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Isotopica is an experimental radio series with each episode having a unique theme and flavour, starting off at point A and hopefully, ending up in another alphabet altogether. Ingredients are a mixture of sonic essays, experimental sound and music, psychogeographic and notional detours, special guests, field and location recordings, interviews, conversations, critical analysis, plus Gallery installation works, and all sprinkled with cultural marxist toppings. Uncertain terms and conditions may apply.

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Fused in the Face of… Beautiful sounds for brutal times 59:18

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Finding myself with fuses blown as the Israeli war on the people of Gaza builds a macabre momentum, and Western Governments proudly stand by Israel as it executes textbook war crimes and crimes against humanity…… 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 Bodies lie among the rubble of the Saqallah family house following an Israeli air strike in the south west of Gaza City, 19 October 2023. EFE-EPA/MOHAMMED SABER ATTENTION EDITORS GRAPHIC CONTENT…

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Death Drones Droning for White Men Fun 58:23

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The bodies of children killed in an Israeli strike, lie on the floor at the morgue of the Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir Balah in the central Gaza Strip on October 22, 2023, as battles continue between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. (Photo by Mahmud HAMS / AFP) (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images) Hello, good evening. It’s Sunday night. This is me, Simon Tyszko, and this is Isotopica here on Resonance 104.4 FM. 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. I could approach this programme, reading lists of numbers, statistics, details of horrors, yet I’m sure, at least I hope, you’ve all heard plenty of these. They are unimaginable. I could talk about the politics, yet I hope you’re aware of the politics of the situation as it stands. So, today’s edition, I’ve taken a number of audio video live streams which are available online if you care to look. These ones actually come from Al Jazeera, a news source which I find increasingly precise, accurate and genuine without any of the ambiguity which we see even in allegedly left leaning papers like The Guardian. Today’s programme is made up of a number of these live streams which are fixed point cameras with microphones capturing live the bombardment of Gaza, a bombardment with some of the most sophisticated and intense weaponry available in the world, and in this instance being deployed against civilians in a very small space in open prison. All of these things, you know! I have layered these recordings. And I have used various effects to bring out harmonics and resonant frequencies, which I’m allowing to play against each other, creating sounds within the sounds and to an extent rhythms within the sounds. I’m not doing this as an entertainment, I’m doing this as a way of presenting or representing the horrors that I’m experiencing. I could attempt to talk a lot more, I could read off endless lists of numbers, the number of children that die per hour, the number of adults that die per hour, the number of people that die per day. I could quote the estimated numbers of people who are buried under the rubble and I could detail the estimates of the number of those people that are still alive. Yet I take it back to my experience of one particular news piece in which I saw a young girl, a child, maybe seven years old, eight years old, who was found by rescuers, possibly just neighbours who lived within or nearby the block which was demolished by extraordinary high explosive weapons, weapons probably provided by Britain or America, and which destroyed her home, killing many and trapping many too. And as this young girl was found and I had to pause the video, I had to sob. Faced with the reality of one child trapped in that situation, and with knowledge that adults across the world had joined in some kind of consensus and decided to do this to that one child, an act that can be multiplied and extrapolated over time, over decades, can be projected into the future, and as it goes on hopefully I will continue to sob, whenever I come across a reality that I cannot escape from, that I can’t step to one side of…. I feel calmed knowing that I am still capable of Compassion, that it is reality there. So summing up….. for the next hour we’re going to be listening to a composition made of live streamed audio recordings from Gaza during the Israeli bombardment of the civilian population. Multiple streams, creating multiple sounds, building to a crescendo, fading out into some music by the experimental musician, sound artist Pauline Oliveros, which will take us to the end. At which point I’ll join you again and say goodbye. So now, Gaza, Isotopica, Resonance FM, bear witness…… I won’t say enjoy. The bodies of children killed in an Israeli strike, lie on the floor at the morgue of the Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir Balah in the central Gaza Strip on October 22, 2023, as battles continue between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. (Photo by Mahmud HAMS / AFP) (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images) We have been listening to Isotopica here on Resonance, 104.4 FM. Once again we have been focusing on the continued disaster, the bombardment of civilians by Israeli state in Gaza Strip. Today's program was made up of live streams taken from Al Jazeera, which were a fixed camera, fixed sound recordings of the bombardment as it continued. It was a mixture of streams taken from several days to create a composition of frequencies, of harmonies and of sonic textures as a way of representing and bearing witness to the atrocities that are continuing. Thanks for listening to Isotopica, you can see more about us on our website, theculture.net. I have been catching the news this week from Novara Media and as mentioned Al Jazeera, both really good sources. Keep safe out there, thanks for listening, hope you join us again the same time, same place. Resonance 104.4 FM, Sunday evening, 7 to 8 with me, Simon Tyszko here on Isotopica. Free Palestine.…

