Isotopica: Recent Episodes
Simon Tyszko
Isotopica is an experimental radio series with each episode having a unique theme and flavour, starting off at point A and hopefully, ending up in another alphabet altogether. Ingredients are a mixture of sonic essays, experimental sound and music, psychogeographic and notional detours, special guests, field and location recordings, interviews, conversations, critical analysis, plus Gallery installation works, and all sprinkled with cultural marxist toppings. Uncertain terms and conditions may apply.
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. Chen thinks with places. She treats every exhibition as a living ecosystem, something breathing and slightly untameable.
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Finding myself with fuses blown as the Israeli war on the people of Gaza builds a macabre momentum, and Western Governments proudly stand by Israel as it executes textbook war crimes and crimes against humanity……
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
Bodies lie among the rubble of the Saqallah family house following an Israeli air strike in the south west of Gaza City, 19 October 2023. EFE-EPA/MOHAMMED SABER ATTENTION EDITORS GRAPHIC CONTENT
The bodies of children killed in an Israeli strike, lie on the floor at the morgue of the Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir Balah in the central Gaza Strip on October 22, 2023, as battles continue between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. (Photo by Mahmud HAMS / AFP) (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)Hello, good evening. It’s Sunday night. This is me, Simon Tyszko, and this is Isotopica here on Resonance 104.4 FM.
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.
I could approach this programme, reading lists of numbers, statistics, details of horrors,
yet I’m sure, at least I hope, you’ve all heard plenty of these.
They are unimaginable.
I could talk about the politics, yet I hope you’re aware of the politics of the situation as it stands.
So, today’s edition, I’ve taken a number of audio video live streams which are available online if you care to look.
These ones actually come from Al Jazeera, a news source which I find increasingly precise, accurate and genuine
without any of the ambiguity which we see even in allegedly left leaning papers like The Guardian.
Today’s programme is made up of a number of these live streams which are fixed point cameras
with microphones capturing live the bombardment of Gaza, a bombardment with some of the most sophisticated and intense weaponry available in the world,
and in this instance being deployed against civilians in a very small space in open prison.
All of these things, you know!
I have layered these recordings. And I have used various effects to bring out harmonics and resonant frequencies, which I’m allowing to play against each other, creating sounds within the sounds and to an extent rhythms within the sounds.
I’m not doing this as an entertainment, I’m doing this as a way of presenting or representing the horrors that I’m experiencing.
I could attempt to talk a lot more,
I could read off endless lists of numbers,
the number of children that die per hour,
the number of adults that die per hour,
the number of people that die per day.
I could quote the estimated numbers of people who are buried under the rubble
and I could detail the estimates of the number of those people that are still alive.
Yet I take it back to my experience of one particular news piece in which I saw a young girl, a child,
maybe seven years old, eight years old, who was found by rescuers,
possibly just neighbours who lived within or nearby the block which was demolished by extraordinary high explosive weapons, weapons probably provided by Britain or America, and which destroyed her home, killing many and trapping many too.
And as this young girl was found and I had to pause the video, I had to sob.
Faced with the reality of one child trapped in that situation, and with knowledge that adults across the world had joined in some kind of consensus and decided to do this to that one child, an act that can be multiplied and extrapolated over time,
over decades, can be projected into the future, and as it goes on hopefully I will continue to sob, whenever I come across a reality that I cannot escape from, that I can’t step to one side of…. I feel calmed knowing that I am still capable of Compassion, that it is reality there.
So summing up….. for the next hour we’re going to be listening to a composition made of live streamed audio recordings from Gaza
during the Israeli bombardment of the civilian population.
Multiple streams, creating multiple sounds, building to a crescendo, fading out into some music
by the experimental musician, sound artist Pauline Oliveros, which will take us to the end.
At which point I’ll join you again and say goodbye.
So now, Gaza, Isotopica, Resonance FM, bear witness……
I won’t say enjoy.
- The bodies of children killed in an Israeli strike, lie on the floor at the morgue of the Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir Balah in the central Gaza Strip on October 22, 2023, as battles continue between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. (Photo by Mahmud HAMS / AFP) (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)
We have been listening to Isotopica here on Resonance, 104.4 FM.Once again we have been focusing on the continued disaster, the bombardment of civilians by Israeli state in Gaza Strip.Today's program was made up of live streams taken from Al Jazeera, which were a fixed camera, fixed sound recordings of the bombardment as it continued.It was a mixture of streams taken from several days to create a composition of frequencies, of harmonies and of sonic texturesas a way of representing and bearing witness to the atrocities that are continuing.Thanks for listening to Isotopica, you can see more about us on our website, theculture.net.I have been catching the news this week from Novara Media and as mentioned Al Jazeera, both really good sources.Keep safe out there, thanks for listening, hope you join us again the same time, same place.Resonance 104.4 FM, Sunday evening, 7 to 8 with me, Simon Tyszko here on Isotopica.Free Palestine.
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
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. 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.
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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.
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This may very well be so - if during early development birds’ brains are not exposed to music and don’t learn to grasp it, they probably won’t be able to do it later. Much like a human child who, growing up in the wild without hearing any human language, wouldn’t be able to learn to speak as an adult, even when exposed to human speech.
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They become thoroughly unique experts on music, with their own completely unique taste, because their learning and teaching ability in the realm of sonic arts is great. If only someone saw it and knew how to use it.
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We’ve been lucky that we’ve come across two of such unique birds, who understand what’s there in the music they hear and what’s not in many respects better than humans. As choosing the right tracks for the album was much easier for them than it was for us, we gladly allowed Kakaduu to produce the record. Their enthusiastic chirping made it clear which pieces they preferred most. The album got put together quickly and insightfully and is dedicated to improving communication between birds and humans.
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This is a story about how a bird taught us to listen, see, and think, too. About something important and beautiful. And about lots of other things, too, about which you can read on Kakaduu's home page.
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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.
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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. Meanwhileas 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.
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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........
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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.
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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
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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
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.
this image is of a musical algorithm in action (sort of).
Dr Lucilee Bach (Sorbonne Paris), is engaged in a process of analysing, documenting and contextualising the historical studio practice of Simon Tyszko (Isotopica host: eccentric). In this episode the conversation had been broken into answer and response and then only one side (Dr Bach) is included in the composition. At the same time an algorithmically generated tonal pattern is overplayed in the style of modern music.
