union’s rural dwellers. Marker hoped his recent unearthing would incite similar democratic film-making. In tribute, Karlin and other kindred spirits in London joined Cinema Action.” There was a relationship to the Russians. Vertoz, the man and the movie camera, Medvedkin, and his agitprop Russian train; the idea of celebrating life and revolution on film, and communicating that. Medvedkin had done that by train. SLON and Cinema Action both did it by car. Getting a projector, putting films in the boot, and off you went and showed films – which we did”. The people were brought the filmmaker’s cinema, in the same way they were brought the artist’s art and the expert’s science. But in the case of this train the cinema was to become something created with contact through the people and was to stimulate them to make their own intervention.

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. They have been active in the visual arts since 2010 and first gained recognition with the wood veneer and cardboard sculpture “Me and My Home”. Other well-known works include “My Cage” and “My Nightmares About the Cat”. Kakaduu is one of the most remarkable contemporary practitioners of environmental art in Europe, choosing to use mostly recycled material in creating artworks. They prefer figurative wood sculpture, although often also paint on different materials. Favourite media include wood, wood veneer, cardboard, and coconut shell; for painting they use recycled food. Better known paintings from the mature period include “Kakaduu Shit on Canvas”, “Kakaduu Shit on Glass”, “Kakaduu Shit on Veneer”, “Kakaduu Shit on Cupboard Door”, “Kakaduu Shit on Porcelain”, “Kakaduu Shit on A4” and “Kakaduu Shit on DVD”. Well-known artworks from the most recent output include “London”, “The Dwarf’s House on the Hill”, “We Went to See the Elephant” and “The Squirrel, the Cat and the Hare”. Kakaduu’s works have been shown at The First and Second International World Exhibition of Artist Birds. Kakaduu is represented by Gallery Zebra&Tiger. New website in progress at www.kakaduu.art. Watch this space!Scientists claim that birds’ and animals’ brains cannot discern complex intellectual objects such as music. ‘ ‘ ‘ , That for them, human music is like white noise, similar to the sound of rain, waves or rustling leaves for us. That they can’t hear anything interesting in it, the same way we can’t understand what birds say to each other, all their adventures and other information they share so vividly. ,             ////7 O>’ O>’ O

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 family life and conversations. We feature the story of a piano in Chile played by spirits, after stumbling across Julian*s evocation of those ghosts on an old detuned upright in a lost bedroom, bringing us perhaps to consider the psychogeography of an unprepared piano. 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. One way in to the old kent house 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 family life and conversations. We feature the story of a piano in Chile played by spirits, after stumbling across Julian*s evocation of those ghosts on an old detuned upright in a lost bedroom, bringing us perhaps to consider the psychogeography of an unprepared piano. 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.    Peter Suchin Explain Art To A Live Cat 2019     *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. Michael Curran MC   Jeroen van Dooren explores divided subjectivities in the company of performing rabbits Jefford Horrigan performs a very personal ritual within a bespoke sculptural assemblage that is jealous of painting Tara Fatehi Irani mishandles an archive from Tehran through photographic images, dance, spoken word and digital media Liming Lin aspires to be a symbol – that everyone looks up to Niamh Roberts delivers a love story especially penned for Vocalis.

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 https://rebellion.earth Worldwide Rebellion: Continues 7 October 2019 Rebellion too07 October 201919:00 (UTC +01:00)-Until:18 October 201922:00

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 purpose of intended effect or amusement. Examples of word play include puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, double entendres, and telling character names (such as in the play The Importance of Being Earnest, Ernest being a given name that sounds exactly like the adjective earnest). Word play is quite common in oral cultures as a method of reinforcing meaning. Examples of text-based (orthographic) word play are found in languages with or without alphabet-based scripts; for example, see homophoerate our accompanying nic puns in Mandarin Chinese. Deleuze and food, time and chance, combine with a collection of pure data patches that algorithmically generate our accompanying soundtrack, the hidden hand of a god who simply never existed. Le menu est la liste des divers mets qui composent le repas. Dans un restaurant, ou à la cantine, c'est l'ensemble des mets qui peuvent être servis pour un prix déterminé. Par métonymie, le menu est le feuillet, le carton, le tableau, l'affichette, l’objet ou la brochure qui liste : les mets servis lors d'un repas : manuscrit ou imprimé, illustré ou non, il présente au convive la liste des mets et boissons qui vont lui être servis lors d'un repas ou d'un banquet. Cette pratique, qui remonte au xixe siècle, et qui tend à se perdre (sauf dans les réceptions officielles), participe à l'art de la table ; elle offre de précieux renseignements aux historiens de la cuisine ; le choix des différents mets pouvant être servi pour un repas au restaurant.