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Resonant Lacunae 58:03

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Lacuna, blank space, Silent void of the unknown, Whispers yet untold. 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Who is the great one who will give us foundations stronger than this? Who is the genius who will tell us a legend more ravishing than the prosaic tale which is called Life? The realisation of our perceptions of the world in the form of space and time is the only aim of our pictorial and plastic art. In them we do not measure our works with a yardstick of beauty. We do not weight them with pounds of tenderness and sentiments. The plumb line in our hands, eyes as precise as a ruler, in a spirit as thought as a compass, we construct our works as the universe constructs its own, as the engineer constructs its bridge, as the mathematician his formula of the orbits. We know that everything has its own essential image, chair, table, lamp, telephone, book, house, net. They are all entire worlds with their own written from their own orbit. That is why we in creating things take away from them the labels of their owners, all accidental and local, leaving only the reality of the constant treatments of the forces in them. Then in painting we renounce colour as a pictorial element. Colour is the idealized optical surface of objects, an exterior and superficial impression of them. Colour is accidental and it has nothing in common with the innermost essence of a thing. We affirm that the tone of a substance, i.e. its light absorbing material body is its only pictorial reality. We renounce in a line its descriptive value. In real life there are no descriptive lines. Description is an accidental trace of a man on a thing. It is not bound up with the essential life and constant structure of the body. Descriptiveness is an element of a graphic illustration and decoration. We affirm the line only as a direction of the static forces in their rhythms in the object. Colour is the idealized optical surface of objects, an exterior and superficial impression of them. Colour is the idealized optical surface of objects, an exterior and superficial impression of them. Colour is the idealized optical surface of objects, an exterior and superficial impression of them. We have been listening to an in-between edition of Isotopica here on Resonance 104.4 FM. We’re busy in pre-production for various new thematic editions of Isotopica coming up. Details to some point soon. Meanwhile you can listen in for further details and look and see on our website being www.theculture.net. This is me Simon Tyszko. Hope you enjoy today’s oblique edition of Isotopica and keep yourself firmly locked to all things resonance 104.4 FM etc. Catch you later.…

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It’s Going To Be A Happy Year In Britain In The Future as the world burns summer special 58:34

1 year ago58:34

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Rhyzomaticaly More Than Human with Elo Masing 58:15

1 year ago58:15

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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, affected, and finally reassembled by Isotopica especially for Resonance 104.4fm.…

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spectral snap crackle pop and echo 58:12

1 year ago58:12

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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 of recent experimentations, examining and pushing the boundaries of what we might consider a contemporary and avant-garde approach to dub, bringing together recordings of radio static and tuning artefacts with extended echoes, creating a unique sonic space almost free of expected gravity, both weightless, and timeless…… and with a cherry somewhere on the top. .I hope you’ll enjoy an experiment which is a composition created entirely with the snap, the crackle and the pop from vinyl recordings, from the early trip artists, trip hop artists, and the hauntologists who swarm around Mark Fisher and Jacques Derrida. Vinyl Crackle underpins much of that. And this last week was a programme about Transylvanian dub in which I went on to actually play a whole series of records, which is very unusual for Isotopica. I thought I would take it in a entirely different direction, which today is just the echo because an awful lot of this snap, crackle and the pop will be fed through very extended digital delays. Are you ready for this? I hope so. Oviously there’s an academic content, having already mentioned Derrida, we’ve mentioned Mark Fisher, and the list simply goes on and on. So why don’t we just sit back, perhaps put our feet up, perhaps not, and see if we enjoy today’s edition of snap, crackle and pop here on Isotopica with me, Simon Tyszko. I’ll probably share another word with you all after this. Creative review sonic award winning dub plate installation via Tomato/Underworld…