Capitalism farms you and your children
capitalism farms us all
martin rev and alan vega. i was once alan vega's sound engineer for a long european tour..... formidablé
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 citizens arrest on despot Robert Mugabe .today we are in informal conversation..... niiiiice peter grab the pig and the pigs fight back
: 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 the best of your knowledge and belief? A. Yes. Q. In other words, you late learned, did you not, that it had been broadcast on the same day that it was received, and I believe that was April 24, 1974, and I take it your recollection is that you had recorded that message a day or two prior to that time, April 22 or 23, a day along in there? A. I don’t know when it was received. Q. All right, but you do recall, do you not, that it was recorded in an apartment on Golden Gate Avenue at 1827. Were you familiar with that address? A. Not the address but it was on Golden Gate. Q. Were you familiar with the apartment complex, Apartment No. 6? A. Yes. Q. All right, and if I showed you a photograph, I believe you made reference to having recorded the message in that closet, it that correct? A. Yes. Q. Miss Hearst, I will show you two photographs which your attorney has handed to me and ask whether this appears to be the closet in which the tape recorded message was made? A. Yes. Q. Now, could we have these two photographs marked for identification. THE CLERK: Plaintiffs 88 and 89 marked for identification. THE COURT: Plaintiff’s Exhibit 88 and 89 for identification, photographs of the closet. [Plaintiff's Exhibits 88 and 89 marked for identification. Photographs of closet.) MR. BROWING: Thank you, Your Honor. Q. Now, was the closet door closed when hyou made the recording, Miss Hearst? A. Yes. Q. And you testified, I believe, that DeFreeze was in the closet with you at the time you made the recording? A. Yes. Q. Was there anyone else in the closet at that time? A. Me. Q. Pardon me? A. Me. Q. You and Mr. DeFreeze? A. Yes. Q. Now, approximately how long had you been at the apartment on Golden Gate at that time? A. A month, a month and a half. Q. A month, a month and a half? A. Yes. Q. So this was April, around April 21st, 22nd, so you had been there about March, late March? A. No. Q. Pardon me? A. No, I think the middle of March. Q. The middle of March, Okay. As a matter of fact, when you got to 1827 Golden Gate, or this apartment on Golden Gate, you were not being held in that closet all the time, were you? A. Yes, I was. Q. You were? A. Yes. Q. Was there a previous closet in which you were held? A. Yes. Q. Did you later ascertain that that closet was the 37 Northridge in Daly City? A. Yes. Q. A place in Daly City? A. Yes. Q. And you were kidnapped, were you not, on April 4, 1974? MR. BAILEY: February. THE COURT: Better get the month right. MR. BROWNING: Q. February 4, is that correct? A.Yes. Q. And you were held at Daly City from that date until the time you moved to Golden Gate, is that correct? A. Yes. Q. And you moved in a car, I take it? A. Yes. Q. Were you blindfolded? A. Yes. Q. And whose car was it, do you know? A. I don’t know. I was put into a garbage can that was tied up and put in the trunk of the car. Q. And then, was the garbage can taken into the apartment on Golden Gate when you arrived? A. Yes. Q. Were you in it? A. Yes. Q. And you were placed in a closet immediately, is that correct? A. Yes. Q. Do you remember signing an affidavit in this case earlier, Miss Hearst, in connection with your motion for boil? A. Yes. Q. You state in this affidavit, do you not: “She was then carried from the house,” that is your house in Berkeley, “and thrown into the trunk of the automobile. This car proceeded some distance when it was stopped, and she was then transferred to the body of another vehicle?” A. Yes. Q. “She was then taken to another house where she was placed in a closet on the floor; the closet was approximately five to six feet in length and about three feet in width. For several days she remained in this closet with her hands bound, blindfolded, and with no lights.
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 lives and works in London and Mexico City and curates Kosmica, a monthly series of space and arts gatherings at The Arts Catalyst London.
Nahum and i first worked together at the shunt lounge, a beautiful 1000 artist collaborative project under london bridge station which ran for some years until the foundations of the foul shard filled our playground with concrete.....
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 describe a relationship to one's literal body.
But today we are joined by Wellcome Trust / Clore/ Rijksakademie Fellow & FRSA Poet Astrid Alben who will be reading from her new collection Plainspeak.
Plainspeak is based on an early memory: when aged four or five she decided she wanted to be a boy, The boy she never got to be grew up alongside her as her alter ego, ‘Poet’ in these poems.
AND: Over the course of several months, Áine O'Dwyer was given access to the pipe organ in St Mark’s Church, Islington while the cleaners were at work. Primarily a harpist, this was a rare opportunity to grapple with the "king of instruments" and apply her sense of melodic, structured improvisation in a very different context.The result being Áine O'Dwyer - Music For Church Cleaners vol. I and II with which we happily assemble today's program around......
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 Now Schwitters john cage discusses something cool
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 microphonesLa nature d'acier pousse des fleurs chroméesLe juste en Cadillac s'encense du cigareLe courrier meurt de peur dans les aérogaresMiserere Seigneur du fond des destinéesLe boulanger joue la tournée au pain azymeLes moutons des prisons se laissent tricoterEt le coq de Saint Pierre a tranché son gosierMiserere Seigneur du fond des anonymesLes condamnés jouent au poker leur appétitEt laissent aux suivants leur part de JamaïqueLe coup de grâce dans le vent est liturgiqueMiserere Seigneur du fond des pilorisL'estomac du commun se met en diagonalLe traiteur donne aux chiens sa pitié tariféeLes boueux ont glissé sur des peaux d'orchidéesMiserere Seigneur du fond des capitalesLes banques de l'amour sont pleines à craquerLes "je t'aime" publics assomment les affichesLes adolescents ont des lèvres postichesMiserere Seigneur du fond des oreillersLes vitrines regardent passer les voyellesLes ortolans dans le commun prennent le fraisEt le saumon fumé boude le tapiocaMiserere Seigneur du fond de nos gamellesLes femmes en gésine inondent le pavéLes mineurs font un blanc à chaque lavaboLes souffleurs de Baccara font des bancosMiserere Seigneur du fond des encavésLes brebis de Panurge attendent au vestiaireLes visas escomptés percutent sur l'azurLa queue chez l'épicier jouit contre le murMiserere Seigneur du fond des muselièresLa ville a dégrafé son corsage de mortLes balles dans la rue ont la poudre nomadeLes pavés font la main aux yeux des barricadesMiserere Seigneur du fond des thermidorsLes temples sont cernés et sentent le roussiLes magasines font la pige aux évangilesEt les chemins de croix se font en crocodileMiserere Seigneur du fond des crucifixLe journal titre en deuil la putain des frontièresLa fleur fane au fusil et meure sous un drapeauEt les téléscripteurs nous mènent en bateauMiserere Seigneur du fond de nos galèresLa maladie veille au chevet des ganglionsLe coeur est métronome et la vie est musiqueA l'hôpital les symphonies sont catholiquesMiserere Seigneur du fond des pulsationsLa fonderie sur le tour égrène son rosaireLe tueur de la rue a gagé son beefsteakEt celui de Kobe n'aura pas un kopeckMiserere Seigneur du fond des mercenairesLe verbe s'est fait chaire dans le ventre ruséLa putain Marguerite a la peau qui dépasseLe caillot dans les plis sinueux se prélasseMiserere Seigneur du fond des pubertésLes bourgeois de la rue ont piqué la véroleEt réclament partout de faux médicamentsQu'on leur sert en faisant claquer toutes leurs dentsMiserere Seigneur du fond des carmagnolesLes sextants sont en grève au coeur des matelotsLes oiseaux carburés fientent les équipagesLe soleil fait la course avec le paysageMiserere Seigneur du fond des paquebotsLa trouille a revêtu la terre de sa housseLe plat de contrition se vend au marché noirLe curé fait du supplément sous l'ostensoirMiserere Seigneur du fond de la ressourceLes condamnés jouent au poker leur appétitIls vous laissent Seigneur leur part de solitudeLe service est compris nous avons l'habitudeDescendez donc seigneur de notre connerie
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 ultra high frequency (UHF) radio for over-the-air transmission of television signals. UHF frequencies are used for bothUltra
analog
and digital television broadcasts. UHF channels are typically given higher channel numbers, like the US arrangement with VHF channels 2 to 13, and UHF channels numbered 14 to 83. UHF broadcasting became possible due to the introduction of new
high-frequency vacuum tubes
developed by Philips immediately prior to the opening of World War II. These were used in experimental television receivers in the UK in the 1930s, and became widely used during the war as radar receivers. Surplus tubes flooded the market in the post-war era. At the same time, the development of color television was taking its first steps, initially based on incompatible transmission systems. The US FCC set aside a block of the then-unused and now-practical UHF frequencies for color television use. The introduction of the backward compatible NTSC standard led to these channels being released for any television use in 1952
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
a portrait with a portrait
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 computer-generated imagery on contemporary art"
a curation
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 all set to an echoed and hauntalogical soundtrack of some archival arabic 78's from the collection tyszko......
