Isotopica

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 twins (not mine), a car crash of a studio including the loss of a $50,000 piece of work into a skip by a bizarre and bullying caretaker,  the harsh emotional reality of loosing a planned future home and family along with 4 acres of prime welsh woodland to an alcoholic sister along with my nephew, closest family member and friend, who was killed by the sheer stupidity of a hippy shaman in a sham of an ayahuasca ceremony.

Pat, my sister about a year before alcoholism killed her

I took to my bed for about four months, a smoking jacket, a laptop, some java script and many lovely friends, kept me just about afloat,

I kid you jingle bells or not?

and of course, i meant without the jacket and without smoking

Combine this with a Tory x factor very little Britain of shopping malls crowds like turkeys looking forward to Christmas, oh yes, so this is Christmas… And just what will this sound like?

*after a life time of frequent visits from the black dog and her puppies, Tyszko wishes to make clear it is simply business as usual at theculture art practice, another day another death wish, but the mischief goes relentlessly on and on... xx

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 twins (not mine), a car crash of a studio including the loss of a $50,000 piece of work into a skip by a bizarre and bullying caretaker,  the harsh emotional reality of loosing a planned future home and family along with 4 acres of prime welsh woodland to an alcoholic sister along with my nephew, closest family member and friend, who was killed by the sheer stupidity of a hippy shaman in a sham of an ayahuasca ceremony.

I took to my bed for about four months, a smoking jacket, a laptop, some java script and many lovely friends, kept me just about afloat,

I kid you jingle bells or not?

Combine this with a Tory x factor very little Britain of shopping malls crowds like turkeys looking forward to Christmas, oh yes, so this is Christmas… And just what will this sound like?

*after a life time of frequent visits from the black dog and her puppies, Tyszko wishes to make clear it is simply business as usual at theculture art practice, another day another death wish, but the mischief goes relentlessly on and on… xx

addictive to even the purest soul

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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 the bathtub manufacture of heroin from raw opium.

remixed over a soundtrack including rare arabic 78 shellac recordings and avante guard electronica, this episode is perhaps the perfect product

the sheer banality of domestic addiction

 

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 the bathtub manufacture of heroin from raw opium.

remixed over a soundtrack including rare arabic 78 shellac recordings and avante guard electronica, this episode is perhaps the perfect product

 

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 Vermouth to the mix with the holiest myths of Catholicism, being the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary.

Deliciously dry humour, dry gin, and a very catholic blasphemy.

Originally broadcast live broadcast from the London Science Museum as part of Dr Aleks Kolkowski's "The Exponential Horn: In Search of Perfect Sound".

While acting as the London Science Museum's artist in residence, Aleks discovered a dust covered magnetic object on a store room shelf, which he correctly identified as the remaining driver from the legendary Exponential Horn, the worlds largest loudspeaker, and a technological wonder of it's day. The Denholm Horn as it was widely known, named after the director of the museum at the time, measured 27 feet (8.23m) in length with a cross-section that curved exponentially from 1 1/16 inches (27mm) to a massive 7-foot-1-inch square (2.16m sq.) at the horn mouth.

It became a popular lunchtime destination for working Londoner's who would bring their sandwiches to eat while enjoying the unparalleled clarity and depth of this magnificent speaker, mostly playing the BBC home service.

This episode contains a punchline

 

playlistAnanda Lahari  clogsHeijastuva ØAnksiolyytti ØArctic Hysteria  The Residents013 +- 6.18   Christian FenneszCarillon Michael HarrisonAnimus RedhookerMinor Key Simon tyszko

This week: we listen to an early Isotopica 'durational' composition by Simon Tyszko circa 2014 featuring Luis Buñuel's legendary recipe for the perfect dry Martini,

Un Chien Andalou (French pronunciation: ​[œ̃ ʃjɛ̃ ɑ̃dalu], An Andalusian Dog

from the 1929 film by Buñuel and Dalisimon tyszko ' worry'

Perhaps an underlying theme for this episdoe and one echoed by the text and 'punchline' narrated by tyszko at the end Piss Christ is a 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano

* Buñuel, The Virgin Mary and some Gin is an extended minimalist existential mediation on the nature of class, revolution and the perfect martini with master filmmaker Luis Buñuel’s magnificent musings the perfect recipe for this classic cocktail compared to the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary.

*this episode contains a punchline

playlist

Ananda Lahari  clogs

Heijastuva Ø

Anksiolyytti Ø

Arctic Hysteria  The Residents

013 +- 6.18   Christian Fennesz

Carillon Michael Harrison

Animus Redhooker

Minor Key Simon tyszko

 

 

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 to the old school violence of Kray Twins, gently mixed to a distant soundtrack from Jack Nitzsche, Skip James et al.

PAYPHONE, NOTTING HILL GATE, 1960 'THE LAY ABOUT LIFE' - PHOTO ESSAYTERENCE DONOVAN (1936-1996)

Photographed by his brother Stefan,Tyszko modeled the very first space hopper in Europe for the Daily Express in 1968.This glamorous high point has never been matched,and he has returned to this path in Holland park at various points in his life,looking perhaps, for echoes of those iconic momentsand the sixpence he still bitterly remembers loosing.

 

Anita Pallenberg and James Fox

 

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 to the old school violence of Kray Twins, gently mixed to a distant soundtrack from Jack Nitzsche, Skip James et al.

 

 

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 through to present day london town.

Marks left by ancient felt tip pens on rocks provide us with clues with which to form our conclusions.

Sounds on a wire from Alvin Lucier, parenthesize our discussions.

Alvin LucierStill and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas

 

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 through to present day london town.

Marks left by ancient felt tip pens on rocks provide us with clues with which to form our conclusions.

Sounds on a wire from Alvin Lucier, parenthesize our discussions.