ARCH
Created by Kaleider
Dramaturg: Tanuja Amarasuriya
touring UK and internationally
Arch is a performance installation, revealing the beauty and flaws of the global systems we imagine, build, and come to rely on.
The audience witness an attempt, by two people, to build a freestanding arch, made two thirds of concrete blocks and one third of ice blocks. A choir of singers accompanies the performance in a continuous, musical vigil, framing Arch with fragility and hope.
This is honestly such a beautiful and profound experience, and such a privilege to be part of this team of awesome collaborators.
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GOOD
filmed by NT Live and available on BBC iplayer
Written by C.P. Taylor
Starring David Tennant, Elliot Levey, Sharon Small
Directed by Dominic Cooke
Assistant Director: Tanuja Amarasuriya
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Doctor Who: audio adventures
Full cast audio adventures, written by Timothy X Atack
Available on download, CD and (sometimes) vinyl. Yes, vinyl.
Tim writes original Doctor Who audio adventures for the official Big Finish range. You can find all his titles here, including for the Ninth Doctor, War Doctor, Fourth Doctor, and Second Doctor. Also many robots, various AI, the occasional Sontaran.
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Albums & EPs
recorded and produced by Timothy X Atack & Tanuja Amarasuriya
Available for £notmuchatall, on Bandcamp
Tim’s a musician all of the time, and Tanuja’s a musician some of the time. Sometimes we make albums from the music composed for our theatre shows. Sometimes we make albums from the music we make randomly. You can find them on Bandcamp.
A Million Tiny Glitches
An album of original songs, written for the dream-pop odyssey theatre show of the same name, that we’ve been trying to get off the ground for a few years.
Proper emosh.
LNK_A EP
A short album of kinda retro electro tunes made entirely out of field recordings made on Sri Lanka. Birds? Sure. Bread vans? Yes of course. Monkeys? You BET. Endless honking traffic? Don’t be daft.
Play it loud for your ears and maybe buy a small copy sure why not.
The Bullet and the Bass Trombone EP
You can also treat your ears to the CD/EP that goes alongside The Bullet And The Bass Trombone. The package includes a set of essays and a CD. If you’d like to buy a copy, drop us an email.
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written by Timothy X Atack
audio drama for BBC Radio 3
also available on BBC Sounds
Tim’s ‘duet for fiction and fact’ is the tale of a hearing Ludwig van Beethoven. It stars Sophie Stone and Peter Capaldi with original music by Lloyd Coleman, associate artist of Paraorchestra. It was pick of the week in Radio Times y’all, how about that?
There’s also a transcript of the drama available here and Sophie’s essay on Beethoven can be found right here.
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Forest 404
written by Timothy X Atack
podcast serial available on BBC Sounds
Tim’s epic sci-fi podcast serial stars Pearl Mackie, Tanya Moodie and Pippa Haywood, and is directed by Becky Ripley. It’s available as a 9-episode podcast box set for you to binge your ears on. The drama is accompanied by a series of non-drama actual-fact talks and isolated soundscapes.
If you’ve known us for a while, you might recognise a whistling bird from way back when. It’s all mixed for headphones. Go listen.
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Breaking theatre is more fun than making theatre
Pervasive Media Studio lunchtime talk by Tanuja Amarasuriya
Friday 21st August at 1pm, on Watershed’s YouTube channel
(and then available to watch online whenever you fancy)
Tanuja talk time! What happens if we talk about difference in artistic, rather than statistic terms? Building on her 2017 article, ‘Wrong kind of asian, wrong kind of work’, Tanuja reflects on how industry conventions can box you in and the value of making art on your own terms. If you want to ask questions, you can join her live on Friday 21st. If you want to fast-forward through the boring bits, it’ll be available online once it’s done.
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Thought Residency
recorded November 2017
available to listen to online
Team MAYK: “Some colleagues in Canada do this thing called Thought Residencies. We talked to them about us trying it out in the UK. Do you want to do a Thought Residency? No pressure.”
Team Sleepdogs: “Er, ok. Why not? Sure.”
We’ve been recording occasional, brief thoughts over November. Check out the sound files here.
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BBC Pod Play: PUB written by Timothy X Atack
available now on BBC iPlayer
BBC Wales commissioned 5 short audio plays, each set in a specific location, to be mixed in 360° sound. Tim set his one down the pub, obvs. It’s directed by Mair Bosworth and stars Alice Lowe and David Hargreaves. It’s only 5 minutes long and it’s available on BBC iPlayer for a little while. Best on headphones. Besty best on headphones, in the pub.
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The brilliant Mayfest Radio got us in to chat music and influences for their Music Is My Radar slot. In between us blathering on, there are some EXCELLENT tunes. I promise. And also some terrible Brazilian chips pop.
It’s here for your ears, on Mixcloud
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And whilst you’ve got your ears in receive mode, Tim’s band Angeltech have beautiful sounds available here.