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 of trans-species art research,  featuring tracks from a new album entitled 'Crane Cries', which revolves around a live recording emulating the sounds and intentions of cranes through string improvisation and unusual techniques, by the quartet of Estonian violinist Elo Masing, German violinist Dietrich Petzold, Portuguese violist and cellist Ernesto and Guilherme Rodrigues, who name each of the 8 tracks after the behaviour of cranes,  forming a flock, migration, fighting, ritual dancing, and nesting. This conflation of the chat with a cat on a bicycle, and the avian themed avant guard music is purely coincidental, and only came about when isotopicee Elo Masing sent this latest release hot off the presses from Berlin, which is available as a limited edition from various online outlets including Ernesto Rodrigues' Bandcamp site here. Yet at the same time Elo has been working for several years now with avian artistic tandem Kakaduu, Agapornis Fischeri, originally from Central Africa and now based in Berlin, Germany. Kakaduu established themselves as artists in London, UK, where they lived from 2009 till 2015. They have been active in the visual arts since 2010 and first gained recognition with the wood veneer and cardboard sculpture “Me and My Home”. Other well-known works include “My Cage” and “My Nightmares About the Cat”. Most recently Kakaduu been the worlds first birds to have produced a human musical record release with Berlin based WIG ensemble's unique album Music For Birds, which features in a future edition is Isotopica. Much more to follow on our trans-species investigations to follow. Meanwhile as it turned out, Idoru was not unwell, and her recent strange behaviour was simply one of those cat things, although the vet (at the amazing and wonderful animal charity The Blue Cross)   mentioned several time that Idoru was fat.... Subsequently our new crash diet seems to have bought out the hidden kitten in both Voltaire and Idoru, and we have entered an exciting and new athletic phase under the aeroplane wing here at Phlight

Ken Livingstone Ken Livingstone, The only truly successful left-wing British politician of modern times ......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 2008. He also served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent East from 1987 to 2001.  Born in Lambeth, South London, to a working-class family, Livingstone joined Labour in 1968 Ken went on to become the head of the GLC. The GLC began as an effort to rationalise London-wide planning, London in the 1950s could be a grim place. Large swathes of residential streets remained derelict after being bombed out during the war and the houses still standing were often squalid and overcrowded. Thick fog hung over the city and roads were dirty and dangerous……. The GLC under Ken Livingstone was an an administration that successfully enacted a historically unprecedented radical program of successful and popular socialist policies, including massive investment in job creation, reducing public transport fares, the declaration of London as a nuclear free zone, saving over a million pounds annually spent on utterly cometic and pointless defence plans nik e hiding under a table before the bomb went off). Arguing that politics had long been the near-exclusive preserve of white middle-aged men, the GLC began an attempt to open itself to representations from other groups, principally from women, the working-class, ethnic minorities and homosexuals but also from children and the elderly. They initiated a raft of measures to improve the lives of minorities within London,  this included funding for groups such as London Gay Teenage Group, English Collective of Prostitutes, Women Against Rape, Lesbian Line, A Woman's Place, and Rights of Women, and the Ethnic Minorities Committee. Understanding the clear evidence that the Metropolitan Police was an institutionally racist organisation, he appointed Paul Boateng to head the Police Committee and monitor the force's activities.[100]  the police he remarked are highly political organisation, noting that when canvasing police flats at election time, you find that they are either Conservatives who think of Thatcher as a bit of a pinko or they are National Front."[100] An outspoken republican he politely refused an invitation to Diana and Charles Windsor’s wedding and the list of righteous achievements simply goes on and on, and of course  Just as today our overwhelming right wing press rabidly attacked such egalitarian policies, snowflake like and steeped in patriarchal white privilege they moaned that such policies only served "fringe" interests, and also like today their criticisms often exhibited overt racist, homophobic and sexist sentiment…   The GLC ended after an extended and fierce face-off between perhaps two of the most popular and divisive figures in British politics: Margaret Thatcher and Ken Livingstone, with Thatcher shamelessly abolishing the London’s Council she simply could not defeat by democratic means, with it’s formers headquarters, county hall still facing parliament from the south bank as an irony free monument to her neoliberal policies, the building now a Macdonalds,  a tourist trap aquarium and of course a hotel for the fifty rich.   This list of adventures and landmark achievements goes on and on, including two tenures as London mayor (the first time as an independent winning against Tony (call me Maggie) Blaire’s official labour candidate, he as been Characterised as "the only truly successful left-wing British politician of modern times, and today Ken Joins David Ellis and me Simon Tyszko on Isotopica live on resonance 104.4 FM.  

