Isotopica: The Resonance Series – Isotopica

i had the results of my second opinion hearing tests today (NHS vrs boots) and it seems it’s true….. Way back in the late 90’s when i first gave up drinking, i was desperate for feelings, any feelings, and this included trying to make (terrible) dance music in my home studio on headphones, with every possible output boosted beyond maximum… The result was that a year or so later the ringing had…

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today is a preview of some work being prepared for a performance at the beaconsfield 20th birthday event on thus day evening, it’s a flow drawing thoughts towards meta modern, albert einstein, michel foucault, sigmund freud, ten holt…

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Rough Notes contact me twitter @simontyszko 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…

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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).

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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!

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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…

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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) [advanced…

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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…

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UN’s François Crépeau on the refugee crisis: ‘Instead of resisting migration, let’s organise it. A more Humane world view than neo liberal media would allow… read on [ ] shortcode…

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