Isotopica

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2016 & very left wing

At the end of 2016 isotopica find’s itself politically twisted, exhausted, and for virtually the first time ever, almost stunned into a radio silence.. 

As the banal and reactionary forces breaths a foul new life into intolerance ignorance and prejudice,  we present a highly processed and viciously attenuated ultra modernist sampling from this years isotopica musical playlists to hopefully remind us all, that despite many of our heroes having died and our enemies having even greater power……..  we will always be the resistance.

Isotopica today takes a detour around Radical Voices, an exhibition of radical literature in UCL’s Senate House library with artist in residence Orlando Harrison and secret guests, we also do a little secret urban exploring via tiny book lifts around the secret shelves in the great Senate tower.

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today we are featuring

GOLDEN DARK

which.....

was born out of the serendipitous meeting of two musical dyslexics - Elo Masing and David John Hull - who had been feeling their way through seemingly radically different musical traditions: psychedelic folk and experimental new music.

The result is a strikingly original melange that cannot fail to leave the listener untouched.

golden dark

looking out as the snow that falls upon the cold winter frozen ground

the sky turns grey and the trees are bare a view i know where you cant be found

'cause i know that you belong here sweet girl eccentric golden

dark

and i believe that you possess things i forgot things i like tofind

christmas time and the rush is on, we had our day for all to beseen

i need to you to grow a little concentrate and find your thing

cause i know that you belong here sweet girl eccentric golden

dark

and i believe that you possess things i forgot things i like tofind

its conditional is all i can offer its a way after all its a

modern world

cause i know that you belong here sweet girl eccentric golden dark

and i believe that you possess things i forgot things i like to find

Martin Stone

born 11 December 1946, died November the 7th 2016 at home in his apartment in Versailles on the outskirts of Paris. He died quietly in his sleep after a year long fight against cancer and was cared for by his long term partner Lynn. Martin was an English guitarist and rare book dealer. A longtime resident of Fingest in Buckinghamshire, and latterly ParisA re-visit of 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 no winners in any pornography, it feels slightly less offensive through the patina of age

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poetry Astrid Alben

David Ellis and Simon Tyszko  groan and moan about the utter banality & sheer absurdity of brexit ad nauseam and infinitum... they try not to swear

who am eye.

Cary Grant was very excited by and fond of LSD Post unnecessary plebiscite, handed down to the uk by simply the most arrogant and incompetent prime minister we have ever experienced,  

this silly little island is in search of an identity..... like an early teenager trying on new styles and fashions engerlund, is struggling to understand what a nasty and shitty step it has taken.....  "what us", xenophobes?  what does that even mean, the plebysiteees ask...eye obviously have no  answers as such but i have made this algorithmically engineered sonic poem with a very confused cary grant to help us  s0rt it out. in this work, cary, an emigreé working for an immigrant  (Alfred Hitchock)wizz around and help us think... who are we now?  features dr lucilee bach on secret vocals

eye sea

Personally, i find the whole notion of engerlund (as it is now to be known) leaving the eu to be both absurdist and obscene.a political car crash so obvious in the making yet one this little land has sunk to embracing. morally, politically, strategically, financially, historically it is an abortion of our liberal future. 

so here is an an episode about that

 

 

cunt

 

 

It's a perfectly nice little word, a word with 800 years of history; a word used by Chaucer and by Shakespeare.  Semantically, it serves the same function as "dick" or "prick" – a signifier for a sexual organ which can also be used as a descriptor or insult, a word that is not passive, but active, even aggressive. It's the only word we have to describe the female genitalia that is neither mawkish, nor medical, nor a function of pornography.

 

 

There are no other truly empowering words for the female genitalia. 'Pussy' is nastily diminutive, as if every woman had a tame and purring pet between her legs, while the medical descriptor "vagina" refers only to a part of the organ, as if women's sexuality were nothing more than a wet hole, or "sheath" in the Latin. Cunt, meanwhile, is a word for the whole thing, a wholesome word, an earthy, dank and lusty word with the merest hint of horny threat. Cunt. It's fantastically difficult to pronounce without baring the teeth. *laurie penny new statesman 2011

 

 

Isotopica today is in conversation with Zelda Cheatle, Photographer, Curator, Academic and the woman who influenced and oversaw the rise of Fine Art photography thru her time at the Photographers gallery and her own eponymous Gallery. A fine time was had by all....

Zelda Cheatle by kurt van Steelant

photosensitive silver halide grains under an electron microscope