Isotopica: The Resonance Series – Isotopica

Ingredients. An impending anniversary of revolution, one of the great films of the 20C, an assembled group of musicians, some professional, some not, a beautifully restored 150yr old cinema, a mastermind or two. Mix the ingredients without any rehearsal or predetermination (in the style of Cardew‘s scratch Orchestra), screen the film and improvise (with collaboration from the audience). Enjoy.

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Dartmouth professor and astrophysicist Stephon Alexander describes his jazz epiphany as occasioned by a complex diagram Coltrane gave legendary jazz musician and University of Massachusetts professor Yusef Lateef in 1967. “I thought the diagram was related to another and seemingly unrelated field of study—quantum gravity,” he writes in a Business Insider essay on his discovery…

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mind control through sound… beta and gamma radiation…. a radioactive thunderstorm… past life regression…. and much much more on isotopica…. like wow!

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we prepared a saucepan, and played it as a semi autonomous instrument by lighting and adjusting the gas. we added a partial recording of a new text by jimmy fox (16 and a half)… we then added some wax cylinder recordings and other sound items, we treated this all with a complex array of digital effects, and then mixed the various sound files into todays edition of isotopica.

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simon tyszko in conversation with dudley sutton, in which dudley tells us about his experience of the english middle class, censorship and the queen…

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a field recording of a moving event in bishops park fulham at a memorial for the local lives lost and the wider struggle of the international brigade in their historic fight against the facists in spain. the memorial was placed by the socialist council in 2007. the event recorded here marks the anniversary of The Battle of Jarama (February 6–27, 1937), which was an attempt by General Francisco…

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as britain heads towards the cultural cliff edge of the foul brexit, isotopica considers this fate with a kind of ‘carry on’ number stations edition…. early edison wax cylinders, field recordings and judiciously selected samples make up this edition, as well as a world premiere of ‘ode to brexit’ by yours truly.

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another long slow one, a glimpse of an even longer pice in progress, filmic reference, field recordings, spectral effects, and moods…….

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sometimes a piece of music just grabs the moment and right now for me it is la vie moderne by Léo Ferré,who was a French-born Monégasque poet and composer, and a dynamic and controversial live performer, whose career in France dominated the years after the Second World War until his death…and also we start the broadcast with Golden Dark, the haunting new collaboration between elo masing and…

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