a doctored image, not fake 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 than 300 film soundtracks. He played for the first time on radio in 1938 with his “013” Big Band, to return on air only after the liberation of Italy in 1944. “013” was the first Italian jazz band to be broadcast in Italy after the fall of Fascism. A facism which is unbelievably on the rise pretty much across the word, a phenomena not loosely connected with the climate emergency that is slowly enveloping us as millions flee wars and starvation at least partially caused by the climate disruption we are all ready seeing…  I have often mentioned a proposed study into right Wing thought a disability, a deficiency in basic humanity and I guess in that case  fascism would be it’s cancerous analogue…. The music of Piero Piccioni to me represents that almost utopian period of optimism that sprang from the socialist post war settlement, the defeat of fascicm and the progressive redistribution of wealth creating a socially mobile and aspirational society that is in complete contrast to the , paraphrasing the UN Special rapporteur on extreme poverty in the uk he was describing an immiseration of millions of our people, and how the UK’s poorest people face lives that are “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”. The description contains what has been called one of the best-known passages in English philosophy, which describes the natural state humankind would be in, were it not for political community:[22] In such condition, there is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing, such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.[23]   Yet Reading Corbyn’s words yesterday had my head spinning, as our dreams of a socialist revolution coming to save the many from the few met Jeremy Corbyn's absurd statement on his plans for an imaginary soft brexit. This being both as absurd as Theresa May's "brexit means brexit”, and at the same time even more morally reprehensible, as his stance as leader of the greatest grass roots progressive movement in recent times, proves to be yet another tone deaf and deluded Blaire like dictator, feebly enabling and ‘respecting’ the most reprehensible political car crash and malign right wing coup in our political history. Just imagine…… An internationalist ’Corbynism’, defeating the hateful, abusive, and isolationist Brexit, could have been the shining light banishing the rising reactionary and xenophobic tide across Europe and the world, as we linked arms with our fellow Europeans to fight the truly vital issues of capitalist climate and ecological catastrophe, and together sheltering the many resultant refugees from a dying planet we have played such a large part in setting on fire. Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist who is known in the genre of free jazz.[1] Since the 1960s, he has released more than 100 albums. , in addition to flute, alto flute, and piano. Braxton studied philosophy at Roosevelt University. He taught at Mills College in the 1980s, and was Professor of Music at Wesleyan University from the 1990s until his retirement at the end of 2013.  He taught music composition and music history, with a concentration on the avant-garde, In 1994, he was given a genius grant by the MacArthur Foundation. In 2013, he was named a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master...

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

"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).

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 predetermination (in the style of Cardew's scratch Orchestra), screen the film and improvise (with collaboration from the audience). Enjoy. Today we listen to an edited recording from this remarkable event, one of many coming up to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution of Oct 1917. Originally conceived as part of a cycle of films commemorating the revolutionary events of 1905, Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin recreates in documentary-style the failed mutiny of the Black Sea fleet and the subsequent massacre of the people of Odessa. Innovative cinematography and editing techniques heighten the horrific nature of events. Although banned outright in many countries outside Soviet Russia, the film became an international sensation, and has had a lasting impact on world cinema. The arresting sequence of the massacre of civilians on Odessa’s steps is one of the most celebrated, analysed, and quoted in cinema history. The screening is accompanied by an entirely original soundtrack, devised and created in a direct response to the film. Late Junction presenter Max Reinhardt will lead an instant orchestra of professional and non-professional musicians, drawn from across London, to bring a contemporary response to an extraordinary piece of Soviet cinema. Isotopica will be performing Spectre, a 12 hour live improvisation based around a Morse code rendering of the Communist Manifesto on October 17th as a part of these centenary events on Resonance Extra. Spectre can be heard here  

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 unrelated field of study—quantum gravity,” he writes in a Business Insider essay on his discovery, “What I had realized… was that the same geometric principle that motivated Einstein’s theory was reflected in Coltrane’s diagram.” joshua jones openculture.org in this episode, we bare this beautiful confluence  in mind my dead brother stefan poses for this modernist autobiographical shot from around 1966 with both miles davis , herman neitze, and coltrane placed, artfully in plain sight

mind control through sound... beta and gamma radiation.... a radioactive thunderstorm... past life regression.... and much much more on isotopica.... like wow!