Dudley sutton
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 gave up drinking, i was desperate for feelings, any feelings, and this included trying to make (terrible) dance music in my home studio on headphones, with every possible output boosted beyond maximum... The result was that a year or so later the ringing had still not stopped, and gradually the high frequency end of my hearing has radically tapered off. In company of actors my hearing is fine, they naturally seem to projects without shouting, but mumblers and the not so sure tend to have me straining to catch every word... so now im going to start boosting my hearing electronically..... and am waiting with a vital interest for the results of several gene therapy studies that hope to regrow the damages cilia, with an attenuated viral vector injected directly into the ear..... watch this space My hearing test results Old Punks Hear Hard A vine from our 'isotopica alive' at the beaconsfield gallery 20th birthday celebration https://vine.co/v/e5EvezrnpVp Notting Hill Gate y quintessence 1967 Things look great in Notting Hill Gate They really move with the change in times But only you can know the reason why Why they hide behind their own third eye Things look cool in Notting school They never go about playing no rules But only you can know the reason why Why they fly in the sky so high Getting it straight in Notting Hill Gate We all sit around and meditate But only you can know the reason why Why we fly in the sky so high
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 and her first compositions were presented in the late 1960s. Until 2000 her work was almost exclusively created on a single synthesizer, the ARP 2500 modular system and tape. Since 2001 she has composed mainly for acoustic instruments.[1] and super loopy aetherius society, the real flying saucer people, forget area 43 it all happening in fulham sw6. And a looping monologue from the excellent DOWN TERRACE (2010) plus plus plus
space men
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 image of a future where life itself is reduced to it’s binary constituents of zero and one. We evoke this notion with some noises. (and some jazz). pure data, a groundbreaking digital generator and manipulator glitched jpeg from the black glove movie that has been glitched in this episode..meta. heck yes buy some of this delicious incense from isotopica's visiting joss stick expert, the famous happy harihttp://www.happyhariincense.com/cart/ yummy stix It occurred to me that much of our increasingly populous world is and can be design algorithmically, is like a flow chart, you this if that or then that if not this etc. etc. the restaurant chain Leon is perhaps a prime example as is Haagen Das, a meaningless set of words that sound like expensive ice cream. Leon has family style photographs that would appeal directly to the nostalgic and home missing demographic it aims at, the various elements are a carefully designed pick and mix of semiotic fishing hooks…. With everything with meaning being so devoid of meaning then the random becomes so much more precious…. the impossible sounds that glitched digital audio can produce have become a new landscape for artists to explore, much as the minimal bits in between, the negative spaces define what we have listen to in the past then the 50 hrz hum, the plugging in and out of a guitar lead become more meaningfull that the songs they interrupt. Glitching can simply be arranging things that shouldn’t happen, or not arranging them or letting an algorithm arrange them…. Importing raw hexadecimal data into a sound editor from a text an image or even a video will produce a new world of sound more visceral than any syth…. today i have taken an episode of the magic roundabout and converted it into a digital static mixed in with a similar disassembly of a cult s&m film called black glove (something I’m recontextualising in my studio), all this mixed and muxed with some of the familiar background noises from isotoiopca Rioji ikea who preformed live in hoxton last week in a blistering style, and of course alva alto…
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 test for our performance with a hanging piano at the Beaconsfield gallery 20th Birthday celebrations..... phew! oh and we finish with the delicious and absurdist Senor Coconut.......
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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 single artist episode of isotopica, but....... after the shocking (or is it?) election results returning the most absurdly mendacious, illiberal, spiteful government in our history, i think we deserve nothing less. enjoy
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", 2012 https://vimeo.com/55864936 Stills from Lithuanian Detour 23 with tyszko and ellis 2003(ish) [advanced_iframe securitykey="57341ed54fbcaf450fb79cd76b9305493255f3f2" src="http://theculture.net/01010/galleries/lithuania14/index.html" width="100%" height="500"]
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 met collaborators, ended up in beds and garrets, bars and restaurants. I have played the game and worked the rooms........ Yet as i have moved away from academia and the anonymous invitations multiply, the vibrant pulse of the hottests blooded galleries perhaps, becomes somewhat harder to feel.
Therefore today i am In light conversation with the delightful Patrick Fetherstonhaugh, Founder (along with brother Tristram) of GalleriesNow.net, which is a curated guide to the best art exhibitions at galleries in London, New York, Paris, Berlin and around the world.
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A contemporary mystery, sub-judice, too hot to handle, unrepeatable.. yes, it's Isotopica investigative reporting at it's very best and most oblique.......
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 of late game global neoliberal capitalism....... fuuuuuuuuck! No Future?
A conversation with arch adventurer David Ellis is followed by an algorithmically generated chromatic scale composition. Gentle
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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 60’s adventures in New york with Joan Littlewood, dope fuddled filming in Antigua and more recent collaborations with Andrew Kotting (testing soil temperature with bare buttocks and poems in a pedalo). Delishhhh! Dudley in andrew kottings "this Filthy earth"
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 generally revel in our very own Brutal Meta Modernist and Miserablist Seasonal spirit.... Join us and forget all this tinsel cheer (repeated forever and ever and ever 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 present. (we ended up semi flooded in the making of this episode). plumb 1 verb the actor's attempt to plumb the twisted psyche of Richard III: explore, probe, delve into, search, examine, investigate, scrutinize, inspect, sound out, go into, understand, fathom, get to the bottom of, penetrate, unravel. elo masing with stringed instrument
the peerless ClaAptOn Ensemble
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, like a cat on a hot tin roof; Brit. informal like a cat on hot bricks, stressy. ANTONYMS calm. 2 he had spent a restless night: sleepless, wakeful, insomniac; fitful, broken, disturbed, troubled, unsettled, uncomfortable; tossing and turning; archaic watchful; rare insomnolent. ANTONYMS peaceful. Restless As our thoughts turn towards hibernation, isotopica peers inwards to the restless pink noise of the artist's soul. Marking just over a year since our last notable exhibition (UNFunFair Beaconsfield London), and without even the lingering fumes from a barely remembered sale, we use unpaid bills for warmth on the fire as we look for reasons to get out of bed, and Sisyphus like do what artists do… Therefor we present a gentle soundscape entitled ‘Restless’ which perhaps echoes (we love echo) the winter lives of of the creative at the fringe of one of the most monied art worlds in history.
