Isotopica: The Resonance Series – Isotopica

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…

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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. …

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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…

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This week’s Isotopica features the return of our roving architecture correspondent and blueprint magazine contributing editor, Herbert Wright. Herbert tries to get a sensible word in, and does an admirable job, despite tyszko’s fixation on Portuguese culinary custard We discuss, in the loosest possible way, the first Lisbon Open House Event, the sale of Admiralty Arch, the dissolution of the…

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As a counterpoint to my determination to stay in my bed with advanced and dramatic Ennui, isotopica today features some of my previous field recordings from a home away from home, and a monkey Temple in Jaipur, an Indian language archive feature, on Classical tabla player Ustad Allah Rakah, then further horse and hound field recordings from the beating heart of Tory Britain, all topped off with a…

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In todays isotopica we have a very brief frieze special from under a duvet in West London and we also ask you to consider the concept of Hauntology as recently described online by renaissance man Mark Pilkington and academically introduced at various points by Jaques Derida, most specifically in His 1993 work Specters of Marx.  He talks of Sprits, of Haunting and Le Fantôme in some…

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Serial Digressionist David Ellis Invites Simon Tyszko for an out of hours stroll and chat, through The Wellcome Library which is founded on the collection formed by Sir Henry Wellcome (1853–1936), whose personal wealth allowed him to create one of the most ambitious collections of the 20th century. Henry Wellcome’s interest was the history of medicine in a broad sense and included subjects like…

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Stage Legend Dudley Sutton talks us through the politics and the joys of face paint and footlights circa 1957, we travel to Russia on a train, spit fish scales on the floor of a workers bar and learn the truer meaning on Niet…

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Dudley Sutton, Joan Littlewood, The Soviet Union, Sheffield, The Committee, Dr Chicago all mixed together, like a family, it’s isotopica …

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David Ellis and Tyszko, stroll around the labyrinthine shelves of the Getty Picture Library, where countless millions of prints, negatives, glass plates and every conceivable form of photographic image are stored and documented. At some point we find a trunk containing the archive of my long dead Brother Stefan Tyszko …

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