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Nightingale walks in a Berlin Park 58:49

3 years ago58:49

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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. Elo Masing and Vincent ************* performing a graphical score by Vincent, at a gallery event not from from Karl-Marx-Allee…

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Love, sex, relationships, and the patriarchy……… 59:04

3 years ago59:04

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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 hexagon.... or some other equally complex shape. Death plays Jenga with a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) in Bergman's classic The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet)…

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Sign Waves for Cats and Dogs (and other people too) 58:19

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Continuing our cross species experimentation (with Elo Masing in Berlin), we present today a new composition by Simon Tyszko specifically made for, and with the help of, other kinds of animals (as well as the usual Homo sapiens suspects, plus the usual conversation and cultural fillers that so define ISOTOPICA. Details watch Idoru engage with rising and falling sine waves…

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A Telephone Rings and Someone Speaks 59:06

3 years ago59:06

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exchange | ɪksˈtʃeɪndʒ, ɛksˈtʃeɪndʒ | noun 1 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 information. I have always held a fascination for the sheer magic of telephony, with the transmission of disembodied voices across unimaginable distance, combining a direct intimacy with a paradoxical anonymity, a voice speaking directly into ones ear as if relating secrets, with magical powers to connect us across great distances. I would describe this as magic in it's purest form, the transformation of base materials into new forms using the ritualised methods of science…

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walking nowhere thinking everything 58:51

5 years ago58:51

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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 Zigmund Freud's great great grandson Jimmy Fox.…

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Is it that time already? 58:53

5 years ago58:53

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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. Camus provides some words, we tune in to some intercultural networked improvised music from The Ethernet Orchestra, sample a new livestream sound work from Matthew Olden, and all as we gently muse on our world spun upside down on an unfamiliar axis. 7-8PM UTC+01:00 resonancefm.com Ethernet Orchestra is an Internet-based musical ensemble that explores intercultural improvisation through musical performances in located venues and on the web. Founded by trumpeter Roger Mills, the ensemble was formed to address the underrepresentation of the diverse musical cultures in online music making. The group combines electronic and traditional instruments, including Mongolian moron khuur (horse fiddle) and throat singing, tabla, Persian tanbur, tar, balaban, and the Japanese shakuhachi, blended with Buchla synthesizer, DX7, Ableton, voice, guitar, trumpet, and sax. Oceans between Sound is the second album by Ethernet Orchestra and covers a 4 year period of the groups performances and online jam sessions. It is free to download with artwork and CDR disc prints from the Chilean net label Pueblo Nuevo https://pueblonuevo.cl/catalogo/oceans-between-sound/…

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Plays For Horses 58:52

5 years ago58:52

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The Train Rolls On. Chris Marker’s Le Train En Marche (1971) First the eye, then the cinema, which prints the look…. A stunned episode post tory election landslide, in which we listen simultaneously, to both the French and English soundtracks, of Chris Marker's Le Train En Marche, in an attempt perhaps, to revisit, and even find a route back to, the utopian dreams and projects of both early and late twentieth century cultural marxism. The train of revolution. The train of history has not lacked reverse signals and switched points but the biggest mistake one could make was to believe that it had come to a halt. “If Chris asked you to do something you did it: There was no question”, recalls Marc Karlin in one of his last interviews before his death in 1999. ‘Chris’, needless to say, was Chris Marker, Karlin’s friend who he called ‘le maitre’. The task was to provide an English version of Marker’s recent film Le train en marche (1971) – a celebration of the Soviet era filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin and his mythical ‘kino-poezd’ – a ‘cine train’ re-fitted with cameras, editing tables and processing labs, that travelled the breadth of Russia to make films for and with the workers. Films made on the spot, in collaboration with the local people, (workers in factories, peasants in kolhozs), shot in one, day, processed during the night, edited the following day and screened in front of the very people who had participated to its making… Contrarily to the agit-prop trains which carried official propaganda from the studios to the people, here the people was his own studio. And at the very moment bureaucracy was spreading all over, a film unit could go and produce uncensored material around the country. And it lasted one year (1932)! Medvedkin saw his kino-poezd (294 days on the rails, 24,565m of film projected, 1000km covered) as a means of revolutionising the consciousness of the Soviet Union’s rural dwellers. Marker hoped his recent unearthing would incite similar democratic film-making. In tribute, Karlin and other kindred spirits in London joined Cinema Action.” There was a relationship to the Russians. Vertoz, the man and the movie camera, Medvedkin, and his agitprop Russian train; the idea of celebrating life and revolution on film, and communicating that. Medvedkin had done that by train. SLON and Cinema Action both did it by car. Getting a projector, putting films in the boot, and off you went and showed films – which we did”. The people were brought the filmmaker’s cinema, in the same way they were brought the artist’s art and the expert’s science. But in the case of this train the cinema was to become something created with contact through the people and was to stimulate them to make their own intervention. Aleksandr Medvedkin…