Restless’ 58m 32seconds Tyszko 2014
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 artist David Ellis, we talk categories and how to stay out of them.
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Mekas tribute: David Ellis and Simon Tyszko from Serpentine Galleries
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 such in (un)typical Isotopica style. From Zagreb, to Split, to the Leaning towers of London, both brutal and Meta Modern, Herbert Vows to return to Isotopica in more cogent form, yet personally I loved it.
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 do, we consider...... the world Something Foul in our world So lets go back, way backwards in time, in fact backwards through Gaza. Perhaps some will come back to life, perhaps not, and then some Jazz......
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 by Halldóra Mogensen, Jón Þór Ólafsson and Birgitta Jónsdóttir on Monday, would instruct the Minister to form a team to “map ways to ensure an unconditional minimum income for all the country’s citizens, with the aim to support economic and social rights and eliminate poverty.” Therefore Isotopica treats with Icelandic MP Halldóra Mogensen, who as a Pirate Party member is also listed as Poet, Dreamer. Dreaming a society free of mindless doing. Nurturing the human being versus the human doer. Dóra read us us a poem and we happily digress while floating in an algorithmically generated pentatonic composition. Political balance is maintained with a delightful viral clip from a recent LBC phone in show in which a UKIP supporter demonstrates the nuance and subtlety with which the United Kingdom Independence have gauged the pulse of this Foul Britannia....... A smile rearranged. It’s as if I’m standing still, orbiting our collective will, a string tied taut with me caught and then applied to the world, but I am soon to be hurled off course by a planet dying, an imploding supernova defying my steady cause, eroding in space where matter is grace, how it recombines at the pace of a pause, and redefines the cold landscape that I mind during my time without time, behind the unseen, beyond reason and its fallible doctrine, where life has no beginning and no end, where being is winning and everything else is pretend. A pantomime that I will no longer attend to nor pretend to partake in for how can I forsake this gift that I am to conceive a belief where I’m adrift in grief, believing that I’m alone, a clone of mistrust and misfortune spawned from the seeds of societies ill deeds and soon to be dead. In a bed. In a room. In a house. My tomb full of things that were never enough, a life spent collecting, not wisdom, but stuff, experience traded for faded belongings, a smile rearranged for a tear, joy exchanged for fear, life in a prison for the free, all this when all I need to do is just be. Tyszko, Naked, hurls Molotov Cocktails at Mother Nature's Frozen Best,in Aktion Werk Satire Number Seven. (way after Richard Long) Iceland 2004
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 artist. We talk ingredients, methods, place and time with master of the joss stick Paul 'Happy Hari' Eagle. Hari's delicious incense is available here Happyhariincense.comSimon and Paul are discussing a PsychoAromatic memory project together as part of Tyszko's long journey into the tragedies of his past, heading back to Notting Hill gate in the mid 1960's when Tyszko lost his brother and where much of his practice first originated... watch this space
an eye from the village 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 the lost with the found and collected, the missing, and the missed, in a contemporary story telling style that just more than nods to the highest of high modern, post we are not, liberal yes, not neo liberal, most definitely not. Want in? Join us on a mountain..... for real...... Contact me and discuss..... [field name=xframe]
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 Birgitta Jónsdóttir of the Pirate Party and quietly bare witness to an intense and seemingly insoluable slaughter.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that 2014 Israeli offensive on Gaza, where around 600 children killed, was “necessary.” During a hearing held by the State Control Committee at the Israeli Knesset, he said: “We did not want a war in the summer of 2014 and we tried to prevent it.” He continued: “That war was necessary and that the conflict was a clear victory for Israel, seen by the fact that Hamas begged for it to end.”
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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 Laura in gaza. Recorded over the weekend of 19th-21st july 2014 Jehad's video stream Twitter
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 nice, do the best we can and get on with it. oui? and god was good
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 epic series of exhibitions Ship to Shore in southampton.
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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 creative period, from 1963 to 1970.[2] A February 17, 1992 article in The New York Times referred to him as "Andy Warhol's most important associate."[3][4] Malanga was involved in all phases of Warhol's creative output in silkscreen painting and filmmaking. He acted in many of the early Warhol films, including Kiss (1963), Harlot (1964), Soap Opera (1964), Couch (1964), Vinyl (1965), Camp (1965), Chelsea Girls (1966); and co-produced Bufferin (1967) in which he reads his poetry, deemed to be the longest spoken-word movie on record at 33-minutes nonstop. Malanga played a combination of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby in Warhol's film Since (1966). Also in 1966, he choreographed the music of the Velvet Underground for Warhol's multimedia presentation, The Exploding Plastic Inevitable. In 1969, Malanga was one of the founding editors, along with Warhol and John Wilcock, of Interview magazine.[5] In December 1970, Malanga left Warhol's studio to pursue his work in photography. [field name=xframe]
Marina Rabbit in Greta 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, 000 inches, then turn off (idle) the engine and attempt to glide back to earth while discussing art, photography and death, you get…dead drop, this week's episode of isotopica . [field name=xframe] [field name=bframe] [field name=dframe]
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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 space with historic house, ancient gardens, revitalized greenhouses and some of the oldest trees in London. [field name=xframe]
Can you hear that deafening sound echoing through London? Just fuck off 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 some art house cinema workers (curzon) who describe their personal war of attrition as this much loved cultural institution gets hollowed out and expands as a brand, to provide value for the shareholder and remove all traces of the passion that originally bought it life. This fight is a microcosm of the battle waging all around us as the human right to a living wage is spat upon by our neo-liberal kleptocracy. All voices have been disguised as dissent is punishable by zero hours on a zero hour contract. links to follow to find out more and get involved
curzon workers petition
Curzon Workers twitter
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Write directly to philip.knatchbull@curzon.com tell him how you feel about the living wage and the plasticisation of the curzon cinemas.
We also speak with Salman Shaheen a spokesperson for Very exciting Left Unity the new party of the real left, details of left unity here
Ritzy worker campaign for living wage
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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, listen , and see the world catch fire.........
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
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Delia Derbyshire could spot the individual instruments in the grooves of a vinyl recording. Perhaps she had gifts from heaven. Delia (with her colleagues at the bbc radiophonic workshop) invented techno electronic music, was instrumental in developing sampling and was light years ahead of the world she inhabited. I recently listen to a small selection of her work and felt dwarfed in its presence. Today's episode is an homage........
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 Burning Children to head off notional sharing of resources (communism) for this resonance 104.4fm fundraisng week tyszko and sossi will perhaps (or perhaps not) heal some right wing children. Oh Jesus They will set your soul free by helping you to contribute to your very own emptiness, find out how and view magical items here, including a bubble bath under an aeroplane wing.