we prepared a saucepan, and played it as a semi autonomous instrument by 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 items, which we treated with a complex array of digital effects, and then mixed the various sound files into todays edition of isotopica. en paris jimmy fox freud

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  dudley sutton, national treasure you too can own one or more of these

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 by the socialist council in 2007. the event recorded here marks the anniversary of The Battle of Jarama (February 6–27, 1937), which was an attempt by General Francisco Franco's Nationalists to dislodge the Republican lines along the river Jarama, just east of Madrid, during the Spanish Civil War. Elite Spanish Legionnaires and Moroccan Regulares from the Army of Africa forced back the Republican Army of the Centre, including the International Brigades, but after days of fierce fighting no breakthrough was achieved. Republican counterattacks along the captured ground likewise failed, resulting in heavy casualties to both sides. i was accompanied by oldest friend john kenton who's father lou was one of the longest living brigadista, having died only two years ago at the age of 103. Lou Kenton was an English proofreader who served as a medical courier and ambulance driver with the International Brigade and was its oldest surviving member at the time of his death.

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 a world premiere of 'ode to brexit' by yours truly.

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 dominated the years after the Second World War until his death...and also we start the broadcast with Golden Dark, the haunting new collaboration between elo masing and david john hull, a tune which has grabbed me for somewhat different reasons....  so why ferré? perhaps this song encapsulates a particular european modernism, a swing, a twist upon so much culture, the unique francophone traditions of chanson... with the world dashing backwards from reason and truth this music has me perhaps, spinning in a better time.... so.. we play it four times, at different  durations (same pitch), as a meditation, and a celebration........   http://www.theculture.net/feed/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/tirez-bar-aged-2.mp4   my dad had 14 children and if today I wear Dior It’s obviously unrelated My virtue is not excusing itself so well None ever knew But when I did it had gone The modern life, modern life I had a nose like Cyrano A big, fancy, funny one A real radar for gigolos Since it’s been recovered from a cheapo surgery I can no longer sniff titties The modern life, modern life with then rounds of fertiliser biology spawns children who come home alone to their mummy in the labs they are horny and in the streets they cuckolded the hen lays eggs but sings no more The modern life, modern life Newspaper are like bandages They need to be changed sometimes Otherwise it messes with your mind And beside no need for ideas Because ideas make you think and thoughts make you argue The modern life, modern life There are people who look exotic and to scoff a “l’as de pique” they would go all the way to Peking Me without visa or prospect Albeit with bus tickets I see a lot of people, even Americans / and that’s not far The modern life, modern life The shops are overwhelmed selling paper gems the kind that won’t ruin you Tissues that only get used once So at least we know what what the purpose is to have 10 fingers The modern life, modern life

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 erect on human legs. Rediscovered in the Swabian Alb, south-west Germany, just two days before the outbreak of World War 2, the story of the LionMan is extraordinarily rich in so many interesting ways.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/197397402 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 into intolerance ignorance and prejudice,  we present a highly processed and viciously attenuated ultra modernist sampling from this years isotopica musical playlists to hopefully remind us all, that despite many of our heroes having died and our enemies having even greater power……..  we will always be the resistance.

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 the secret shelves in the great Senate tower. [advanced_iframe securitykey="57341ed54fbcaf450fb79cd76b9305493255f3f2xssw" src="http://theculture.net/01010/galleries/radicalpress/"]

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 and experimental new music. The result is a strikingly original melange that cannot fail to leave the listener untouched. golden dark looking out as the snow that falls upon the cold winter frozen ground the sky turns grey and the trees are bare a view i know where you cant be found 'cause i know that you belong here sweet girl eccentric golden dark and i believe that you possess things i forgot things i like tofind christmas time and the rush is on, we had our day for all to beseen i need to you to grow a little concentrate and find your thing cause i know that you belong here sweet girl eccentric golden dark and i believe that you possess things i forgot things i like tofind its conditional is all i can offer its a way after all its a modern world cause i know that you belong here sweet girl eccentric golden dark and i believe that you possess things i forgot things i like to find

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 his long term partner Lynn. Martin was an English guitarist and rare book dealer. A longtime resident of Fingest in Buckinghamshire, and latterly ParisA re-visit of 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 no winners in any pornography, it feels slightly less offensive through the patina of age [juicebox gallery_id="1"]