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Music For Birds 58:52

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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, and It's genesis within the glamorous and rarefied world of cross species art with avian tandem Kakaduu.Agapornis Fischeri, better known by the artist name Kakaduu, is originally from Central Africa and now based in Berlin, Germany. They established themselves as artists in London, UK, where they lived from 2010 to 2015. They have been active in the visual arts since 2010 and first gained recognition with the wood veneer and cardboard sculpture “Me and My Home”. Other well-known works include “My Cage” and “My Nightmares About the Cat”. Kakaduu is one of the most remarkable contemporary practitioners of environmental art in Europe, choosing to use mostly recycled material in creating artworks. They prefer figurative wood sculpture, although often also paint on different materials. Favourite media include wood, wood veneer, cardboard, and coconut shell; for painting they use recycled food. Better known paintings from the mature period include “Kakaduu Shit on Canvas”, “Kakaduu Shit on Glass”, “Kakaduu Shit on Veneer”, “Kakaduu Shit on Cupboard Door”, “Kakaduu Shit on Porcelain”, “Kakaduu Shit on A4” and “Kakaduu Shit on DVD”. Well-known artworks from the most recent output include “London”, “The Dwarf’s House on the Hill”, “We Went to See the Elephant” and “The Squirrel, the Cat and the Hare”. Kakaduu’s works have been shown at The First and Second International World Exhibition of Artist Birds. Kakaduu is represented by Gallery Zebra&Tiger. New website in progress at www.kakaduu.art. Watch this space!Scientists claim that birds’ and animals’ brains cannot discern complex intellectual objects such as music.‘‘‘ , That for them, human music is like white noise, similar to the sound of rain, waves or rustling leaves for us. That they can’t hear anything interesting in it, the same way we can’t understand what birds say to each other, all their adventures and other information they share so vividly. , ////7O>’ O>’ O<~ <Ö:::::::::=)’ This may very well be so - if during early development birds’ brains are not exposed to music and don’t learn to grasp it, they probably won’t be able to do it later. Much like a human child who, growing up in the wild without hearing any human language, wouldn’t be able to learn to speak as an adult, even when exposed to human speech. , ‘ ‘ “ ‘(o. 0060000909~.9-8.989 But it seems to us that birds’ brains can be trained to hear music; they can discern very complex intellectual and emotional objects if they’ve been exposed to them from an early age - for example if the birds have grown up in musicians’ homes. ‘, ‘ They become thoroughly unique experts on music, with their own completely unique taste, because their learning and teaching ability in the realm of sonic arts is great. If only someone saw it and knew how to use it. (i!iiii!!!!!i!¡¡¡ ‘ ‘“ “ `` , We’ve been lucky that we’ve come across two of such unique birds, who understand what’s there in the music they hear and what’s not in many respects better than humans. As choosing the right tracks for the album was much easier for them than it was for us, we gladly allowed Kakaduu to produce the record. Their enthusiastic chirping made it clear which pieces they preferred most. The album got put together quickly and insightfully and is dedicated to improving communication between birds and humans. , , O< ’ “’ О<‘ ‘ [] ф O>’ , « Ьªº–ºª Ö<’ “ This is a story about how a bird taught us to listen, see, and think, too. About something important and beautiful. And about lots of other things, too, about which you can read on Kakaduu's home page. ‘’’,, ‘ .,.,. `` ‘ ’…

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