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Free of One’s Melancholy Self A very big Quaalude 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 pharmaceutical company. The name “quaalude” is both a play on “Maalox,” another product manufactured by William H. Rorer Inc., and a synthesis of the phrase “quiet interlude”—a concept so simple and often so out of reach. Just whisper “quiet interlude” to yourself a few times. Seductive, no? It’s the pill in the “take a pill and lie down” directive thousands of Don Drapers gave their Bettys. Personally i was lucky enough to have a few years when the english version of Methaqualone Maandrax was still just available on our very black market. In the very early eighties i managed to get several boxes of a South African branded capsules which were that last of this particular drug i have every seen. There are no mention of Quaaludes in this episode, they just sprang to mind while writing this podcast, yet would certainly have been on Edie's regular lists.
This week the third marlboro man dies of smoking related disease, therefore we listen to unrelated euphonics and a malboro advert whoops Poly Styrene joins us for a very youthful chat xray spex late 70's.Lora Logic was a brief date before Heroin won for me and Hari Krishna won for her (i never did meet him)
Welcome to Foul Britannia a country of happy turkeys working hard for a happy Christmas The current Fascist Fashion in Foul Britannia These fools are the new Eugenicists, the wagers of a very Class War 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 it has come, turn on each other in small minded nationalism. It's class comedy of the highest order. The safeguards and frameworks for the majority, so bitterly won from the plutocratic minority in the Twentieth Century are being dismantled and sold off at a loss in a hilarious fire sale, it's Naomi Klein's shock doctrine writ large, the evidence of the crime so massive, so obvious and so tragically ignored! Play list farm barn__ba.stap Give it to me baby (1967).stap ZOOM0005.stap communist_manifesto_mfs_librivox 01 garment (for a garment).mp3 01 The City Wears a Slouch Hat (original radio broadcast).mp3 1-01 One for Ging with Klux-Top.mp3 1-06 Acte 2_ Petite Bourgeoisie.m4a 1-20 Drama In The Futurists' Cabaret.m4a 1-23 About Two Squares - A Suprematist Story.m4a 1-28 Decree About The Nothingists Of The Poetry.m4a 1-31 Poem Without Title.m4a 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03-Konono_No_1--Kule_Kule 1.mp3 03 Ki-Motion.mp3 03 Scherzo. Leggiero e vivace.m4a 04 Highmatrix.mp3 04 The Dybbuk.mp3 06 - Place Of Dead Roads - The Purple Better One.m4a 07 In a Young Time.mp3 07 Rav Nova.mp3 10 Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning.mp3 20 Balenottera.m4a Bob DylanI pity the poor immigrant.mp4 british rail station__ba.mp3 Communication Engaged.caf Electricty Surge.caf farm barn__ba.mp3 Hidden London The Real Battle of Cable Street - YouTube.mp4 Les Amoreux Des Bancs Publics.mp3 lucian_turkey_song.aiff Tape Rewinding 02.caf turky_tu.mp3 ZOOM0003.WAV ZOOM0004.WAV ZOOM0005.WAV
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 by Joseph Losey titled, The Assassination Of Trotsky
As ever more will be revealed
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 the Breaking Convention A Multidisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness. london july 12-14th [field name=xframe]
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 performance. From DV8 through Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Stuart Brisley and then home with a classically dance trained body work session on Tyszko by dancer, performer and trainer Julian Diaz. [Repeated Sunday 6am.]
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 23, 1734 – March 5, 1815) sometimes incorrectly referred to as Friedrich Anton Mesmer, was a German physician with an interest in astronomy, who theorised that there was a natural energetic transference that occurred between all animated and inanimate objects that he called magnétisme animal (animal magnetism)[1] and other spiritual forces often grouped together as mesmerism. Mesmerism is considered to be a form of vitalism and shares features with other vitalist theories that also emphasize the movement of life "energy" through distinct channels in the body. In 1843 James Braid, a Scottish physician proposed the term hypnosis for a technique derived from magnetism but more limited in its claimed effects, and also different in its conception. Mesmer's name is the root of the English verb "mesmerize". [field name=dframe]
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 transmission (radio broadcast), and object making (specifically the installation of objects) also adjust our experience to the living-space of art, co-extensive in public and private realms; unseen, or unheard; and how we compose our experience through chance encounters to revisit an event. The panel will ask how chance is to be anticipated, put into play, and it might define an encounter with an object’s undecideable and transitory character. A Throw of the Dice Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hazard - (A throw of the dice will never abolish chance) Stephane Mallarmé The concept A throw of the Dice derives from a project that has looked at how Stephane Mallarmé composed the poem Un coup de dés over a hundred years ago in 1897 which anticipated, by the ‘logic’ of chance, a kernel of mathematical truth. Art is a performative signifier that placed onus on the spectator and reader as creator and interpreter of a work. What is chance, but an event that deters all predictable outcomes? Where does the contemporary artist, designer or curator locate chance as part of a practice? The relation of chance to visibility/invisibility is one that is raised through the public space of performance and dialogue. Since Mallarmé’s work resounded in how it ‘sounded’ differently through repeated readings and how words slipped across signification to mean other things at other imagined times, the poem is evocative of figures and yet also constituted as a precise technology of musical arrangements and visual metaphors. We have invited speakers who are artists who are also practitioners in the fields of music, journalism, and criticism to discuss the power of chance operating outside the official cultural signs of the ‘voice’ by multiple readings of the text. This becomes very apparent in rereading the work Un coup de dés. It is on this basis that the MA participants have developed responses to present a constellation of new works under the umbrella of Un coup de dés that interrogate avant garde practice, as a constant need for repetition in the ‘throwing the dice’. It is precisely why, we ask, the avant-garde cannot take place, or throw the dice, once and for all times, ‘but must be permanently repeated to resist permanent historical change and chronic lack of time.’ Boris Groys ‘At the beginning of his Lectures on Aesthetics, Hegel asserted that in his time, art was already a thing of the past. Hegel believed that, in the time of modernity, art could no longer manifest anything true about the world as it is. But avant-garde art has shown that art still has something to say about the modern world: it can demonstrate its transitory character, its lack of time; and to transcend this lack of time through a weak minimal gesture requires very little time—or even no time at all. Boris Groys, The Weak Universalism e-flux journal 2010 [field name=xframe] Talk A panel discussion with Peter Fillingham, artist, curator and academic, Nooshin Farhid, artist and curator currently lecturing at Central St Martins, University of the Arts, London; Colm Lally, Artist and Director of Event Gallery; Giorgio Sadotti, artist; Peter Suchin, artist and critic for Art Monthly, Frieze; Simon Tyszko, artist and broadcaster for Resonance Radio FM; Dr Cecilia Wee, Lecturer in Communications at Royal College of Art, musicologist, and broadcaster for Resonance Radio FM; and Elizabeth Wright, artist and Pathway Leader in 3D at Central St Martins, University of the Arts, London. The MA Art and Design cordially invites the public to take part in the event and to contribute during the day to the discussion with the panel of guest speakers, chaired by Peter Lewis, Course Leader, MA Art and Design.The discussion will consider the operation of chance or ‘open’ textual pro...
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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, Stuart Brisley. Picking from over five decades of works and actions at the very edges of contemporary art, Simon discusses topics ranging from Stuart’s blacklisting by the British Council, setting fire to the outside of Tate Britain, and Agitation Propaganda. [Repeated Sunday 6am.]
