Podcast
special circumstance – Isotopica
Hosted by Simon Tyszko · EN
experimental radio by simon tyszko
11episodes
Episodes
Newest firstAll episodes
Fused in the Face of… Beautiful sounds for brutal times
Nov 13, 202300:59:18Tap to summarizeFinding myself with fuses blown and a broadcast deadline fast approaching… as the Israeli war on the people of Gaza builds a macabre momentum, with Western Governments standing proudly by as Israel methodically executes textbook war crimes and crimes against humanity…… I ask myself, “what should this artist do”. The scale of events in Palestine have temporarily blown my fuses. Source
Transcribe →Death Drones Droning for White Men Fun
Nov 13, 202300:58:23Tap to summarizeHello, good evening. It’s Sunday night. This is me, Simon Tyszko, and this is Isotopica here on Resonance 104.4 FM. This week’s programme faces towards Gaza, the unspeakable, the unimaginable, but the reality of what’s happening day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute. I could approach this programme, reading lists of numbers, statistics, details of horrors, yet I’m sure… Source
Transcribe →Zanana – Sounds of War from the Gaza Strip
Oct 19, 2023Tap to summarizeI present these remixed archive programs as imageless witness, in which our imaginations may fill in the ‘unimaginable’ forms. They comprise a series of live streams recorded from Gaza over the past several years, focusing on the sounds of armed surveillance drones known as zanana (buzzing or noise), which hover day and night over the captive Palestinians. We also hear harrowing testament… Source
Transcribe →Resonant Lacunae
Oct 5, 202300:58:03Tap to summarizeLacuna, blank space, Silent void of the unknown, Whispers yet untold. I don’t care what the people might say, people might say I’m gonna keep all love, I love this way, love this way I don’t care what the people might say, people might say I’m gonna keep all love, I love this way I don’t care what the people might say, people might say I’m gonna keep all love, I love this way… Source
Transcribe →It’s Going To Be A Happy Year In Britain In The Future as the world burns summer special
Oct 3, 202300:58:34Tap to summarizeisotopica broadcast 30 July 2023 It’s going to be a happy year in Britain this year in the future. It’s going to be a happy year in Britain this year in the future. It’s going to be a happy year in Britain this year in the future. It’s going to be a happy year in Britain, this year in the future. It’s going to be a happy year in Britain, this year in the future. Source
Transcribe →Rhyzomaticaly More Than Human with Elo Masing
Oct 3, 202300:58:15Tap to summarizeThis week Simon Tyszko brings us an extended and captivating work in progress from Berlin based Estonian Composer Elo Masing, exploring post-human and cross-species themes, and commissioned for performance in Switzerland in the coming weeks. This preview has been remixed, attenuated, affected, and finally reassembled by Isotopica especially for Resonance 104.4fm. Source
Transcribe →spectral snap crackle pop and echo
Oct 3, 202300:58:12Tap to summarizeThis week Simon Tyszko (again) channels Mark Fisher and Jacques Derrida, within a composition of texture and spectrality of (Vinyl) Surface Noise, and extended through copious echos. Our working title……….: Spectral Snap, Crackle, Pop, and Echo. Simon Tyszko this week takes Isotopica further into the mysteries of recent experimentations… Source
Transcribe →Nightingale walks in a Berlin Park
May 30, 202200:58:49Tap to summarizeIsotopica this week was recorded just three days ago (27th. May 2022) in a (secret) Berlin park. Simon Tyszko was in conversation with comPoser Elo Masing, accompanied by some songs from Berlin’s legendary visiting nightingales, in this walking field recording. Source
Transcribe →Love, sex, relationships, and the patriarchy………
Feb 7, 202200:59:04Tap to summarizeIn this episode we meet death and death falls in love with us, and despite her parent’s plans Grazia also falls for Death, and Death falls for Grazia, her fiancé get’s confused and perhaps we find ourselves in a love hexagon…. or some other equally complex shape. Source
Transcribe →Sign Waves for Cats and Dogs (and other people too)
Feb 1, 202200:58:19Tap to summarizeAn engaged post-human episode today, flowing naturally from our recent cross-species collaborations with Elo Masing and her avian friends, ‘Kakaduu,’ in Berlin. These explorations have deepened our sensitivity to the beings around us—how long we have lived in the dark! They’ve awakened us to the possibilities of direct engagement through sound, without words, with the non-human world. Source
Transcribe →