Category: Isotopica: The Resonance Series

Sonic detours with Simon Tyszko on Resonance FM, London’s most delicious Arts Radio Station
December 18, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

And So This Is Chrismas?

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 58:54 — 87.7MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreIsotopica 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…

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December 6, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

Home Heroin Manufacture (out takes, in takes, and all)

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:26 — 93.8MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | More 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…

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November 20, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

Buñuel, The Virgin Mary and some Gin

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:57 — 137.5MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | More* Buñuel, The Virgin Mary and some Gin is an extended minimalist existential mediation on the nature of class, revolution and the perfect martini with master filmmaker Luis Buñuel’s magnificent musings the perfect recipe for this classic cocktail compared to the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. *this episode contains a…

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November 13, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

Performance

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:54 — 111.0MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MorePaul 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,…

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November 6, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

Draw A Line Between Two Points

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:51 — 110.6MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreThis 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…

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November 1, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

herbert wright tries to get a sensible word in

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 58:40 — 108.6MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | More 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…

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October 23, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

From My Bed To The Field (international)

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 58:45 — 108.4MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreAs 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…

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October 16, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

Hauntological Frieze

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:00 — 108.7MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | More 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…

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October 13, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

A Wellcome Library Walk with David Ellis

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:00:00 — 110.2MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreSerial 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.…

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October 10, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

Sutton Goes Soviet

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:11 — 108.4MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreStage 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
September 25, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

It Was The officers; Dudley Sutton, the story

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:10 — 109.1MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreDudley Sutton, Joan Littlewood, The Soviet Union, Sheffield, The Committee, Dr Chicago all mixed together, like a family, it’s isotopica  
September 21, 2012 / / culture feeds

A walk Through The getty Picture Library With david Ellis

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Podcast: Download (111.4MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreDavid 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  …

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September 21, 2012 / / culture feeds

The one that starts with a Yellow Fingered Girl

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Podcast: Download (135.7MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreStarting 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…

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September 18, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

eye sea yew

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:00 — 109.1MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreHanging somewhere between life and death, the ICU episode is perhaps a simple countdown, a meditation, or an outright provocation?
September 11, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

UF 0h!

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Podcast: Download (70.4MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreThe 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  
September 8, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

where do studios come from?

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:00:00 — 111.8MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreThe One in which i speak with Duncan Smith of ACAVA the london based artist studio charity
September 8, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

some jazz and an exotic dancer

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Podcast: Download (112.1MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | More 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
September 8, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

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September 7, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

a framing, some jazz and a word from our archicture correspondent, and some jazz

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Podcast: Download (111.4MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | Morethis 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……..
September 7, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

The Writers room with Craig Clark

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Podcast: Download (112.8MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreA 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…

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September 7, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

some black panthers and ends with dub

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Podcast: Download (111.5MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreWe 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
September 7, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

A Somber detour

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Podcast: Download (111.1MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreFeaturing 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…

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September 7, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

Badder Meinhof, A Trial Remixed

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Podcast: Download (114.4MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreA 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
September 7, 2012 / / culture feeds

If Jagger were French?

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Podcast: Download (137.6MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | More 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…

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September 7, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

A Sample Performance By Otto Leipzig

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Podcast: Download (111.4MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreAn Excerpt from a 15 hour performance by the obscure, Dangerous and Influential Austrian (stateless?) Artist Otto Leipzig
September 7, 2012 / / culture feeds

A treat with Dudley Sutton

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Podcast: Download (102.7MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreIsotopica 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…

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September 7, 2012 / / culture feeds

The Episode In Which The Computer Crashed And I Threw Something Together At The Last Moment

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September 7, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

striptease

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Podcast: Download (138.0MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | More 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…

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September 7, 2012 / / culture feeds

We Start The Series Laughing

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Podcast: Download (137.6MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | More 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…

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September 4, 2012 / / culture feeds

The One With La Monty Young

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Podcast: Download (110.7MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreThis 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…

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September 3, 2012 / / culture feeds

isotopica: the one with a yellowed fingered girl

September 2, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

A Row On The Thames With John Kenton

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Podcast: Download (138.9MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreThis 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…

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September 2, 2012 / / Isotopica: The Resonance Series

In Conversation With Forced Entertainment

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Podcast: Download (138.2MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreSimon 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,…

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September 2, 2012 / / culture feeds

a landing in kabul

The unimaginably beauty and remoteness of the Hindu Kush Mountains form the perfect setting for flawed jewel that is Kabul. Few landings in the world equal the visceral otherness of this ancient destination. video 12.31 simon tyszko