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.
Indeed! Considering my own dalliance with curious mental health (addiction, depression, the vapours), this is first in an occasional series on the human psyche.
the foulest legacy Born: October 13, 1925, Grantham Died: April 8, 2013, London
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After neoliberalism: analysing the present Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin The founding editors of Soundings set out the framing analysis for our online manifesto. W ith the banking crisis and the credit crunch of 2007-8, and their economic repercussions around the globe, the system of neoliberalism, or global free-market capitalism, that has come to dominate the world in the three decades since 1980, has imploded. As the scale of toxic debt became evident, credit and inter-bank lending dried up, spending slowed, output declined and unemployment rose. The system’s vastly inflated financial sectors, which speculate in assets largely unrelated to the real economy of goods and services, precipitated an economic crisis whose catastrophic consequences are still unfolding. We believe that mainstream political debate simply does not recognise the depth of this crisis, nor the consequent need for radical rethinking. The economic model that has underpinned the social and political settlement of the last three decades is unravelling, but the broader political and social consensus apparently remains in place. We therefore offer this analysis as a contribution to the debate, in the hope that it will help people on the left think more about how we can shift the parameters of the debate, from one concerning small palliative and restorative measures, to one which opens the way for moving towards a new political era and new understandings of what constitutes the good society. 1 For three decades, the neoliberal system has been generating vast profits
9 After neoliberalism: analysing the present for multi-nationals, investment institutions and venture capitalists, and huge accumulations of wealth for the new global super-rich, while grossly increasing the gap between rich and poor and deepening inequalities of income, health and life chances within and between countries, on a scale not seen since before the second world war. In North America and Western Europe - hitherto dynamos of the global economic system - rates of
growth are now lower than during the early post-war decades, when there was a more even balance of power between the social classes. There has been a steep decline in manufacturing and a hot-house expansion of financial services and the service economy; and a massive shift of power and resources from public to private, from state to market. ‘The market’ has become the model of social relations, exchange value the only value. Western governments have shown themselves weak and indecisive in responding to the environmental crisis, climate change and the threat to sustainable life on the planet, and have refused to address the issues in other than their own - market - terms. Likewise, the financial crisis has been used by many Western governments as a means of further entrenching the neoliberal model. They have adopted swingeing ‘austerity measures’ which, they claim, is the only way of reducing the deficits generated during the bonanza period of the 1980s and 1990s. They have launched an assault on the incomes, living standards and conditions of life of the less well- off members of society. In the UK, the cuts programme has frozen incomes, capped benefits, savaged public sector employment and undermined local gover nment. It has encouraged private capital to hollow-out the welfare state and dismantle the structures of health, welfare and education services. The burden of ‘solving’ the crisis has been disproportionately off-loaded on to working people, targeting vulnerable, marginalised groups. These include low-income, single-parent families; children in poverty; women juggling part-time employment with multiple domestic responsibilities; pensioners, the disabled and the mentally ill; welfare-benefits and low-cost public housing ‘dependants’; the young unemployed (especially black youth); and students.
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 same time Lijn began to draw and paint, (although she didn’t attend art school), whilst taking part in meetings of the Surrealist group, where she met the French writer, poet and theorist André Breton. The writers and poets William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Sinclair Beiles and Brion Gysin were in the same circle as Lijn, and their book on ‘cut-ups’ entitled Minutes to Go had previously been launched at the Librairie Anglaise in 1960.
We discuss her works and life touching on projects that include Chemin De Fer (The Power Game 1970-present day), Prisms, working with NASA scientists and much in between. this just may be part one of two...
Liliane's website is at www.lilianelijn.com
The Power Game 1970 The card game originally called Keys consists of 52 playing cards with a printed word on each side. First performed in 1974 at the International Festival for Democracy in Chile, Royal College of Art, London in collaboration with Alistair Mackintosh.
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 hazy psychodrama that was the short and glamorous life of my brother stefan tyszko, who, dying in a car crash in 1969, left me with curious fragments, the pieces of a labyrinthine puzzle, a truly magical mystery tour, our new conversations bringing more pieces into view, and as ever, the story deepens.. using techniques from the new disciplines of hauntology (developed from a beautiful mispronunciation and misunderstanding of ontology) we dance around a sixties theme with a rethinking of a tony palmer documentary on the new age of pop(all my loving) made in 1968 heather jansch (sewell) photgraphed by my brother stefan in portobello road in 1967
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 chosen study. In todays episode we wander around his thoughts and meander through reminiscence, while he sports the Duke Of Windsor's Haircut, a delight, im sure you will agree. Just Who Is Bob Kingdom.Seen here in my studio, bob appears as a West Coast Hitman Bob Kingdom Seen Here As Dylan Thomas Having An Impossible Chat With Quentin Chrisp (Betty Bourne) Bob Kingdom As The Duke Of Windsor Bob Kingdom as J.Edgar.Hoover Himself
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 white thai heroin in his flat, grinned when i eventually came to, 'that's so right' i thought! Got caught doing 100+ miles an hour on the westway above this (subway) gallery space, very early 80's, bleached white hair, half an ounce of cocaine in my pants, no tax, no mot, 60 miles above the speed limit, a dark blue rusting 4.2 liter jaguar saloon xj6, a very loud hawaiian shirt, mirror shades. 'naughty boy' i mouthed the words as the police pulled along side at the now legal 50mph, my legs shook like trifled jelly, 'wanker' they mouthed as they shot off for tea...... a dudley sutton lino cut at the opening of which we recorded young josh trying to sell his art white heroin stamp
Relationships, causality, isotopes, Psychoanalysis one of these was my first rock star girlfriend
lora logic photographed by simon tyszko in 1978? for the first essential logic album beat rhythm news, we briefly were the girlfriend who has changed her name and will no longer be named 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 Arthur Prysock C6::counterpoint Ryoji Ikeda A Demain My Darling Marie Laforet on with the show the rolling stone you call everybody darling the andrew sisters (78 transcription) 3 beautiful and mysterious tracks from the european girlfriend who has changed her name to *** with music by her ex who died in a base jumping accident, strange world or ................................. ‘Nobody Told Me (There Would Be Days Like These)’Hand knitted Arran wool straight jacket 1995.
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 a short film by rufus davis, that was started as a documentary, about a provincial cricket club, a quintessential english country affair, yet it ended as being a tribute to one of it's most unusual members, Andrew Russel, my nephew and very close friend, who died in the care of a very careless shaman during a far less common country pursuit, the english ayahuasca ceremony. He had a very unusual and bad reaction, and instead of ending up oin hospital, he was taken to a yurt on our welsh woodland retreat and kept in a coma for a few days, when he finally reached hospital it was too late and the machines that go beep were turned off.... bowled out, way before his time. the full story will be somewhat later...,
The film concludes with a slo mo cricket sequence accompanied by the Roy Harper classic, When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease. Roy being incidentally, one of my brother Stefan's closest friends from the 1960's, sharing wives and lovers, so roy tells... stefan also died way too young, in a car crash in 1969 Photographed by his brother Stefan, Tyszko modeled the very first space hopper in Europe for the Daily Express in 1968. This glamorous high point has never been matched, and he has returned to this path in Holland park at various points in his life, looking perhaps, for echoes of those iconic moments and the sixpence he still bitterly remembers loosing.roy harper photographed by stefan tyszko in 1966 Later we hear excerpts from some soundscapes recently recorded on a trans american train journey by our northern american correspondent marc maroosh of serephemera books phame,
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, feels slightly less offensive through the patina of age.
