Isotopica: The Resonance Series – Isotopica

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…

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…

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

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…

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. playlist…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Dudley Sutton, Joan Littlewood, The Soviet Union, Sheffield, The Committee, Dr Chicago all mixed together, like a family, it’s isotopica  

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…

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…

Hanging somewhere between life and death, the ICU episode is perhaps a simple countdown, a meditation, or an outright provocation?

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…

The One in which i speak with Duncan Smith of ACAVA the london based artist studio charity

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