Isotopica Simon Tyszko

Finding myself with fuses blown as the Israeli war on the people of Gaza builds a macabre momentum, and Western Governments proudly stand by Israel as it executes textbook war crimes and crimes against humanity......







The scale of what's happening has temporarily blown my fuses, and being painful aware of the need to get programming right and my unpreparedness for this.... I am broadcasting a stopgap program of beautiful sounds for brutal times







Bodies lie among the rubble of the Saqallah family house following an Israeli air strike in the south west of Gaza City, 19 October 2023. EFE-EPA/MOHAMMED SABER ATTENTION EDITORS GRAPHIC CONTENT

The bodies of children killed in an Israeli strike, lie on the floor at the morgue of the Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir Balah in the central Gaza Strip on October 22, 2023, as battles continue between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. (Photo by Mahmud HAMS / AFP) (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)







Hello, 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, at least I hope, you've all heard plenty of these.They are unimaginable.







I could talk about the politics, yet I hope you're aware of the politics of the situation as it stands.







So, today's edition, I've taken a number of audio video live streams which are available online if you care to look.These ones actually come from Al Jazeera, a news source which I find increasingly precise, accurate and genuinewithout any of the ambiguity which we see even in allegedly left leaning papers like The Guardian.Today's programme is made up of a number of these live streams which are fixed point cameraswith microphones capturing live the bombardment of Gaza, a bombardment with some of the most sophisticated and intense weaponry available in the world,and in this instance being deployed against civilians in a very small space in open prison.







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I have layered these recordings. And I have used various effects to bring out harmonics and resonant frequencies, which I'm allowing to play against each other, creating sounds within the sounds and to an extent rhythms within the sounds.







I'm not doing this as an entertainment, I'm doing this as a way of presenting or representing the horrors that I'm experiencing.







I could attempt to talk a lot more,I could read off endless lists of numbers,the number of children that die per hour,the number of adults that die per hour,the number of people that die per day.I could quote the estimated numbers of people who are buried under the rubbleand I could detail the estimates of the number of those people that are still alive.







Yet I take it back to my experience of one particular news piece in which I saw a young girl, a child,maybe seven years old, eight years old, who was found by rescuers,possibly just neighbours who lived within or nearby the block which was demolished by extraordinary high explosive weapons, weapons probably provided by Britain or America, and which destroyed her home, killing many and trapping many too.







And as this young girl was found and I had to pause the video, I had to sob.







Faced with the reality of one child trapped in that situation, and with knowledge that adults across the world had joined in some kind of consensus and decided to do this to that one child, an act that can be multiplied and extrapolated over time,over decades, can be projected into the future, and as it goes on hopefully I will continue to sob, whenever I come across a reality that I cannot escape from, that I can't step to one side of…. I feel calmed knowing that I am still capable of Compassion, that it is reality there.







So summing up….. for the next hour we're going to be listening to a composition made of live streamed audio recordings from Gazaduring the Israeli bombardment of the civilian population.Multiple streams, creating multiple sounds, building to a crescendo, fading out into some musicby the experimental musician, sound artist Pauline Oliveros,

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Hello, good evening, Sunday night, this is Isotopica, this is me Simon Tyszko, and today is a rather lacuna kind of edition of Isotopica a space where we are in between some things that we are working on and some things that we've recently finished,and today's edition reflects that liminal space between, it's a little bit of this and some bits of that, some nice tunes, some thoughts and some spaces, I hope you enjoy, it's gonna be experimental radio, as ever, it's resonance, it's Isotopica, it's Sunday, I hope you enjoy the sounds we make.and hopefully see you on the other side of these things.















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isotopica broadcast 30 July 2023







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This 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.

This 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, examining and pushing the boundaries of what we might consider a contemporary and avant-garde approach to dub, bringing together recordings of radio static and tuning artefacts with extended echoes, creating a unique sonic space almost free of expected gravity, both weightless, and timeless...... and with a cherry somewhere on the top.







.I hope you'll enjoy an experiment which is a composition created entirely with the snap, the crackle and the pop from vinyl recordings, from the early trip artists, trip hop artists, and the hauntologists who swarm around Mark Fisher and Jacques Derrida. Vinyl Crackle underpins much of that. And this last week was a programme about Transylvanian dub in which I went on to actually play a whole series of records, which is very unusual for Isotopica. I thought I would take it in a entirely different direction, which today is just the echo because an awful lot of this snap, crackle and the pop will be fed through very extended digital delays.Are you ready for this? I hope so. Oviously there's an academic content, having already mentioned Derrida, we've mentioned Mark Fisher, and the list simply goes on and on. So why don't we just sit back, perhaps put our feet up, perhaps not, and see if we enjoy today's edition of snap, crackle and pop here on Isotopica with me, Simon Tyszko.







I'll probably share another word with you all after this.







Creative review sonic award winning dub plate installation via Tomato/Underworld