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 Yes I have Crush on a dead Woman
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 some discreet recordings from the days filming, some excellent progressive rock, a broken 78 and various selected sounds for effect. a dead 78 a dead friend vying for attention during a bbc interview Sebastian Horsley's infamous amputee sex, postcard randomly appears on screen during filming this playlist today we had some tracks from Cries From The Midnight Circus _ Ladbroke Grove 1967-78 Mighty Baby" House with no windows Quintessence" notting hill gate as a lead up to my trip to paris to find Martin StoneThe Quintessence track Notting Hill Gate features the joyfully naive lyrics belowThings look great in Notting Hill Gate They really move with the change in times But only you can know the reason why Why they hide behind their own third eye Things look cool in Notting school They never go about playing no rules But only you can know the reason why Why they fly in the sky so high Getting it straight in Notting Hill Gate We all sit around and meditate But only you can know the reason why Why we fly in the sky so high
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. French kissing an innocent. a still from fabulous 1961 British supernatural gothic horror film 'the innocents' playlist theme tune and excerpts from Viva la Muerte (Long Live Death)-1971-Fernando Arrabal Shadowed Forest: by softspace wedding tune: Kadir Durvesh (Shehnai) Kod Hang Kam: Kana TNT from the never dissapointing thai label Zud Rang Maa a stroll on the south coast, way back when with pippa small theme tune from 'the innocents' 1961 British supernatural gothic horror film. From a trip to scatter my cats ashes in india, the sound of tibetan monks debating the meaning of... The 8bit midi sound of a keygen cracking code last message from a crashing aeroplane audio book cassette advice an ex girlfriend's one hit wonder band from the early 80's excerpt from a large scale performance work made with the shunt collective some time ago Mcoy tyner plays burt bacharacht to fade out....... by the seaside beside the sea
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 Made For radio Polaroids made for Radio Polaroids made for Radio Polaroids made for Radio Polaroids in the Style of Bacon we end up today with a tribute to Ravi Shankar playing Homage to Mahatma Gandhi. Raga Mohan Kauns the episode also features soundscapes from Amusing Amusements, Southend on Sea
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 right questions and falling off the correct logs. sites like tonymac provide a complete hive hacking information service with responsive forums if problems arise. it's much more of a joy to really pwn your own machines and grab back some of the gross commodification of your digital life In this episode we build powerful hackintosh computer, jimmy fox and i that is. it's based around a gigabyte z77 motherboard, an i5 processor (more cores are not required in a gaming machine), a chunck of ram. it boots windows 7 as a gaming platform, Linux mint for serious tinkering and hacking, and the ever sophisticated apple mac os x 10.8.2 for the best possible everyday working environment. i have scored the build with a probably too quiet yet sensational reworking of Vivaldi's four seasons from the ever fabulous max richter a hackintosh in it's open wooden case here's one i made earlier. a monster of a computer more akin to a soviet era traktor collective than a desktop.
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 twins (not mine), a car crash of a studio including the loss of a $50,000 piece of work into a skip by a bizarre and bullying caretaker, the harsh emotional reality of loosing a planned future home and family along with 4 acres of prime welsh woodland to an alcoholic sister along with my nephew, closest family member and friend, who was killed by the sheer stupidity of a hippy shaman in a sham of an ayahuasca ceremony. Pat, my sister about a year before alcoholism killed her I took to my bed for about four months, a smoking jacket, a laptop, some java script and many lovely friends, kept me just about afloat, I kid you jingle bells or not? and of course, i meant without the jacket and without smoking Combine this with a Tory x factor very little Britain of shopping malls crowds like turkeys looking forward to Christmas, oh yes, so this is Christmas… And just what will this sound like? after a life time of frequent visits from the black dog and her puppies, Tyszko wishes to make clear it is simply business as usual at theculture art practice, another day another death wish, but the mischief goes relentlessly on and on... xx
addictive to even the purest soul
over the counter 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 the bathtub manufacture of heroin from raw opium.
remixed over a soundtrack including rare arabic 78 shellac recordings and avante guard electronica, this episode is perhaps the perfect product
the sheer banality of domestic addiction
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 Vermouth to the mix with the holiest moment in Catholicism, being the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. Deliciously dry humour, dry gin, and a very catholic blasphemy.
This episode contains a punchline playlistAnanda Lahari clogsHeijastuva ØAnksiolyytti ØArctic Hysteria The Residents013 +- 6.18 Christian FenneszCarillon Michael HarrisonAnimus RedhookerMinor Key Simon tyszko
Un Chien Andalou (French pronunciation: [œ̃ ʃjɛ̃ ɑ̃dalu], An Andalusian Dog from the 1929 film by Buñuel and Dalisimon tyszko ' worry' Perhaps an underlying theme for this episdoe and one echoed by the text and 'punchline' narrated by tyszko at the end Piss Christ is a 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano
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 to the old school violence of Kray Twins, gently mixed to a distant soundtrack from Jack Nitzsche, Skip James et al. PAYPHONE, NOTTING HILL GATE, 1960 'THE LAY ABOUT LIFE' - PHOTO ESSAYTERENCE DONOVAN (1936-1996) Photographed by his brother Stefan,Tyszko modeled the very first space hopper in Europe for the Daily Express in 1968.This glamorous high point has never been matched,and he has returned to this path in Holland park at various points in his life,looking perhaps, for echoes of those iconic momentsand the sixpence he still bitterly remembers loosing. Anita Pallenberg and James Fox
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 through to present day london town. Marks left by ancient felt tip pens on rocks provide us with clues with which to form our conclusions. Sounds on a wire from Alvin Lucier, parenthesize our discussions. Alvin LucierStill and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
herb and simon get groovy 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, in the loosest possible way, the first Lisbon Open House Event, the sale of Admiralty Arch, the dissolution of the house of Windsor and the proposed conversion of Buckingham palace into Artist studio's and allotments. mixed with a series of treated and haunted 78's, it's Isotopica. Tyszko demonstrates the correct way to see PortuguesePasteis de nata
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 archive feature, on Classical tabla player Ustad Allah Rakah, then further horse and hound field recordings from the beating heart of Tory Britain, all topped off with a lovely brass band.
happy? 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 by Jaques Derida, most specifically in His 1993 work Specters of Marx. He talks of Sprits, of Haunting and Le Fantôme in some excerpts from the fabulous and obscurantist Film Ghost Dance by Ken McMullan. We craftily mix this with a selection of attenuated 78's, sprinkle the recording with some brief frieze conversations, and so on till next week, when we hopefully bring you some more.
