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Simeon ten Holt (24 January 1923 – 25 November 2012) was a Dutch contemporary classical composer.

Éliane Radigue (born January 24, 1932) is a French electronic music composer. She began working in the 1950s and her first compositions were presented in the late 1960s. Until 2000 her work was almost exclusively created on a single synthesizer, the ARP 2500 modular system and tape. Since 2001 she has composed mainly for acoustic instruments.[1] and super loopy aetherius society, the real flying saucer people, forget area 43 it all happening in fulham sw6. And a looping monologue from the excellent DOWN TERRACE (2010) plus plus plus

space men

isotopica today considers data, the glitch, the algorithm, the random, the boolean. in the age of increasingly total data the simple yes or no can take us on a journey way beyond. Perhaps the fictional biblical arc was actually an accurate image of a future where life itself is reduced to it’s binary constituents of zero and one.

We evoke this notion with some noises. (and some jazz).

pure data, a groundbreaking digital generator and manipulator

glitched jpeg from the black glove movie that has been glitched in this episode..meta. heck yes

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yummy stix

It occurred to me that much of our increasingly populous world is and can be design algorithmically, is like a flow chart, you this if that or then that if not this etc. etc.

the restaurant chain Leon is perhaps a prime example as is Haagen Das, a meaningless set of words that sound like expensive ice cream.

Leon has family style photographs that would appeal directly to the nostalgic and home missing demographic it aims at, the various elements are a carefully designed pick and mix of semiotic fishing hooks….

With everything with meaning being so devoid of meaning then the random becomes so much more precious…. the impossible sounds that glitched digital audio can produce have become a new landscape for artists to explore, much as the minimal bits in between, the negative spaces define what we have listen to in the past then the 50 hrz hum, the plugging in and out of a guitar lead become more meaningfull that the songs they interrupt.

Glitching can simply be arranging things that shouldn’t happen, or not arranging them or letting an algorithm arrange them….

Importing raw hexadecimal data into a sound editor from a text an image or even a video will produce a new world of sound more visceral than any syth….

today i have taken an episode of the magic roundabout and converted it into a digital static mixed in with a similar disassembly of a cult s&m film called black glove (something I’m recontextualising in my studio), all this mixed and muxed with some of the familiar background noises from isotoiopca Rioji ikea who preformed live in hoxton last week in a blistering style, and of course alva alto…

We Start with Das Original Oberkreuzberger Nasenflötenorchester, segue thru to the delightful Professor Edzard Ernst, World leader in evidence based research into Alt-Med treatments......out into an Estonian field recording from Elo Masing, into an attenuated and space echoed flute in test for our performance with a hanging piano at the Beaconsfield gallery 20th Birthday celebrations..... phew!

oh and we finish with the delicious and absurdist Senor Coconut.......

Virolainen kenttäpuhelin.

 

Today we relax, or sink, or wallow, in the glorious darkness of Bohren & der Club of Gore, (self described as an "unholy ambient mixture of slow jazz ballads, Black Sabbath doom and down tuned Autopsy sounds) an unusual almost single artist episode of isotopica, but....... after the shocking (or is it?) election results returning the most absurdly mendacious, illiberal, spiteful government in our history, i think we deserve nothing less.

enjoy

In conversation with the rather wonderful and total obscurantist Mr David Ellis...... Friend, collaborator, inspiration, & mystery, mostly mystery....more text to follow

Tribute to Jonas Mekas on his 90th birthday:

from Serpentine Galleries London

David Ellis and Simon Tyszko, "Detour", 2012

https://vimeo.com/55864936

Stills from Lithuanian Detour 23 with tyszko and ellis 2003(ish)

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As an artist I have, over the years attended my fair share of openings and events, a see and be seen, inhaling the rarified airs and experiencing the frisson and glamour of the big game in art. I have sold work, and met collaborators, ended up in beds and garrets, bars and restaurants. I have played the game and worked the rooms........ Yet as i have moved away from academia and the anonymous invitations multiply, the vibrant pulse of the hottests blooded galleries perhaps, becomes somewhat harder to feel.

Therefore today i am In light conversation with the delightful Patrick Fetherstonhaugh, Founder (along with brother Tristram) of GalleriesNow.net, which is a curated guide to the best art exhibitions at galleries in London, New York, Paris, Berlin and around the world.

patrick and tristram

indica-gallery-1968dunbar-miles

a true rebel

A contemporary mystery, sub-judice, too hot to handle, unrepeatable.. yes, it's Isotopica investigative reporting at it's very best and most oblique.......

Sometimes, nothing is better than everything!

Isotopica

an episode....

nothingness

In the week of the Murders in Paris, starting at the offices of satirical Magazine Charlie Hebdoo, Isotoptica  considers, with an etherial broadcast, the  issues of contemporary free speech, an absolute hypocrisy , insane illiberalism, and the complex meta politics of late game global neoliberal capitalism....... fuuuuuuuuck!

No Future?

 

A conversation with arch adventurer David Ellis is followed by an algorithmically  generated chromatic scale composition. 

Gentle