Experimental radio, sonic detours, and cultural curiosity, with Simon Tyszko broadcast on Resonance FM, London’s most delicious Arts Radio Station
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:50 — 78.9MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreIn 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…
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Podcast: Download (104.2MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreAn 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.
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:53 — 69.7MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreIn 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
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:01 — 96.2MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreThe 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…
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Podcast: Download (81.4MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreThe dead months of the new year can just disappear under grey skies or can be a magical time for travel or sleep. Either way this episode of isotopica takes elements of both to weave a seasonal sonic detour. playlist theme tune and excerpts from Viva la Muerte (Long Live Death)-1971-Fernando Arrabal Shadowed Forest: by softspace…
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:48 — 82.5MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreLost 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 we end up today with a tribute to Ravi Shankar…
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:42 — 106.9MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreDon’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…
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 58:54 — 87.7MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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 studio including the loss of…
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:26 — 93.8MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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 opium. remixed over a soundtrack…
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:57 — 137.5MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreIs 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…
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:54 — 111.0MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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, gently mixed to a distant…
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:51 — 110.6MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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 by ancient felt tip pens…
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 58:40 — 108.6MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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 Lisbon Open House Event, the…
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 58:45 — 108.4MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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 Rakah, then further horse and…
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:00 — 108.7MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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 work Specters of Marx.  He…
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:00:00 — 110.2MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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. Henry Wellcome’s interest was the…
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:11 — 108.4MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:10 — 109.1MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreDudley Sutton, Joan Littlewood, The Soviet Union, Sheffield, The Committee, Dr Chicago all mixed together, like a family, it’s isotopica
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Podcast: Download (111.4MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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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Podcast: Download (135.7MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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 Park with a delightful and…
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:00 — 109.1MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreHanging somewhere between life and death, the ICU episode is perhaps a simple countdown, a meditation, or an outright provocation?
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Podcast: Download (70.4MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:00:00 — 111.8MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreThe One in which i speak with Duncan Smith of ACAVA the london based artist studio charity
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Podcast: Download (112.1MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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
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Podcast: Download (111.4MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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……..
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Podcast: Download (112.8MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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 bar and onto the walls.…
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Podcast: Download (111.5MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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
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Podcast: Download (111.1MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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 exists, that we can communicate…
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Podcast: Download (114.4MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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
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Podcast: Download (137.6MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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 end piece character 60’s avant-garde…
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Podcast: Download (102.7MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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 not become a film piece…
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Podcast: Download (124.7MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | More This is the episode in which the computer crashed and i threw something together at the last moment. never the less, it’s isotopica
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Podcast: Download (138.0MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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 london and a man who’s…
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Podcast: Download (137.6MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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 tour of the shelves with…
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Podcast: Download (110.7MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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 “minimal” compositions question the nature…
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Podcast: Download (138.9MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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 and keep good spirits at…
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Podcast: Download (138.2MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | 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, played games, spoken gibberish, stayed…