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 the most ambitious collections of the 20th century. Henry Wellcome's interest was the history of medicine in a broad sense and included subjects like alchemy or witchcraft, but also anthropology and ethnography. Since Henry Wellcome’s death in 1936, the Wellcome Trust has been responsible for maintaining the Library's collection and funding its acquisitions
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 meaning on Niet
Dudley Sutton, Joan Littlewood, The Soviet Union, Sheffield, The Committee, Dr Chicago all mixed together, like a family, it's isotopica Dudley Sutton (far left as ever), in a still from Ken Russell's The Devils, with Michael Gothard and Vanessa Redgrave Mr sutton's Door
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 containing the archive of my long dead Brother Stefan Tyszko one of countless millions of images at this phenomenal archive
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 trips to kabul with Pippa Small, And finally wizz around Hyde Park with a delightful and singing Lilly, who happens to be an 8 year old girl and is sitting in the basket on my bike scorpion brand heroin ready to go
Hanging somewhere between life and death, the ICU episode is perhaps a simple countdown, a meditation, or an outright provocation? hanging somewhere between life and death, ICU is a simple countdown
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 little too you f Oh
The One in which i speak with Duncan Smith of ACAVA the london based artist studio charity
sink sunk 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........ this manipulated image of teenage simon tyszko, taken from the back page of an early edition of Mute digital critique
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 and the story from the hive mind was taped across the bar and onto the walls. a beautiful day captured here in images and an hours worth of live recordings click images for slideshow
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 revolutionary musical, wilhelm reich, and finally we end with some dubbbbbbbbbbb mao mao chairman mao
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 Houdini. Like many people, Houdini desperately wanted to believe that Spiritualism exists, that we can communicate with the spirits. The loss of his mother was devastating to him, and he sought comfort in the advice of the spirit mediums of the day. Unfortunately, many of those mediums were pure frauds, using magic tricks to fool the public into thinking the spirits were speaking through them. Of course, Houdini recognized tricks when he saw them, and decided to devote half of his stage act to duplicating the methods used by the mediums, exposing the frauds to the public. This pitted the famous magician against the popular mediums of the day, including Margery Condon. The exposure of Margery's methods became a large part of Houdini's show, right up until the end of his life. But just because Houdini was skeptical did not mean that he was a complete disbeliever. On the contrary. Despite his skepticism, Houdini and Bess promised each other that whoever died first would try to contact the other "from the other side". He and Bess devised a secret message, a code phrase that would be used. The phrase was one they had used years before in their vaudeville mindreading act. The message was, "Rosabelle- answer- tell-pray, answer- look- tell- answer, answer- tell". Bess' wedding band bore the inscription "Rosabelle", the name of the song she sang in her act when they first met. The other words correspond to a secret spelling code used to pass information between a magician and his assistant during a mentalism act. Each word or word pair equals a letter. The word "answer" stood for the letter "B", for example."Answer, answer" stood for the letter "V". Thus, the Houdinis' secret phrase spelled out the word "BELIEVE". After Houdini died in 1926, Bess began the tradition of holding a séance on the death annivarsary to see whether Houdini, the Man No Jail Could Hold, could indeed escape from death. These séances, of course, provided rich publicity, and Bess was dedicated to promoting the Houdini name. In early 1929, a very ill Bess was approached by "Rev." Arthur Ford, a young and eager medium. Within weeks, Ford triumphantly announced that he had successfully delivered the correct message to Houdini's widow. It did not take long for the press to discover that Ford's claim was a hoax; and that Bess had inadvertently revealed the message to several reporters a full year before. In 1936, the "Final Séance" was held on the roof of the Knickerbocker Hotel in Los Angeles. Ten years was enough, and Bess admitted that she had never received the message from Houdini. But that was not the actual final séance. The magic fraternity quickly took on the task of conducting the annual séances, with numerous notable magicians heading the table, including Walter Gibson, Houdini's ghostwriter. The group photo of the 1948 séance at the left shows Walter Gibson, Sidney Radner, Bob Lund, Litska Raymond and Chrystal Dunninger at the table. Despite all of the effort, attention and interest, Houdini has apparently not spoken to anyone since he breathed his last earthly words to his brother Hardeen on Halloween night in 1926. "Magic information provided courtesy of MagicTricks.com." another graveyard
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 an image most familiar from my childhood trips to eastern Europe in the 1960's
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 film Performance, after which we veer sideways into last weeks end piece character 60’s avant-garde sound artist Alvin Lucier, this time he is performing and then discussing some of his work, and at some point he segues back into the fabulous Dr. Chicago character and then back into Artist Lucier, at which point i ask you to really meditate upon where one begins and another actually ends…… Patty Hearst, Captain Beefheart and some 78’s move us towards a sound recording of the security at the Really Free School and we limp toward the end of our hour with disgracefully disgraced sex therapist Wilhelm Reich or at least his Wife..... who's that?
An Excerpt from a 15 hour performance by the obscure, Dangerous and Influential Austrian (stateless?) Artist Otto Leipzig Has Anyone seen Otto Lately?
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 minimalist european experimental theatre from the 1970's that may or may not become a film piece directed by tyszko. Dudley also gives us a reading of one of his new poetry pieces called 'the shitty committee". we can also see this beautiful film of dudley reading one of his poems in the grounds of the chelsea arts club
This is the episode in which the computer crashed and i threw something together at the last moment. never the less, it's isotopica a hackintosh computer, out of its box, working fine
a delicious chemistry 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 B movie striptease (sweet skin), sideways we move to west london and a man who’s advert i have seen on a tree for years discusses his psychic talents under the wing at phlight. Burroughs struts his stuff in Ah pook the destroyer, Gainsbourg zigs zags us to a father and son duet in the streets of Lhassa after which we land in 1950’s Holland to discover how Kodak film is made (in dutch). You call everybody darling is a seventy eight i recorded for a girl friend whom did as it said on the record label as we head back to striptease and further 60’s romp with Peter cook singing the hauntingly stylish theme of Bedazzled. Next we learn how sound is added to max fleicher cartoons, segued into two palestinian radio clips which in turn become a horrific 1950’s anti gay propaganda clip which could so easily be the same today in far too many places. I finish with a 1930;s hawaiian 78 and plug for the show
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 the Welcome Library with a brief excerpt of a discursive tour of the shelves with rogue enthusiast David Ellis, Somewhere in the mix is Dan Langton as Madam Daniella, and today we tail off with a few words from Dr Chicago pippa small in fiendish disguise
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 known for his development of drone music. Both his proto-Fluxus and "minimal" compositions question the nature and definition of music and often stress elements of performance art.
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 waterways. We get buzzed by a speedboat full of nasty drunks and keep good spirits at this potentially fatal rudeness. john and i in an east end pie shop, on route to the open countryside via the grand union canal and john's house boat
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 can mean in contemporary life. In doing so we’ve made lists, played games, spoken gibberish, stayed silent, made a mess, dressed up, stripped down, confessed to it all, performed magic tricks, told jokes, clowned around, played dead, got drunk, told stories and performed for six, twelve and even 24 hours at a stretch. The work we make is always a kind of conversation or negotiation. We’re interested in making performances that excite, frustrate, challenge, question and entertain. We’re interested in confusion as well as laughter. It’s seriously playful work and we’re still trying to answer our questions about theatre and performance – about what those things might be for us and what kinds of dialogue they can open with contemporary audiences.