Isotopica: The Resonance Series – Isotopica

Free of One’s Melancholy Self Often prescribed to nervous housewives, a quaalude was something between a sleeping pill and a sedative. First synthesized in the late fifties, by 1965 ’ludes were being manufactured by William H. Rorer Inc., a Pennsylvania pharmaceutical company. The name “quaalude” is both a play on “Maalox,” another product manufactured by William H. Rorer Inc.

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This week the third marlboro man dies of smoking related disease, therefore we listen to unrelated euphonics and a malboro advert Poly Styrene joins us for a very youthful chat…

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Welcome to Foul Britannia a country of happy turkeys working hard for a happy Christmas Things couldn’t be better for the Happy couple above, their class has stolen trillion of pounds of public money, while the public from whose pockets it has come, turn on each other in small minded nationalism. It’s class comedy of the highest order. The safeguards and frameworks for the majority…

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THe first in the all new 2014 season of isotopica begins with a delicious sample of Richard Burton as Leon Trotsky, the relevance of which, hopefully never quite becomes clear. This was taken from a sadly badly made 1972 film by Joseph Losey titled, The Assassination Of Trotsky  As ever more will be revealed…

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 FIRST Special guest Jessica Jones tells us about the transformation of her Cancer diagnosis and relationship breakup, into a blog, a book, and now world wide publication NEXT I play various tracks by suicide, the band whom i was lucky enough to be out front sound engineer for a brief but dazzling spell in the very early eiighties Suicide is an American electronic protopunk musical duo…

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ATOMS A Sonic Journey With Terrence Mckenna (Just what did i do to his already unusual voice?) set to a delightful raga By Shiv Kumar Sharma entitled Charukeshi make of it what you will (as ever) below are details of the Breaking Convention A Multidisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness. london july 12-14th [field name=xframe]…

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Isotopica at 3pm – Dance For Radio June 25th, 2013 · Isotopica at 3pm is a series of cultural sonic detours with artist Simon Tyszko. Today: Dance For Radio. Isotopica considers the body in the context of contemporary dance and performance. From DV8 through Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Stuart Brisley and then home with a classically dance trained body work session on Tyszko by dancer…

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Todays detour starts at the setting up of the unfunfair at beaconsfield gallery in lambeth, an intervention in the large arch space, a test bed, and a quick show of this years studio works [field name=bframe] Franz Anton Mesmer (May 23, 1734 – March 5, 1815) sometimes incorrectly referred to as Friedrich Anton Mesmer, was a German physician with an interest in astronomy, who theorised that there…

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episodes above are 1 the visit to phlight 2 the trip to leeds CHANCE:Â A THROW OF THE DICE Leeds MA Art and Design have worked with the artist and broadcaster Simon Tyszko. His practice is an example of how spoken transmission (radio broadcast), and object making (specifically the installation of objects) also adjust our experience to the living-space of art, co-extensive in public and…

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