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…

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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.

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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.

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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! They’ve awakened us to the possibilities of direct engagement through sound, without words, with the non-human world.

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“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…

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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…

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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 of trans-species art research, featuring tracks from a new album entitled ‘Crane Cries’, which revolves around a live recording emulating the sounds…

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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 than 300 film soundtracks. He played for the first time on radio in 1938 with his “013” Big Band, to return on air only after the liberation of Italy in 1944.

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ben Drugs are central to my life. Just like you, I was born to a drugged mother, injected minutes after birth and repeatedly dosed throughout my childhood. My patients are simply self-medicating. And who can blame them? Their medicines (heroin, crack and alcohol) work better than mine (Prozac) at blunting life’s sharp edges Dr Ben Sessa Drugs help me get up and go to work…

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