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. Cary Grant was very excited by and fond of LSD 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 styles and fashions engerlund, is struggling to understand what a nasty and shitty step it has taken.....  "what us", xenophobes?  what does that even mean, the plebysiteees ask...eye obviously have no  answers as such but i have made this algorithmically engineered sonic poem with a very confused cary grant to help us  s0rt it out. in this work, cary, an emigreé working for an immigrant  (Alfred Hitchock)wizz around and help us think... who are we now?  features dr lucilee bach on secret vocals 

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 sunk to embracing. morally, politically, strategically, financially, historically it is an abortion of our liberal future.  so here is an an episode about that 

    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 for a sexual organ which can also be used as a descriptor or insult, a word that is not passive, but active, even aggressive. It's the only word we have to describe the female genitalia that is neither mawkish, nor medical, nor a function of pornography.     There are no other truly empowering words for the female genitalia. 'Pussy' is nastily diminutive, as if every woman had a tame and purring pet between her legs, while the medical descriptor "vagina" refers only to a part of the organ, as if women's sexuality were nothing more than a wet hole, or "sheath" in the Latin. Cunt, meanwhile, is a word for the whole thing, a wholesome word, an earthy, dank and lusty word with the merest hint of horny threat. Cunt. It's fantastically difficult to pronounce without baring the teeth. *laurie penny new statesman 2011    

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 had by all.... Zelda Cheatle by kurt van Steelant photosensitive silver halide grains under an electron microscope

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..   as ever i claim few journalistic skills and actually find myself a little out of my bleak comfort zones, and instead in the dazzling bright lights where high culture meets high commerce…. Ropac, a charming man and one time student of jospeph beuys, displays a rare authenticity, especially in comparison with some of the london galleries of which many of us are so jaded and familiar….In reality a conversation perhaps only just begun, yet i hope you enjoy this little detour thru paris…… also featuring some rare japanese shellac 78 rpm recordings, marcel duchamp, john lennon, yoko ono and of course joseph beuys Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim photographed by *dennis hopper at "ICONS OF THE SIXTIES" ropac gallery pantin 2015* photograph chosen in memory of when isotopica last met hopper and after much laughter, we asked him to adopt us.... unfortunately.... *********

Mr David Ellis & Mr Simon Tyszko continue their random journeys thru the strange ephemera of empire past..... Today in the i ha results  gave up drinking, output boosted beyond e result year o e ringing had stopped, a h frequency en y hearing h f actors m y naturally se g electronically..... t hopees n attenuated vi r injected d

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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. where in Haight-Ashbury we week I like the words we spoke were at work we're what we had serifs on some of the words and some of them are like san serif in and we will mostly help better turns in an unknown an with a more sophisticated people that there were a lot in higher expert you know because well we would be channeling something from mother mother university nature and end we had a meal lots and we had those little slashes of a word shipment that you kind of an emphasis on the letter like a lady! you know?   I'm an this is nature's speaking to the young people at the time because is it wise the old people late just we're square we would round and so you can put a sign box which cause she couldn't do because we just didn't fit in the box we were excited about putting a difference about the did not spaces between us to highlight equilateral and innovative squares to be  and we were all about space that we were just all over space you know I'm back in Hyde Ashbury when you were panhandling you got like three dollars each six okay you know I'm now what they do is think I'm handling day based on a corporation man I can fuck it's like...... Uncertain States bring together artists, collectors, curators and archivists in a day of discussion around the role and artistic importance of the collector and collections within the context of fine art photography. Collections - in any form, private or public play a unique and crucial part in the documentation of contemporary visual culture. In open discussion, speakers and audience will consider the artistic influence of these collections. Who is collecting, where are the collections being held and what and why work is preserved.The day aims to encourage the audience that collecting can be a creative experience open to all and a superb entry level for anyone with the aspiration to start their own art collection. Speakers include galleriest and curator Zelda Cheatle, archivist Pete James, writer and curator Camilla Brown, artist and academic Richard Sawdon-Smith, Spencer Rowell and Simon Tyszko. BOOK NOW. in the mean time......... i want you (she's so heavy) I want you I want you so bad I want you I want you so bad It's driving me mad It's driving me mad I want you I want you so bad, babe I want you I want you so bad It's driving me mad It's driving me mad I want you I want you so bad, babe I want you I want you so bad It's driving me mad It's driving me mad I want you I want you so bad I want you I want you so bad It's driving me mad It's driving me mad She's so heavy Heavy, heavy, heavy She's so heavy She's so heavy Heavy, heavy, heavy I want you I want you so bad I want you I want you so bad It's driving me mad It's driving me mad I want you You know I want you so bad, babe I want you You know I want you so bad It's driving me mad It's driving me mad Yeah She's so