Isotopica: The Resonance Series – Isotopica

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

Artists Michael Curran and Ellis Parkinson in conversation.

The scale of what's happening has temporarily blown my fuses, and being painful aware of the need to get programming right and my unpreparedness for this.... I am broadcasting a stopgap program of beautiful sounds for brutal times

This week's programme faces towards Gaza, the unspeakable, the unimaginable, but the reality of what's happening day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute.... is unimaginable.

 I present these remixed archive programs as imageless witness, in which our imaginations may fill in the ‘unimaginable’ forms. They comprise a series of live streams recorded from Gaza over the past several years, focusing on the sounds of armed…

Lacuna, blank space, Silent void of the unknown, Whispers yet untold. I don’t care what the people might say, people might say I’m gonna keep all love, I love this way, love this wayI don’t care what the people might…

isotopica broadcast 30 July 2023 It’s going to be a happy year in Britain this year in the future. It’s going to be a happy year in Britain this year in the future. It’s going to be a happy year…

This week Simon Tyszko brings us an extended and captivating work in progress from Berlin based Estonian Composer Elo Masing, exploring post-human and cross-species themes, and commissioned for performance in Switzerland in the coming weeks. This preview has been remixed, attenuated,…

This week Simon Tyszko  (again) channels Mark Fisher and Jacques Derrida, within a composition  of texture and spectrality of (Vinyl) Surface Noise, and extended through copious echos. Our working title……….: Spectral Snap, Crackle, Pop, and Echo. Simon Tyszko this week takes Isotopica further into the mysteries…

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.

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…

An engaged post-human episode today, flowing naturally from our recent cross-species collaborations with Elo Masing and her avian friends, ‘Kakaduu,’ in Berlin. These explorations have deepened our sensitivity to the beings around us—how long we have lived in the dark!…

exchange | ɪksˈtʃeɪndÊ’, É›ksˈtʃeɪndÊ’ |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…

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 Zigmun...

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.  …

The Train Rolls On. Chris Marker’s 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…

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,…

From Chile to Chatham both haunted and alive. Some field recordings and ambient sounds from summer 2019. A zoom recorder balanced just below the pendulum of an ancient yet working grandfather clock in a central room of a venerable Kent…

A Radio impression of VOCALIS, an irregular performance event at the delicious Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall London. VOCALIS places emphasis on giving voice in many forms; sharing ideas, drawing on collective memory and Beaconsfield’s long engagement with text, time-based/live art, performance and sound.  Informal and…

99.7% scientific consensus 414 parts of CO2 per million, the highest in earths history. Once in a lifetime weather events every week. Mass extinction and loss of natural habitat happening now. Short term profits in place of life as we…

A play on words Zoe Zarkovsi and Simon Tyszko engage in Word play or wordplay (also: play-on-words) being a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the…

Today’s program is a conversation and absolutely not a documentary… as the sheer longevity and variety of Anne’s practice utterly defies that within a 55 minute radio slot… We are in a walking conversation in annes recent exhibition in a…

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…

Ken Livingstone ……is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until…

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…