special circumstance – Isotopica

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…

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,…

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…

"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).

we prepared a saucepan,and played it as a semi autonomous instrumentby 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…

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 1960’s adventures in New york with Joan Littlewood,…

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